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A cotton fabrics glossary (1914)

Frank P. Bennett & Co · Boston, New York, Frank P. Bennett · leaf 503

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oes may be seen Inalmost any color. The printing ma-chine is capable of printing several COLORS in one design. Calicoes, however, areusually in but two colors, that is, onecolor for ground and one for the fig-ure. The method of placing the colorupon the fabric depends a good dealupon the kind of a… … Fig. 1. printed the color does not take andthe figures show on a solid coloredground. Whenever the ground of thefabric is largely white the figures areprinted in various colors as desired.There are a few instances where thefabric is dyed first and then a printedpattern applied afterward, though…

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