[1293] Looms of the first kind are seldom capable of weaving above
sixteen pieces at one time: and very rarely eighteen, because
the breadth necessary for that purpose would render them highly
inconvenient. At a ribbon manufactory in the Milanese, there were some
years ago, thirty looms of an excellent construction, each of which
could weave twenty-four pieces together, so that sixty dozen of pieces
were wove by the whole at the same time. See Voyage d’un François par
Italie, i. p. 387. M. Escher, at Zurich, is said to have had a large
ribbon-loom which was driven by water; but the traveller who saw the
work, assured me that it was a machine for winding silk; and this seems
to be probable, from the short account given of it by M. Andreæ, in his
Briefen aus der Schweitz, pp. 49, 50.
[1294] L’Hoggidi overo gl’ingegni non inferiori a’ passati.
[1295] Page 7.
[1296] Page 1191.
[1297] Ibid. p. 2762.
[1298] Von Lersner, Chronica der Stadt Frankfurt, ii. p. 566.
[1299] Relatio Historica semestralis vernalis 1776, Art. 10.
[1300] Hist. of Commerce.
[1301] See this rescript in the Leipsiger Intelligenz-Blattern, 1765,
p. 119.
[1302] Penny Cyclopædia.