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Title: Cotton
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: National association of cotton manufacturers
Subjects: Cotton manufacture
Publisher: (s.l. : National Association of Cotton Manufacturers)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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rom India. The ancient craft skill and traditional design have survived a century of machine production. (Collection of the Author) the dye resistir.<g qualities of the thread to produce design by contrast.Warp and weft were independently treated in the same manner, dyedand woven in intricate patterns. The use of a type of stylus wrapped with woolen yarn to holdmolten wax was the predecessor of the little cup of copper leaf usedat a later time in Java in the familiar batik technique. The arts ofresist-dyeing were taught the Javanese by the Buddhist missionariesof the Seventh Century, perhaps even a few centuries before, bytraders; and the Chinese and the Japanese owe their skillful tech-nique in stenciling, dyeing and stamping to European missionariesand traders, Dutch, English and French, who first learned the arts inIndia. There is conclusive evidence that a great part of Japanesesilk design may be traced to the influence of Indian cottons. (11) A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF A GREAT FIBRE
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Tic-dyed head dress, Bogoho Tribe, Philippine Islands. (American Mnscnin of Natural History) (12 J A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF A GREAT FIBRE The power to produce patterns in, comparatively speaking, limitlessrepetitions through these methods, gave India a dominant position inthe textile trade of the world up to the early periods of developmentin England and America and the modification of these crafts intomodern system of production. The arts of the Philippine Islands, that attracted the admirationof Portuguese and Spanish explorers who followed Magellan, provethat the Moros or Mohammedan traders had brought their arts withthem to these Pacific Islands at an early date. The arts of ancientIndia are still carried on by certain of the wilder tribes in our Philip-pine possessions, and owe their origin to the same people who taughtthe great textile peoples of the Far East, the Mediterranean andEurope the application of design and the use of dyes in cotton fabrics. THE ARAB AND COTTON The great m

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