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Batik and other pattern dyeing

Baker, Walter Davis, Baker, Ida Strawn, 1876- · 1920 · Chicago : Atkinson, Mentzer & company · 18 pictures

Batik and other pattern dyeing is a 1920 Chicago manual by Walter Davis Baker and Ida Strawn Baker, published by Atkinson, Mentzer & company, on resist-dyeing techniques for textile makers. The pictures are halftone and line reproductions of batik panels, wax-resist squares and tiled motifs, with dark ground textures and circular rosette and scroll borders a designer could borrow for textile repeats.

Batik · Dyes and dyeing

Internet Archive · Harold B. Lee Library · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library