An encyclopedia article surveying textile printing from antiquity to the early twentieth century. It covers the history of block printing and the Indiennes, the Jouy works under Oberkampf, and William Morris's designs. It also describes the methods: block printing, roller printing (copper rollers, etching and mill engraving), stenciling, spray printing, discharge printing and resist printing. Two plates of halftone illustrations show American cretonnes, taffetas and reps and European hand-blocked draperies. It ends with a short bibliography.