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The exhibits of France were also in eleven sections, illustrating in their arrangement, the skill and taste for which the people of that country are distinguished.
The German exhibits were well displayed in eight sections.
From those countries, as well as from Switzerland, Belgium and England, there were collective exhibits of great beauty and interest, consisting of fabrics in silk, wool, cotton, flax, hemp and jute ; and clothing of all descriptions, for both sexes.
No collective exhibit was more interesting than that by the silk manufacturers of Crefeld, Germany. The history of the silk industry of Crefeld is very instructive, and may well be studies by any one about to engage in that branch of manufacture.
The silk manufacturers of Lyons also united in a magnificent display of their fabrics, occupying an entire court of the Palace.
The Macclesfield Chamber of Commerce exhibited a beautiful "Trophy of Silk,” comprising articles peculiar to that place, furnished by nine of its manufacturers.
The most celebrated manufacturers of silk, woollen, linen and dress goods, in France, Germany, Belgium and Great Britain—whose names are well known in this country— exhibited some of their choicest productions.
From Oriental countries there were numerous collections of webs and tissues, chiefly the productions of manual labor according to old usages and methods, distinguished in design and coloring by native taste. These attracted much attention.
There were several exhibits illustrating the processes of manufacture, the silk industry being thus most completely illustrated.
In the United States department there were less than forty exhibits in Group V., and but few of these were from Massachusetts, whose manufacturers could have furnished five times forty contributions to that branch of the Exhibition. It certainly was remarkable that a State which leads all the others in the manufacture of woollen, cotton and worsted goods, as well as the manufacture of boots and shoes, contributed so little to this last and greatest Universal Exhibition. There