The printing of cotton fabrics : comprising calico bleaching, printing and dyeing

Front matter

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ANTONIO SANS ONE

Preface

first of all the calico printing firms who have allowed me to visit their works on several occasions during the last two years ; and, also, the machine makers for information kindly supplied to me, along with some of the diagrams and illustrations which appear in this work. I have tried, also, to illustrate the different styles and colours used in calico printing, and am enabled by the kindness and generosity of several eminent firms to furnish the book with the pattern sheets, which will be found at the end of this work. I have, also, to thank some of the firms already spoken of, and also many gentlemen who have been of much assistance to me in the preparation of this work, and I must not forget the manufacturers of dye stuffs, and their Manchester agents for valuable information and samples supplied to me by them on repeated occasions.

This book is only intended to illustrate the principles of bleaching and printing, with a short notice of the dyeing of cotton cloth, since the dyeing of fabrics generally has been so ably treated in Prof. Hummel’s recent work on the dyeing of textile fabrics. Originally it was only intended to treat of the printing of cotton cloth, but a present of a set of printed patterns of woollen goods from a well-known continental chemist and calico printer, has brought about the insertion of a few of those patterns along with the other prints, and necessitated a short notice of the newest methods of printing woollen cloth.

In the theoretical part of the work the best methods of analysis or testing of the different raw materials have been indicated, and in treating of the different substances formulae have been given of as simple character as possible.

Manchester , March, 1887.

Table Of Contents

RAW MATERIALS:

MORDANTS, ETC 107

INTRODUCTION 176