The British manufacturers companion and callico printers assistant : being a treatise on callico printing in all its branches, theoretical and practical ...

O'Brien, Charles William · 1795 · Printed for the Author; and sold by Hamilton and Co., at The Bust of Shakspeare, Beech-Street, near Finsbury-Square and Vernor and Hood, Birhin-Lane, Cornhill · 1 picture

A 1795 treatise on calico printing by Charles William O'Brien, printed for the author and sold in London, aimed at textile manufacturers and printers working in Britain. The single plate is a dense grid of numbered small repeat patterns, mostly dots, stripes, leaves, and geometric motifs, each cell a ready-made block design a designer could borrow for textile or surface pattern work.

Calico-printing · Printing -- Great Britain · Dyes and dyeing · Dyes and dyeing -- Chemistry · Textile printing

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