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Roller-printed cotton cushion cover panel, 1904, Silver Studio V&A Museum no. CIRC.675–1966 Indigo Blue & White printed cloth, American Printing Company, about 1910. Roller printing, also called cylinder printing or machine printing, on fabrics is a textile printing process patented by Thomas Bell of Scotland in 1783 in an attempt to reduce the cost of the earlier copperplate printing.
In properly printed fabrics the colour is bonded with the fibre, so as to resist washing and friction. Textile printing is related to dyeing but in dyeing properly the whole fabric is uniformly covered with one colour, whereas in printing one or more colours are applied to it in certain parts only, and in sharply defined patterns. [1]
Hudson Cotton Manufacturing Company, also known as Shuford Mills, is a historic textile mill located at Hudson, Caldwell County, North Carolina.It was built in stages between 1904 and 1992, and is a large, one-story, brick (both solid and veneered) building of nearly 180,000 square feet.
Extract is recovered chemically from mixed cotton/wool fabrics. The fleece is shorn in one piece from the sheep. Ideally, the wool is cut as close to the skin as possible to maximise fibre length. Going over the same spot twice produces small fibres that will produce pills in finished fabric, something that skilled shearers are usually able to ...
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The fabric mill in the 1940s. Vitale Barberis Canonico (VBC) is an Italian fabric mill that was established in 1663. [1] It is located in Pratrivero, about 50 miles northeast of Turin in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy. [2] The company has remained a family-owned business for 13 generations. [3]
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