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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 433
him, expeGing to get more with fome other mafter: they are paid by the tafk. At this
manufactory we met with neither handfome workmanfhip nor magazine; much is
yet to be done ere it become of any confideration. However Mr, Elvius has a fund of
hope.
The fo called Porcelaine manufactory, is avery indifferent manufactory of ware, fimi-
lar to that called Delf, and fituated at Kongfholm. ‘The warehoufe makes a very pretty
figure indeed: a complete fervice for a dozen, in this ware, in the Englith tafte colts
from 30 to 40 rix-dollars. ‘The manufactory occupies a confiderable extent: part of
the clay comes from Upfal, and feveral pieces even receive their firft burning there ;
they ufe likewife clay brought from France and England. ‘The number of workmen
employed is twenty-four, feven of which are painters, and four turners.
Cloth manufactory. We faw that of Mr. Hebbé adjoining the Dannwiken. This is
not the moft confiderable, Mr. Barkins having more than forty looms, Mr. Hebbé no
more than thirteen; each of which produces annually fixteen pieces of cloth, from
eighty to ninety ells in length. ‘The deareft cloth they manufacture is blue; it cofts 3
dollars the ell; fine cloth, in other colours, from 2 dollars, 15 {fkillings, to 8 plotts ;
common cloth from 4 plotts to 7; ftriped woollen cloth from 7! plotts to 8; foldiers
cloth 40 to 42 fkillings: the credit three months. In every manufactory there is a cer-
tain number of looms ufed for making of cloth for the troops on account of the crown:
the cloth is dyed on the premifes. Thofe employed in winding and twifting in the
manufactory earn at moft but 5 or 6 plotts in a week, working very hard: the {pinners
earn a great deal, in gaining aplott. All hands counted, three hundred perfons find em-
ployment here. ‘The fine cloths are fometimes eleven quarters wide, but the common
breadth is nine quarters. The wool is imported from Poland and Holland ; it cofts
five dollars the lifpund, and lofes 15 per cent. in wafhing. Spanifh wool, according to
the current price, (1791,) cofts from 22 to 24 copper-dollars, and lofes 16 to 29 per
cent. on account of its being more carefully wafhed. The wool of the country is at
24, 28, and 32 {killings.
Manufaétory of Colours. For a long time the Englifh carried on a confiderable traf-
fic for mofles, at Gottenburgh, produced in abundance in that part of Sweden: people
were at a lofs to know what ufe they could be put to ; at length it was difcovered, that
they extracted from them colours for dyeing: the Count de Ruuth, then minifter of
finance, refolved on fupplanting the Englifh in this commerce, and enriching his own
country by the acquifition: he in confequence induced the King to make experiments,
which ended in the foundation of the eftablifhment in queftion, entirely upon the royal
account. ‘The greateft part of the mofs called /ichen Tartareus, comes from Marftrand
and its environs: when dry, it is put under a large wheel with ftone edges, after hav-
ing been ground by it into tolerably fmall duft, it is thrown into large wooden tubs,
with lime, urine, and other ingredients which remain a fecret. ‘The mixture remains
in thefe for fix months, during which it is ftirred every day ; by degrees it thickens,
the watery particles evaporate, and it becomes at firft thick as mud, and afterwards of
the confiftence of the marle of grapes; as foon as arrived to this ftate, it is cut into
{mall pieces, and expofed to dry in a large covered apartment. When dried and har-
dened, it is pounded in mortars, reduced to a very fine powder, and packed in cafks.
It is not intended that the fale of it fhall begin until 150,000 pounds weight fhall have
been prepared. _It_is reckoned, it will obtain five rix-dollars 26 killings the lifpund
(eighteen and a half pounds Englifh). A number of experiments have been made with
it on woollen cloths, which have perfectly fucceeded: the fineft colours yet extracted
are a violet, a flaxen grey, (gris de lin,) and a plumb colour (prune de Monfieur).
VOL. Vie 3.K This
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