The principles and practice of textile printing (1912)
Knecht, Edmund, 1861-1925 · London : C. Griffin & Co. · leaf 201
TREATMENT OF GOODS AFTER PRINTING. 165 motion, whereby the cloth is made to travel from side to side continually during the whole time that it is passing between the bowls.! In Birch’s “squeezer” the plain pressure bowls are replaced by grooved rollers. The cloth is compressed in the narrow grooves… … printed and dyed colours would “mark off” on the white ground and on each other if passed in the rope state between pressure bowls. (9) SOAPING, Soaping is another important operation connected with the final cleansing of dyed and printed goods. Its object is twofold: (1) to clear the white…
Textile printing · Textile printing machines · Dyes and dyeing
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