Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1917 — PHOTOGRAPH ON SILK [ARTICLE]

PHOTOGRAPH ON SILK

English Manufacturers Bring Out New Process. A method of printing silk fabrics by color photography, brought out by Messrs. Valette et Feret, of the Manufacture National - des Gobelins, presents results, according to the Textile Mercury of Manchester, England, which appear to be interesting in the sense "that the process makespossible the production on silk fabrics of decorative effects the perfection of which does not seem to have been hitherto attained by printing. The method is borrowed from color photography and,consists in making three successive impressions, blue, yellow and red, from three selected photographic prepared plates. The fabric is rendered sensitive by the mixture of alkaline phenols and diazo sulphites, products which possess the property of giving coloring of light. The precision needed in superposing the three impressions is secured by carrying out the work on a special frame, the fabric having been previously provided with metallic eyelets to avoid tearing it. The development of the colors is accomplished with better regularity by exposure to electric light. The method is recommended by its inventors as more especially applicable in th# treatment of articles de luxe of the sort that can not well be printed by machine. — New York Times. . . .. ...