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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 416 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TARARE , a See also:

town of See also:east-central See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Rhone, on the Turdine, 28 m. W.N.W. of See also:Lyons by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 11,643. It is the centre of a region engaged in the See also:production of muslins, tarletans, See also:embroidery and See also:silk-See also:plush, and in See also:printing, See also:bleaching and other subsidiary processes. Till 1756, when the manufacture of muslins was introduced from See also:Switzerland, the town See also:lay unknown among the Beaujolais mountains. The manufacture of Swiss See also:cotton yarns and crochet embroideries was introduced at the end of the 18th See also:century; at the beginning of the 19th figured stuffs, open-See also:works and zephyrs were first produced. The manufacture of silk-plush for hats and See also:machine-made velvets was set up towards the end of the 19th century. A busy See also:trade is carried on in See also:corn, See also:cattle, See also:linen, See also:hemp, See also:thread and See also:leather.

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