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 72
repeated washings alternatelyin water and bleaching liquors, until they are sufficiently bleached as beforedescribed. Figs. 5 and 6 show the elevation and ground plan of a bleach-house andmachinery capable of working 8oo pieces of 4 lbs. cloth per day, with thelabour of one man and three boys, from… … lime for twelve hours. They are then withdrawn by the same washingmachine, g, washed, and passed into the second kier, b, where they are boiledfor twelve hours in soda-ash and resin. They are again withdrawn by thesame machine, g, washed, squeezed (see plan at u), and passed over winch, e,and piled…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing
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