On the cotton fibre and on the manner in which it unites with colouring matter
A technical paper by Glasgow chemist Walter Crum, printed by Bell & Bain in 1863, examining cotton fibre structure and how it takes up dye, addressed to dyers and textile chemists. Lithographed plates show fibres as twisted ribbons and tubes in ink line, madder red and yellow, with grids of cross-sections — usable as abstract linear pattern and organic section motifs.
