Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 451
the other has the pattern which is to be given to thecloth cut into its surface,—the pattern is thus wrought in intaglioupon it. From the deeper portions of the sunken figures holesare bored through the block to the outer surface, where they areenlarged into funnel-shaped tubes. 432 fAPAN: ITS… … Fig. 183.—Printed Dress df a Choi.ie.The circular device is the bad^e of the master whom he serves. surfaces of the plain and figured wood. Pressure is now employedso as to bring the surfaces of the blocks as near together aspossible, when a dye is poured through the funnel-shaped holes,and is thus…
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