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Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)

Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 451

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ves themselves and arrange them upon the cloth in themanner required. Now holding a leaf with a finger of the lefthand, and with a sort of trowel in the right, on which rests aquantity of resist, they so spread this resist that the leaf isburied, as well as the cloth intervening between the… … 434 JAPAN: ITS ARCHITECTURE, that the resist does not get under the edges of the paper.Each leaf, which is just visible through the resist with whiclithe fabric is now covered, is picked up by a needle point ;hence at these particular places the fabric is clean. The resist is now dried, the fabric…

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