FINE DRAWING, in the manufactories

FINE DRAWING, in the manufactories. See RENTING.

The term is particularly used for a rent or hole happening in the dressing or preparing of a piece of cloth, artfully sewed up or mended with silk.

All fine-drawings are reputed defects or blemishes, and ought to be allowed for in the price of the

the piece.—Hence, M. Savary establishes it as a rule, which is certainly founded on natural equity, that every manufacturer mark the fine drawings of his cloths with a piece of packthread tied to the list; to direct the draper to the spot; and that the draper apprise the taylor or other person to whom he sells it of the same, that he may not come to damage in the cutting; there being instances of drapers condemned to take back their cloth, when cut to pieces, for omitting to mention the fine-drawings and other flaws.

On this occasion M. Savary extols the procedure of an English merchant, who sending a piece of cloth damaged in one spot, to his correspondent at Paris, put a piece of gold in the damaged place, to make up the damage.—But as this example is perhaps the only one of its kind, that author recommends it to the merchant or draper to unfold all the pieces entirely as they come to him; to discover the fine-drawings and other flaws, in order to make the clothier accountable for them.