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vii. manufacturing industries.
Swedish Curtain Manufactory) in Gothenburg, with a branch in
Christiania, since the abrogation of the commercial treaty between Sweden and
Norway ("mellanrikslagen"), manufactures so-called thread curtains or
network textiles, white as well as coloured, which have already secured a
firm footing on the market and are, as far as quality is concerned, fully
worthy of comparison with the best obtained from abroad. These goods
are exported as well. There is a Norwegian competitor in the trade
at Bergen, who has had a branch-works at Svartvik, outside Stockholm,
since the abrogation of the commercial treaty between Sweden and Norway.
Room with 500 automatic weaving-lnoms (Claes Johansson & Co., Krokslätt,
Gothenburg).
What is noticeable within this department is the great extension of domestic
handicraft (hemslöjd) in certain districts, which has almost developed into a home
industry. Such is the case more especially in the Län of Älvsborg, viz., in the
neighbourhood of Borås and Ulricehamn, and in the hundreds of Mark, Kind, and
Ås, where the country-people, owing to the indifferent nature of the soil, have turned
from agriculture to weaving. Here, the former extensive cultivation of flax and
the linen industry have completely made way for cotton-weaving. The rich
peasants are the suppliers; i. e., they supply the yarn on credit to their
dependents, who carry on weaving in their homes and afterwards sell to the
suppliers. Both Jacquard and other tapestries, more particularly linen and twill,
undyed and dyed stuffs, are the objects of this home industry, which produces
about a quarter of all our manufactures of cotton stuffs. The goods are strong,
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