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 73
hed at g, again squeezed at/, and dried over the cylinders p. * s^ 56 DYEING AND CALICO PRINTING. The most important modifications of the continuous process of bleachingrecently are those patented by Mr. Barlow in 1866. This inventor combinesin one machine not only the various apparatus required… … several threads passing through the machine at the same time may be dyedin different colours or partly left uncoloured. These machines are, however, not adapted to the bleaching of linen.Linen does not possess the elasticity of cotton, and the strain would eitherpull the cloth narrow or tear it.…
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