Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . of printed cottons, etc., and John Hewson was elected printerto the society, and in this year the first plea was made for a protectivetariflf. About the middle of the eighteenth century a Turkey-red dye workswas established at Rouen, France, by a company of Greeks, and in 1765the French government caused the method of operation to be the end of the eighteenth century a Tur
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . of printed cottons, etc., and John Hewson was elected printerto the society, and in this year the first plea was made for a protectivetariflf. About the middle of the eighteenth century a Turkey-red dye workswas established at Rouen, France, by a company of Greeks, and in 1765the French government caused the method of operation to be the end of the eighteenth century a Turkey-red dyehouse wasestablished at Manchester, England, by a M. Borelle. In 1783, a Frenchmannamed Papillon established a similar plant at Glasgow, and Mr. Wilson,of Ainsworth, established one at Manchester, having obtained the processfrom the Greeks of Smyrna. Papillon was employed by Messrs. DavidDale and George Mcintosh^ and their successors have carried on the businessfor more than three-fourths of a century. In 1803, the process was madepublic, and gradually passed into other countries. The exact date of itsintroduction to America is doubtful, but was probably between 1815 and PLATE X—Printing. 1. Irimitive Hand Printing Filling in. 3. Printing, Twelve Colors, JAMES H LAMB CO. OF THE UNITED STATES 163 1820. This method seemed only applicable to cotton yarn, but in 1810cloth itself was first successfully dyed with this color at the works ofMessrs. Koechlin, in Mulhausen, Germany. In 1775, Edwin Bancroft made public the dyeing value of quercitron,and obtained from the Parliament of England the exclusive right to itsimportation for six years. The use of madder, which, before the introduc-tion of alizarin, in 1868, Was a most valuable dyestuff, appears to be veryancient, having been employed by the ancient Egyptians, Hindoos andPersians. Its first European cultivation was probably in Spain, havingbeen introduced by the Saracens. It was grown in Marseilles in 1287,but not e
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