A practical handbook of dyeing and calico-printing. With eleven page-plates, forty-seven specimens of dyed and printed fabrics, and thirty-eight woodcuts (1874)
Crookes, William, 1832-1919 · London, Longmans, Green · leaf 64
worked. By this system all the cold water, air, &c, is first expelled, by the high-pressure steam, from the goods, which, then almost dry, and heated by the Fig. 3. … steam, are in the best state for receiving benefit from the bowking liquor,-which is admitted boiling, is forced through them, and followed up bythe steam; and throughout the whole of the operation they are subjectedalternately to the action of the steam and the liquor. By this alternatesteaming…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing
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