Dyeing: comprising the dyeing and bleaching of wool, silk, cotton, flax, hemp, china grass &c. (1888)
Sansone, Antonio · Manchester, Heywood · leaf 170
treated have already lost one-quarter of their original LINEN JUTE, CHINA GRASS, &C. 107 volume. Each carriage is constructed to contain 400 kilosof flax stems, and in twelve hours 2,400 kilos of stems maybe treated by this method in one kier, giving about twotons of retted product. The drying… … carriage, are opened up and separated from each other, andthen placed in a vertical position in the dr3ing apparatus.This is composed of a series of chambers—a, b, c, p, e, com-municating with each other by means of the open space—F, G, H, I, J. The chambers are covered by means of woodencovers—p,…
Dyes and dyeing
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