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This straightforward discussion of the different ways of dyeing and painting fabric includes in-depth instructions for equipping and running a productive dye shop, with a special section on shop safety and the safe use of chemicals in the workplace. A variety of processes are covered, such as: using resists and discharge pastes, metallic paints, leather dyes, expandable paints, heat transfer printing, marbling, ombre, blueprint and brownprint, stencils,...
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"City of Light tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from 19th-century parlor trick into the foundation of our global communications network. Written for a broad audience by a journalist who has covered the field for twenty years, the books is a lively account of both the people and the ideas behind this revolutionary technology."--Jacket.
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"Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English...these are just some of the colour names of old fabric to fire the imagination. The Dyer's Handbook concerns a unique manuscript from the eighteenth century; a dyers memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for dyes with corresponding colour samples....
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