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National Geographic : 1920 Mar
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE FOLDING FINISHED PRINT GOODS: LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS Here the cloth is folded in layers a yard long. Forty yards make a bolt, and this is cut off and folded by hand. It is then ready for market. and a sharp knife scrapes off all except that which is left in the little groove etched for the part in the pattern. As the roller comes into contact with the cloth the color is transferred to its proper place. From roller to roller the cloth passes, until it has received its full assortment of colors, each in its exact place, and with the base color added last. The color must be dried in the cloth, so it is passed over a series of steam-filled drums, then put into iron boxes filled with live steam. But even now your handful of cotton has not become your yard of calico. The cloth must be washed and dried and passed through boxes of hot starch. It is put into a tenter-frame and stretched and dried. This frame is about a hundred feet long, underlaid with steam-pipes. On each side is an endless chain having clips which grip the edges and stretch the cloth to a uniform width. 224
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