A book of studies in plant form with some suggestions for their application to design (1896)
Lilley, A. E. V, Midgeley, W., joint author · New York : Scribner · leaf 96
- printed upon the wood threadsbefore they are woven into the cotton warp. The colours heremay be unlimited ; massive simple patterns are those mostsuitable. Most fabrics—as silks, cretonnes, muslins, floorcloths—maybe ornamented by printing in coloured dyes, either from blocks. … Fig. 124.—Cretonne (Passion Flower and Goose Grass). which are used for the better materials and give the softer andricher effect, or from copper rollers, which are used for thecheaper sorts of textiles. A system of printing on jute fromindia-rubber rollers, which has artistic possibilities, has…
Decoration and ornament
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