Mixing of spun fibres

Reports by the juries on the subjects in the thirty classes into which the Exhibition was divided

Great Britain. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851,

1852

In yarns made from a mixture of silk and wool (mixed in the carding and preparation), there were samples shown both white and coloured, which, so far as wee were competent to form a judgment, were very good: but as this branch of the worsted trade is comparatively new [1851] (at all events to us). the Jury could not venture to give an opinions as to the relative merits of the different yarns of this class.