. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. DYES AND DYEIXG DYES AXD DYEING importance are produced by processes which con- sist essentially in manufacturing the dye in an insoluble form in the goods. Calico-printing. Calico-printing may be considered as local dye- ing. It is the art of producing on woven material a design in color by certain processes, one of which. Fig. 378. Woad (.Isatis tinctoria). a. Lower leaf; 6,
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. DYES AND DYEIXG DYES AXD DYEING importance are produced by processes which con- sist essentially in manufacturing the dye in an insoluble form in the goods. Calico-printing. Calico-printing may be considered as local dye- ing. It is the art of producing on woven material a design in color by certain processes, one of which. Fig. 378. Woad (.Isatis tinctoria). a. Lower leaf; 6, first year leaf; c, mature fruit. Source of a blue dye. is a printing process. The art has been developed from the early painting of cloth in India (in Cali- cut, hence the name " calico ") to the modern print. There is probably no other industry in which so great a combination of artistic, mechanical, chem- ical and technical skill of the highest order is required, and this, too, to produce so cheap a finished product. Formerly the prints were made from wooden blocks cut in relief, there being a set of blocks equal in number to the colors desired if the pattern were small, or, if large, as many for each color as were necessary to make the complete design. This process is known as block printing and is done by hand. For large designs, or for those of more than twenty colors, this method is employed today and to a considerable extent to meet the demand for more artistic goods. The Japanese produce some very beautiful goods by ap- plying the colors with stencils. This method can be used by any one, and very artistic effects can be produced at a trifling expense. In fact, this work should prove most interesting to amateurs, as most elaborate designs may be made. The modern calico-printing machine consists of a large iron cylinder about which copper rollers are mounted. The cylinder is padded and the design is engraved in the copper rollers, each roller being engraved to
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