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The Calico Print was a newspaper, established in 1882 and published during the heyday of the silver mining camp of Calico, California prior to 1902. The Calico Print was also the name of a monthly, later bi-monthly, periodical of the mid-20th century, and contained "Tales and trails of the desert West."
A calico printer, he lived for some time at Mere Old Hall near Knutsford, Cheshire, [14] where his son John Macleod Campbell Crum was born, and later at Broxton Old Hall, also in Cheshire. [15] Elisabeth Graham Crum, who married William Henry Houldsworth. [16] Margaret Crum who married William Thomson the physicist and engineer, later 1st Baron ...
Tote bag - sometimes made of calico; In the US: Calico – cotton fabric with a small, all-over floral print [15] Muslin – UK: muslin gauze – simple, cheap equal weft and warp plain weave fabric in white, cream or unbleached cotton and/or a very fine, light plain weave cotton fabric; Muslin gauze – the very lightest, most open weave of muslin
In 1892 or 1893, Platt Brothers delivered equipment and key personnel to a new calico print factory in Bangu. Donohoe was recruited by Platt Brothers to work as the Bangu dyeworks foreman. Thomas travelled on the SS Clyde, from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro on 4 May 1894, [1] arriving on 21 May. [12] He left his wife and two young children in ...
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Little is known about his origins, [1] but he was an M. D. He was a partner in the Manchester firm of Taylor and Maxwell, fustian manufacturers, dyers and printer, and was involved with the development of printing machinery for calico in about 1770.
James Thomson went to work for Joseph Peel & Co., calico printers in London, around 1795, and remained there for six years; [3] Joseph Peel was an uncle of Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet. [4] While in London Thomson met William Hyde Wollaston and Humphry Davy. [3]
Calico used to be printed from wooden blocks, was heavily taxed and suffered from labour relation problems. Potter mechanised the process. He became the largest printer of calico in the world. The firm merged with other rival companies to form the Calico Printers' Association in 1899, [5] which in 1948 printed 15,000 miles (24,000 km) of calico ...