The colour printing of carpet yarns; a useful manual for colour-chemists and textile printers . For example, to get out successfullya single pulley outline of light buff or white, in the midst ofa patch of dark crimson, red, black or similar strong colours,is no easy matter. During the printing and steaming thenarrow outline gets destroyed by the adjacent deep colour,and where a delicate clean outline was expected there appearsa poor blurred suggestion of an outline, if indeed it be notaltogether obliterated. Designs of this nature ought, ifpossible, to be avoided by the tapestry carpet design
The colour printing of carpet yarns; a useful manual for colour-chemists and textile printers . For example, to get out successfullya single pulley outline of light buff or white, in the midst ofa patch of dark crimson, red, black or similar strong colours,is no easy matter. During the printing and steaming thenarrow outline gets destroyed by the adjacent deep colour,and where a delicate clean outline was expected there appearsa poor blurred suggestion of an outline, if indeed it be notaltogether obliterated. Designs of this nature ought, ifpossible, to be avoided by the tapestry carpet designer;but now-a-days manufacturers, to please the merchants, areoften glad to attempt anything and everything, and it sohappens that patterns of such a nature are sometimes takenin hand to print. In such circumstances it will be foundof great assistance in getting out more satisfactory work to 100 THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS. dye all the yarn the light tint previous to printing. Thismethod, which is much used in Germany, shows manyadvantages. A more successful carpet or table-cover is. Fig. 13. lUustrabion of difficult pattern to print successfully by Whytockprocess, owing to the delicacy of outlines. obtained, but it is only the best quality of goods that warrantthe extra expenditure of time and trouble which it of the German works employ it with beautiful results, DYEING THE YAEN. 101 which never could be gained by simply printing on the whiteyarn in the ordinary manner. After the yarn has been dyedin the dye bath the necessary light tint which forms theoutline, it is thoroughly dried and wound upon the drumin the usual way, and printing proceeded with as usual. Itwill be found that the results obtained by this method aremuch superior to those got by printing in the light tint. Theillustration (Fig. 13) represents a tapestry carpet design ofthis difficult class, where the outlines, to make the patterneffectual, must be sharp and clean. In printing such a carp
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