Rainbow Making
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An 1853 Household Words article describing a visit to a silk dye-house and a ribbon factory in Coventry. It covers the boiling, bleaching and dyeing of silk (mordants and dyestuffs for particular colours), the weighting of silk with sugar, and the 'clouding box' for dyeing plaid ribbon yarns. It then follows the silk to the steam-powered factory, covering Jacquard loom preparation, pattern 'reading in', multi-ribbon looms, ribbon types, and the economic state of Coventry's ribbon trade and its workers.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1853
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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