Japan : its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London : Longmans, Green : New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 454
ired.This pattern he draws with a preparation of indigo, which canreadily be removed from the fabric by washing ; and he not onlygives outline but adds depth, shade, or whatever may enable himto produce a desired effect. Thus, at the outset, the whole pattern is drawn by hand (Fig. ART, AND ART… … Fig. i86.—Painting the Design on the Fabric. After a native drawing. The artist having finished his work hands the fabric to aworkman who has prepared a material of a most tenacious andductile nature—a sort of glutinous bird-lime. This mucousmatter he forms by boiling the finest possible rice-flour…
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