JOYCE STOREY - The Thames and Hudson Manuals of Dyes and Fabrics

London England, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1978. 1st Paperback Edition, Binding: Soft Cover, Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0500680167 Paperback Paperback. The Thames and Hudson Manual of Dyes and Fabrics. Foxing to end inside covers. Slight crease to corner front cover. Written for the textile design student, this book covers the whole wide and complex subject of the chemical aspects of textile printing: fibres and fabrics; preparation of the cloth for printing; dyes and thickening agents; special printing techniques; cloth finishing and colour-fastness testing. Each of the subjects dealt with is highly specialized, taking one into the fields of chemistry and chemical technoloty where great advances have been made in the last 40 years, and are still being made. The textile designer and design student are little more than laymen in this world; this book will help them greatly in reaching a working understanding of it. With 121 Illustration in colour and black-and-white. 192 pp.