num_pages: 568
description: Wearable prints are not only a decorative art form but also the product of a range of complex industrial processes and an economically important commodity. But when did textile printing originate and how can we identify the fabrics inks dyes and printing processes used on surviving historical examples? In Wearable Prints 1760-1860 author Susan Greene surveys the history of wearable printed fabrics which reaches back into the earliest days of the discovery of the delights of selectively patterned cloth and is firmly interwoven with the Industrial Revolution. The bulk of the book is devoted to the process of printing and dyeing. Greene brings together evidence from period publications and manuscripts extant period garments and quilts and scholarship on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chemistry and technology. Making the text come alive Greene includes some 1600 full-color images including a plentiful array of textile samples. Wearable Prints 1760-1860 is a convenient encyclopedic guide written in plain language accessible to even the most casual reader. Historians students costumers quilters designers curators and collectors will find it an essential resource.
language: English
title: Wearable Prints, 1760-1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics
publisher: The Kent State University Press