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Dyeing and calico printing (1878)

Calvert, F. (Frederick) Crace', 1819-1873, Stenhouse, John, Groves, Charles Edward, 1841-1920 · Manchester : Palmer & Howe · leaf 158

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tin is separated and fixed as a mordant in thefibre of the cloth. After the fabric has been washed anddried, a strong solution of logwood thickened with starchis printed on it, and it is again dried by passing over steamcylinders. It is now either rolled on a perforated cylinderand submitted to the… … LOGWOOD PURPLE. For the production of blacks the fabric is printed withpyrolignite of iron, exposed to the atmosphere and treatedin a manner similar to that employed for fixing the ironmordant for madder, which has been already described.It is then patfcted in a logwood solution, and the…

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