Batik and Other Pattern Dyeing - 8 Books in PORT KENNEDY, Western Australia for sale
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1. Batik and Other Pattern Dyeing by Walter and Ida Strawn Baker written in 1929 with 139 pages. "Textile art is one of the oldest arts known to man. Personal adornment was perhaps the first attempt at expressing beauty. Costume designing and textile industries are still most vital movements in the artistic development of the people. Asia is the great mother of beauty in textile decoration. We do not talk or write about textiles without using the words of her ancient peoples, "Batik" this ancient Asiatic word is one of the oldest crafts of the Orient. In India, Java and Japan the highest technique is reached. These people have made a great art of costuming. Each caste, religion and festival requires its special garment."
2. Application of Dyestuffs: To Textiles, Leather and Other Materials by J. Merritt Matthews written in 1920 with 787 pages. "The present volume has been the result of a comprehensive and more extended development of the author's earlier book entitled "Laboratory Manual of Dyeing and Textile Chemistry." The latter was designed principally as a text-book for students, and necessarily omitted a great deal of matter of more general and practical interest. The present book, while still retaining many of the text-book features in order to adapt it to the needs of the student, has been greatly broadened in its scope so as to appeal to the interest of all those concerned in the application of dyestuffs."
3. A Book on Vegetable Dyes by Ethel Mairet written in 1916 with 168 pages. "A sort of fear or nervousness of bright colour is one of the features of our age, it is especially evident in the things we wear. There is unfortunately good reason for it. We fear bright colour because our modern colours are bad, and they are bad because the tradition of dyeing has been broken."
4. The Dyeing Of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for The Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech written in 1901 with 330 pages. "In writing this little book the author believes he is supplying a want which most Students and Dyers of Cotton Fabrics have felt?that of a small handbook clearly describing the various processes and operations of the great industry of dyeing Cotton."
5. Dyeing Silk, Mixed Silk Fabrics and Artificial Silks by A. Gandswindt written in 1921 with 233 pages. "Based on a practice of more than twenty years as a teacher, and the experience gained thereby, the author has treated all the material dealing with this special branch in a readily comprehensive manner, and thus placed in the hands of the silk dyer a book that will be useful."
6. The Dyeing of Textile Fabrics by J.J. Hummel written in 1896 with 548 pages. "The object of this Manual is to provide the teacher and student of Dyeing with a useful text-book giving exact scientific and practical information."
7. A Manual of Dyeing by the Cassella Color Company written in 1908 with 286 pages. "...as a kind of handy book for the dye-house in pocketbook form giving particulars in a concise manner regarding the most important methods of dyeing. The present Volume II deals with The Dyeing of Wool, Silk, Half-Wool and Half-Silk."
8. The Natural Organic Coloring Matters by Arthur George Perkins written in 1918 with 685 pages. "The present volume has been compiled with the object of giving as complete an account as possible of the properties of the natural colouring matters, including more particularly a discussion of those facts which have led to a determination of their constitutions."
