Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods . t their »guinees«or blue stuffs and rub these with shells (see notep. 6) the fabric being previously coated or stiffenedwith ricewater, wax and slightly perfumed. (Fig 70,p. 214, taparka.) This very primitive kind ot glazing machineconstitutes a piece of family furniture and is generallyadorned with white, red and black designs. (1) The Chinese also glaze their cloths and theirmanner of procedure, excessively simple, has a great (1) See Catalogue of French colonies at the Exhibition of p. 139. 214 FINI
Elementary treatise on the finishing of white, dyed, and printed cotton goods . t their »guinees«or blue stuffs and rub these with shells (see notep. 6) the fabric being previously coated or stiffenedwith ricewater, wax and slightly perfumed. (Fig 70,p. 214, taparka.) This very primitive kind ot glazing machineconstitutes a piece of family furniture and is generallyadorned with white, red and black designs. (1) The Chinese also glaze their cloths and theirmanner of procedure, excessively simple, has a great (1) See Catalogue of French colonies at the Exhibition of p. 139. 214 FINISHING IN GENERAL. resemblance to the German »mangle«. There isa small model of one of these glazing machinesat the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in was shown in the Chinese section in the Parisuniversal exhibition held in 1878. The fabric rolled by hand upon a woodenroller is placed on a hard and level platform, tworollers are placed beside each other a few inchesapart, then a large block of wood which resemblessomewhat a small ship is placed above, that is,. Fig. 70. Taparka. the top is horizontal and the bottom forms an arcof a circle, a workman places himself on this blockand holding by his hands to a bar fixed in thewall he makes the block slip with his feet bypressing upon one or the other extremity, in thisway a sort of to and fro movement is made, whichacts upon the rollers and carries them along byfriction. This movement repeated a number of timesgives a certain lustre to the fabric. The simplest calender consists of two rollersor cylinders, one of which is metal and the MACHINES EMPLOYED IN FINISHING. 215 other paper. (We shall return later on to themethod of making paper bowls and keepingsame in repair.) By means of screws, levers pressure is given to these bowls between whichthe fabric passes and the fibres thus become ordinary finishing calander called »cylinder«on the continent does not glaze; calanders mayhave from two to sev
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