Calico Printing
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An encyclopedia article describing calico printing, the impressing of cotton, wool or silk fabrics with colored patterns using mordants and dyes. It covers the preparatory steps of singeing and bleaching, the four printing methods (hand blocks, machine blocks/Perrotine, copper plates, copper cylinders), and the five or six styles: mordant, discharge, resist, steam, spirit and pigment. It also touches on ancient Egyptian and Indian practice and compares English and French industry in 1876.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1876
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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