Designing - Scotch Tweeds
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Two pages from The Textile Mercury, 7 December 1889, opening with a 'Designing' column on Scotch tweeds. It explains the principle of colouring tweeds (neutral blends for the general stripe or check form, with a few threads of stronger colour for character) and gives warp and weft colour sequences, reed and pick counts for Design II and a design for lustre goods. The remaining text covers dyeing recipes (fawn, olive, green, red, ponceau), a note on detecting quebracho extract, short notes on sapan wood, flax and gallamine blue, and a review of a German garment-dyeing book.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1889
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
- Archive notes
- digital photograph.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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