Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-04
MAKING WALL PAPER.
HOW IT is PRINTED IN so MANY
COMPLICATED PATTERNS.
The Process Of Blotching I'm the De-
signing ngRocm-Putting tn Design
on the Roliers-Prlnting the
Paper in Colon
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brooklyn Eagel
reporter recently paid visit to large
wallpaper factory, beginning his tour OF in
vestigation in the basement, where twenty
five men were found mixing the colors in bar
rels. All were water colors, and all were
also claimed as harmless by the superintend-
ent. All tints were represented in them, the
most lively being the favorites, as warm,
lively colors will he the fashionable thing in
wall papers this fall. An idea of the extent
of this color mixing business may be guessed
when it is known that the establishment uses
nearly ten tons Of paint a day.
THE PROCESS OF nLoTCHISG.
The "blotching machines" on the fourth
floor of the building are ths ones which first
treat the paper which is going TO be con-
verted into the much ornaynented article
seen on the walls of so many town houses.
A web Of black paper is set IL a reel behind
one Of these machines. The free end OF the
paper on the web is pulled forward and
placed between two cylinders which drag il
into the machine, where a roller, part oil
which is working in color pan" filled with
thin paint, is working. This roller puts q
large quantity of color upon the paper and
set Of fiat brushes, say half II dozen in num-
Der, called jiggers, work rapidly back and
forward at right angles with the course OF
the paper, working this coloring matter in
and spreading it evenly over the surface OF
the paper, so that when the cylinders of the
rear end of the machine drag it out it is
thoroughly painted in water color on one
side
As it issues from the blotching machine a
workman takes the free end Of the paper and
wraps it around a stick, which is carried uI
I'LL l.
After eighteen feet of the paper have run
out these chains pick up another stick which
lies across them and bears paper upon it
This last stick chaseS the first one up and
gains on it till only foot behind, when it
stops gaining and both travel along main
tanning that relative distance, with the pa
per between them iooped down till it nearly
touches the floor, yet not in any danger Of
being squeezed together 50 tbat the paint OF
it shall uch any part other than it is in
tended for A hundred other sticks do pre-
ciseiy as the second one did, and the result i
that there are soon hundred loops of paper
each loop containing eighteen feet The ele-
waited railway of parallel chains on which
the sticks from which the paper is looped
are travelling turns corners of the builiing al
will, and soon the blOtchlng machine has run
tie whole web out, and it is hanging in loops
over a system of steam pipes, which dry it sc
Fast, as it moves along, that it is perfectly
dry before it reaches the further end Of the
chain railway, where boy with reel
winds it back into web form again.
IN THE DESIGNING ROOM.
The designs are 'irst sketched out on paper
and then transferred by an ordinary process.
on the faces of rollers made to suit, the sizs
air inch f,r in,
stance, requiring a roller six inches III
diameter May be the design requires print
ing in twelve colors that is the highest mum
Der ordinarily runJ to do this twelve roller.
would be prepared, each having the desigI
upon it and each of a size exactly equal {,
that of the others. When the rollers are all
prepared the artist will direct skilled work
men who are with him to fix one up to take
the brown, another red, another yellow, and
so on with all the other colors Let the
brown color serve as an example for all
The workman takes it to his bench, where
there is a wise and hammers anl files and
piles of brass made into thick ribbons and
rods. Here he sets ths roller in the grasp OF
the wise and goss to work on it. Every bit
of the design which is to be in brown is traced
out for him and he reproiuces it in relief on
the roller with his bronze wires and rods and
ribbons, which he drives into the hard wood
SO solidly that they stick there as if they had
grown. The bras wire can be given any
ordinary shape necessary by drawing it by
machinery through hole OF corresponding
shape in steel bar. This IS the way that
the roller, which will print In brown, is first
fitted up. When 1t Is finished 1t bears on 1T
face, in raised brass, fragments OF leaves
and parts of birds and ears of wheat and lit
tie and apparently unnecessary and unshaped
points of metal, all OF which at the proper
place and time will put the brown colorine
and shading in exactly the place where the
designer wants it to go
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works upxarI from a color pan in which the
coloring matter to be used on the particular
parts of the design carried on the roller il