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Dyeing and calico printing : including an account of the most recent improvements in the manufacture and use of aniline colours : illustrated with wood engravings and numerous specimens of printed and dyed fabrics (1876)

Crace-Calvert, F. (Frederick), 1819-1873, Stenhouse, John, 1809-1880, Groves, Charles Edward, 1841-1920 · Manchester : Palmer & Howe ; New York : J. Wiley and Son · leaf 113

An illustration from Dyeing and calico printing : including an account of the most recent improvements in the manufacture and use of aniline colours : illustrated with wood engravings and numerous specimens of printed and dyed fabrics, 1876, leaf 113
ey are placed in troughs inwhich a copper roller dips, having engraved upon it thedesign or pattern to be printed. The excess of mordant isremoved as it leaves the solution by means of a sharpblade of steel, gun metal, or German silver, called adoctor, leaving the mordant on the engraved parts… … Fig. I. By an ingenious arrangement several rollers can bemounted in the machine (as many as twenty have beenused), so that a piece may receive successively mordantsfor different colours and of various strengths, which after-wards produce the various tints and shades which the PRINTING MORDANTS. 77…

Crace-Calvert, F. (Frederick), 1819-1873 · Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing · Textile printing · Coal-tar colors

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