As adjuncts to the articles above described, and always found in connection with them, must be mentioned needles for plain and machine sewing ; thimbles, pins, hooks, shuttles, &e., for knitting, netting, orochet, tatting, and other fancy-work purposes; hair-pina, combs of every variety, metallic ornaments, and an endless catalogue of trifles, changing their appearance, but not their use, every season. These articles are produced in metal, ivory, bona, and wood, and in a variety of fancy forma. Redditeh maintains its pre-eminence aa the centre of production for needles of all descrip tions, whilst Birmingham manufactures nearly all the rest of tha articles named.
Another class of goods that, though kindred, properly speaking form a distinct branch, but are often found in otmnection with the preceding, are upholsterer's amallwares, which inelude fringes in eilk, worsted, and cotton, for eornices, hangings, and curtains ; plain, knotted, balled, and otherwise ornamented. These are made in various widths, according to intended use or requirement. Curtain borderings, gymps, cords, bell-ropes, bands, loops, laces, bindings, chair- and ladder-webs, blind lines and tassels, ottoman- and pillow-tassels, chair-gymps, plain and waved : these aro made in ailk, worsted, cotton, and jute. Appertaining to them are ornamental buttons, plain, covered, and gilt, fancy-gilt nails, rings, hooka, pins, &e. The trimmings are chiefly made in London, Man chester, Leicester, and Coventry ; and the metallic articles in Birmingham.
The fancy department of a emallware establishment is made to include a lorgr asaortment of articles in many respects quite incongruous, but which are usually thus grouped because of their small importance and litnited demand not warranting any other arrangement. These include per
fumes (see pp. 1523-32), fancy soaps (see Soap), pomades, hair-, tooth-, and nail-brushes, and other toilet requisites. Small bags, satchels, glove-boxes, laandkerchief-cases, purses, jewel-cases, trinket boxes, jet and vulcanite ware, and the innumerable small things denominated articles de Paris, coming from that city and other Continental centres of produotion of fancy ware's. To these have latterly been added kindred classes of articles coming from Easter n countries, India, China, and Japan.
It will be obvious that the foregoing is only an inadequate representation of the numberless trifling adjuncts to our necessaries or luxuries, which the growing wealth and refinement of the age have called, and are still calling into existence, and which, for want of more alear and definite means of classification, are being grouped under or attached to a division of trade that has hitherto been clearly defined and widely known as the " smallware trade." To make a complete enumeration of the additions that have occurred would require a volume. The principle of change of which these articles are the outcome is still active, and its operations in the future will continuously lead up to new developments in the products of industry, new groupings of the objects of merchandize, and new methods of conducting business. R. M.