XXVI. Linen-Manufactories s. 331-332 (View of the Russian Empire. Improving Industry.)

View of the Russian Empire, During the Reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Eighteenth Century.
By William Tooke, F. R. S.
Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the Free Economical Society at St. Petersburg. In three volumes. Vol. III.
The Third Edition.
Dublin: Printed by P. Wogan, No. 23, Old-Bridge.
1801

¹However, a cambrick manufactory was set up at Yamburg at the expence of the late empress. It employed the flax of the country, and the specimens which I have seen of it, says Mr. Albaum, were equal to the best Flemish cambrick; but it is astonishingly difficult to accustom the girls and the women to fine spinning. All the ipecies that have been hitherto made there are consumed by the court alone; none is sold.

² Kilburger von Russ. handel.These are very numerous, and fome of them great and important. They generally confine themselves to coarse, and for the most part striped linens; next to these, table-cloths cloths, and extremely fine ones, rich napkins, much printed linen, naboika, &c. fine linen but very little, and cambrick not at all¹. The finest and best Russian linen, which may be compared with the Silesian and Warensdorf, comes from the government of Archangel, and is called gorodskoi polotno; it is likewise as broad as the foreign, but by far not fo finely bleached and got up. Besides, tolerably fine linen is made by the boors in several other parts, as at Liskova on the Volga, but not above half an arshine wide, though Peter I. so long ago as 1718, ordered that all linen should be woven as broad as the foreign. - In 1764 the export of Russia linen was about 30,000 arshines²; but in the year 1784 of various sorts greatly exceeded 3 millions of arshines, and from 1758 to 1778, in twenty years 260,909,180¼ arshines. In the several parts of the empire are 64 linen manufactories.