IT is well known that many of our countrymen, and still more among the female sex, resort to calico, in preference to the Irish linen, which has long been almost, generally used in the manufacture of the under garments. The objections to calico are, t...
IT is well known that many of our countrymen, and still more among the female sex, resort to calico, in preference to the Irish linen, which has long been almost, generally used in the manufacture of the under garments. The objections to calico are, that its texture is not sufficiently durable, and that its colour will not remain tolerably good even while it lasts. Mr. Lowe, it should seem, has taken advantage of the experiments of the illustrious Fourcroy, and has produced a fabric, which he calls "British shirting cloth," made from a mixture of cotton and flax, which is said by those who have given it ample trial, to be equally strong with the Irish linen, and to wash as well as that substance.