Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 465
alf an inch in heightcompletely and regularly coverthe fabric, while in other casesthe tufts are but small and arearranged into patterns. Common cotton cloths arealso treated in a similar manner,only here the tufts are large ;but by the stretching of thefabric after the dyeing is com-pleted… … Fig. 196.—Cotton Fabric figured pvTyeing and Dveing. ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 449 in this manner are amongst the most beautiful and dainty of fabrics.But what the Japanese do by hand we could achieve by the aidof machines ; and it surely would not be very difficult to bindthe fabric into tufts by…
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