. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. r principal methods are: (1) Direct printing from blocks, plates oi rollers. (2) Mordant printing. (3) Resist printing. (4) Discharge printing. The first method actually deijosits the colours. The secondleaves mordants that afterwards in the dye pot make the dye takewhere the mordant has been printed. Compare Plinys de
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. r principal methods are: (1) Direct printing from blocks, plates oi rollers. (2) Mordant printing. (3) Resist printing. (4) Discharge printing. The first method actually deijosits the colours. The secondleaves mordants that afterwards in the dye pot make the dye takewhere the mordant has been printed. Compare Plinys description ofmordant painting. The third method leaves resists that prevent thedye from taking where they are applied. The fourth method depositsacids or alkalies that eat away the coloin- where they have been Rabbit, on Plate XXVIII, was made by discharge printing ona cloth previously dyed blue. Plate XXX shows an extreme example of fineness of detailand exquisite blending of colour. Indeed, the result looks more likepainting than like printing, except for its accentuation of , from the engra\ers point of view, nothing better could bedone. The plates are ancient ones from Miilhausen, and the modernprinting with them was done in France. 351. (1) African .Marigold
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