oddy.--=Index.=

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=THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS.= A Useful Manual for Colour
Chemists and Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Seventeen
Illustrations. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s. Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

=Contents.=

Chapters I., Structure and Constitution of Wool Fibre.--II., Yarn
Scouring.--III., Scouring Materials.--IV., Water for Scouring.--V.,
Bleaching Carpet Yarns.--VI., Colour Making for Yarn Printing.--VII.,
Colour Printing Pastes.--VIII., Colour Recipes for Yarn Printing.--IX.,
Science of Colour Mixing.--X., Matching of Colours.--XI., "Hank"
Printing.--XII., Printing Tapestry Carpet Yarns.--XIII., Yarn
Printing.--XIV., Steaming Printed Yarns.--XV., Washing of Steamed
Yarns.--XVI., Aniline Colours Suitable for Yarn Printing.--XVII.,
Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn Printing.--Appendix.

=Press Opinions.=

"The book is worthy the attention of the trade."--_Worcester
Herald._

"The treatise is arranged with great care, and follows the processes
described in a manner at once clear and convincing."--_Glasgow
Record._

"A most useful manual dealing in an intelligible and interesting
manner with the colour printing of carpet yarns."--_Kidderminster
Times._

"An eminent expert himself, the author has evidently strained every
effort in order to make his work the standard guide of its
class."--_Leicester Post._

"The book, which is admirably printed and illustrated, should fulfil
the need of a practical guide in the colour printing of carpet
yarns.--_Nottingham Express._

"The subject is very exhaustively treated in all its branches....
The work, which is very well illustrated with designs, machines, and
wool fibres, will be a useful addition to our textile
literature."--_Northern Whig._

"It gives an account of its subject which is both valuable and
instructive in itself, and likely to be all the more welcome because
books dealing with textile fabrics usually have little or nothing to
say about this way of decorating them."--_Scotsman._

"The work shows a thorough grasp of the leading characteristics as
well as the minutiae of the industry, and gives a lucid description
of its chief departments.... As a text-book in technical schools
where this branch of industrial education is