ing, painting, lectures on
fabrics, elements of weaving and machinery used, and original design
and practical work.

The distribution of textile schools is shown in the following table.

----------------------+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----------------------
| Superior Textile
|
| | Secondary Weaving
| |
| | | Primary Weaving
| | |
| | | | Weaving, Knitting and Trimming
| | | |
| | | | | Spinning, Weaving and Knitting
STATE | | | | |
| | | | | | Spinning and Weaving
| | | | | |
| | | | | | | Primary Knitting
| | | | | | |
----------------------+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----------------------
Alsace-Lorraine | | | | | | 1 |
Bavaria | | 3 | | | | |
Hesse | | 1 | | | | |
Prussia | 8 | 8 | 22 | | | |
Reuss-Greitz | | 1 | | | | |
Reuss-Schleitz | | 1 | | | | |
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | | | | | | | 1
Saxony | | | | 27 | | |
Wurttemberg | | | | | 1 | |
----------------------+---+---+----+----+---+---+-----------------------

The Prussian superior textile schools are located as follows:

Aix-la-Chappelle
Bremen
Berlin
Crefeld
Cottbus
Muelheim-on-Rhine
Muenchen-Gladbach
Sorau

The Berlin textile schools may be taken as fairly representing the
higher and more completely equipped institutions of this class. The age
of admission is sixteen years, a secondary education being necessary to
entrance. Several courses are offered as follows:

knitting, one year;
weaving, one and one-half years;
designing, two years;
passementerie making, one year;
dyeing, one year;
embroidery, one-fourth year.

There are day, evening and Sunday classes. The accompanying table shows
the subjects taught in each course and the number of hours given to each
subject, reckoned on the basis of the entire length of course.

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