Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . white cottoncloth fixed to unroll and pass imder the stencil, held stationary bythe heavy weight. To print, the stencil was raised the clothbrought to place under it. The paste was then deftly spread with apaddle over the surface and thus upon the cloth beneath whereverexposed through the openings in the stencil. This completes theprinting of the pattern on one section of the bolt of cloth. The CALICO PRINTING 111 free end of the stencil is then raised, the cloth passed along theproper distance by hand and t
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . white cottoncloth fixed to unroll and pass imder the stencil, held stationary bythe heavy weight. To print, the stencil was raised the clothbrought to place under it. The paste was then deftly spread with apaddle over the surface and thus upon the cloth beneath whereverexposed through the openings in the stencil. This completes theprinting of the pattern on one section of the bolt of cloth. The CALICO PRINTING 111 free end of the stencil is then raised, the cloth passed along theproper distance by hand and the stencil dropped in place for thenext application. The paste is permitted to dry upon the clothand when the bolt has been dipped into the blue dye the portionsprotected by the paste remain white. In this simple manner hasthe printing of calico been done for centuries for the garmentsof millions of children. From the ceiling of the drying-room hundreds of stencils bearing different patterns. Inour great calico mills, printing hundreds of yards per minute, the. Fig. 51. - Stone mill in common use for grinding beans and various kinds of grain. mechanics and the chemistry differ from this primitive methodonly in detail of application and in dispatch, not in fundamentalprinciple. In almost any direction we travelled outside the city, in thepleasant mornings when the air was still, the laying of warp forcotton cloth could be seen, to be woven later in the country saw this work in progress many times and in many places inthe early morning, usually along some roadside or open place, asseen in Fig. 52, but never later in the day. When the warp is laideach will be rolled upon its stretcher and removed to the houseto be woven. 112 SOME CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE In many places in Kiangsu province batteries of the large dyepits were seen sunk in the fields and lined with cement. Thesewere 6 to 8 feet in diameter and 4 to 5 feet deep. In one case therewere nine pits i
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