[Oslib-devel] white and the other

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Loyed in the working districts to give out the work to the sewers, from
whom they are again returned into the same department when sewed. We see
them lying heaped in every direction, so saturated with dirt, that the
pattern is hardly distinguishable from the muslin, looking and smelling
as if no purative process could ever render them clean and sweet. The
interval which elapses between the goods leaving the green warehouse and
returning to it varies, with the nature of the goods, from a fortnight
to six months; although occasionally pieces remain out much longer, and
sometimes drop in after the lapse of years; while a per-centage are
never returned at all, a loss which constitutes an item in the cost of
the remainder. About three-quarters, at least, of all the embroidery is
worked in Ireland; the remaining quarter being sewed in the
south-western counties of Scotland. In Ireland, the sewing districts, at
first confined to a very limited space in the neighbourhood of
Donaghadee, have gradually spread, until the whole north, and even a
portion of the western wilds of Connaught, have been covered with the
agents of the Scotch and Irish manufacturers. There is every prospect
that their extension will not stop here. It is requisite that the work
should be performed at a very small cost; and from the position and
habits of the Irish, they are able to work cheaper than the Scotch. The
nature of the employment is also