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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 240

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, Persoz gives the following pro-cess:—In two-thirds of a gallon of water dissolve 2 lbs. ofoxalic acid; to the remaining third, add 7^2 lbs. ofcalcined farina, 12]4 lbs. of sulphate of lead, and 1*28 lbs.of sulphuric acid; then mix the whole. When the clothhas been printed with this discharge it… … RESIST AND DISCHARGE. When the object in view is to produce a self-colour, amuch more rapid process is adopted. Pieces of calico,from which all the sizing material has been removed, aremade to pass over a series of rollers a,b,c,d, in the vat, A,

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