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Title: Textile school catalog, 1915-1916
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Subjects: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum School of Art--School catalogs Philadelphia Museum College of Art--School catalogs Philadelphia College of Art-- School catalogs Philadelphia Colleges of the Arts--School catalogs University of the Arts--School catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Contributing Library: University of the Arts (Philadelphia), University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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A CORNER IN THE POWER WEAVE ROOM. concrete, and has an actual practical value to the student rather thana merely theoretical value serving for purposes of instruction only.Considerable drill and practice are also given in the methods of cal-culating and the intelligent interpretation of results. The objectstaken for anaylsis include the various acids and alkalies, bleachingagents, soaps, oils, mordants, dyestuffs, etc. Water analysis for millpurposes is also given. DYEINGThe dyeing taken up during this year has for its chief purposethe familiarizing of the student with the different effects to be gained 59
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REGULAR COURSE—THIRD YEAR in the compounding of colors and the production of different classesof dyed shades. This naturally leads on to the matching of colors,in which considerable practice is given; and during the latter part ofthe year the student is required to dye the yarn he employs for hiswoven pieces, the shades being matched by the student himself. Theobject of the work is to give the general textile student a comprehen-sive idea of the possibilities and limitations to be met with in bring-ing into actual existence in the finished fabrics the various colorharmonies and combinations which have only a potential existencein the design. FINISHING The preceding years instruction has fitted the student for themore comprehensive treatment which is given the subject in thisyear. He is enabled to grasp more fully the reasons for the variousoperations through which some of the fabrics pass in order that theymay be marketed as this or as that fabric; and he is instructed inthe methods

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