Calico Printing) Defn: To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
In dyeing and calico printing, any substance employed to fix the colouring matter of dye-stuffs in the fibres of organic bodies, and to give it brilliancy and permanency.
This salt is extensively used in calico printing, and in the preparation of the iodide and other salts of lead.
A style of calico printing, in which white or brightly coloured spots are produced upon a red or dark ground.
The nitrate of bismuth, mixed with solution of tin and tartar, has been employed as a mordant for dyeing lilac and violet in calico printing.
One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.
Next come cotton spinning and weaving, calico printing, yarn-spinning, dyeing and similar textile branches, besides a variety of other industries.
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