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
These are not less important than numerous. There are at least forty of them in various parts of the empire. Belonging to the foundling-hospital at Mosco is also a silk-stocking manufactory. The oldest and still the most important and best constituted is that of M. Lazarof in the village Frenova, sixty versts from Mosco. It has generally 110 frames at work, with 500 workmen, and works up about 200 pood of raw silk per annum. The wages of the people alone come to 1500 rubles a month. It has three filatories, each 640 reels, which are set in motion by a water-wheel; and besides a small filatory, turned by men. Here are made velvets, atlasses, gros-detours, taffety, gold and silver tissues, peruvians, brocades, and various kinds of fashionable stuffs, and especially very fine hangings like those of Lyons. Of the latter upwards of 10,000 arshines were put up in the new palace of the late empress at Mosco, which are of uncommon elegance. For the peruvians a loom is kept, which has only one stool and a cylinder, and the fashion is given to the stuffs by means of pegs. A man can weave five arshines in a day at it. Here, as well as at several other manufactories at Mosco and Yaroslof, is likewise a machine at which several ribbons can be wove at the same time. - These manufactories work up persian, italian, bukharian, chinese, and some russian silk, of which they make taffety, chalons, damask, gros-de-tour, velvet, stuffs, stockings, cloths, hangings, and various kinds of half silks.
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