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2. Calico - Wikipedia

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   Cheesecloth – extremely soft and fine cotton fabric with a very open plain weave; Printed calico was imported into the United States from Lancashire in the 1780s, and here a linguistic separation occurred. While Europe maintained the word calico for the fabric, in the States it was used to refer to the printed design. [11]

3. Chintz - Wikipedia

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   Chintz (/ tʃ ɪ n t s / [1]) is a woodblock printed, painted, stained or glazed calico textile that originated in Golconda (present day Hyderabad, India) in the 16th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The cloth is printed with designs featuring flowers and other patterns in different colours, typically on a light, plain background.

4. Nantong blue calico - Wikipedia

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   Nantong blue calico printing and dyeing has been practiced in most parts of Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China, since the beginning of Qing dynasty. In modern times, blue calico is used to make daily clothes, mosquito nets, pillowcases, or baggage cloth. The blue and white printed calico was first worn by local farmers and fishermen.

5. Roller printing on textiles - Wikipedia

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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.

6. Toile - Wikipedia

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   The French "Toile de Jouy" simply means "cloth from Jouy" in English and describes a type of fabric printing. [4] [5] "Toile de Jouy", sometimes abbreviated to simply "toile", is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a white or off-white background on which is a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as a couple having a picnic by a lake or ...

7. J.L.Stifel and Sons - Wikipedia

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   J.L.Stifel & Sons was an American textile and jeans manufacturing brand which was prominent from 1835 to 1956 and a precursor in indigo-dyed cotton calicos. Smoother than canvas or denim but very resistant, calico earned success in work wear clothing. Typical JL Stifel calico motifs were polka dots, flowers and dotted lines on bandanas and ...