The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-04-18

sired color. This grade Of cloth
is known as cambria" or tint
and until recently there has been
no Improvement either in this grade
Of cloth or in the method of making
it.
Manufacturing Methods
Al board. $50 feet in length is
suspended from the ceiling by a
series of rods and pulleys in such
a manner that it may be moved
across the width OF the room. .Paral-
lei to and suspended from this board
by hooks is a second board OF
equal length. The distance between
the hooks determines the width
Of the material being made. End
pieces connecting the ends Of these
two boards are then inserted: the
whole constituting rectangular
frame, $50 feet long by the width
OF the material desired. A roll OF
cotton OF the required dimension Is
then glued to this frame and a. glue
sizing applied to the cotton with
hand brushes. This sizing is per-
nitted to dry overnight and the fol-
lowing day a coat of linseed oil
paint is applied in precisely the
same manner. After the paint has
been permitted to dry the material
is cut from the frame, rolled, la
belled and shipped to the trade.
There have been many different
grades Of cloth manufactured since
this first one, but always with one
idea-to make something cheaper
in price. Consequently, we have a
grade known as hand made
Opaque" machine made Opaque
and water COLOR These four
grades constitute the so-called paint
ed shade cloths and the price for
the same is in accordance with the
way they are listed, the cambria"
or flint cloth being the most ex-
pensive and the water color" the
cheapest.
Grades of Standings.
Then there is the Holland grade
In price and presumably in quality,
they range with flat finish (which
is one manufacturers trade name)
being the cheapest; next comes
Anchor and Albert, both OF these
being the same price; then Ions
dale and sunfast, both OF these also
priced the same: and the last and
highest is imported Scotch Holland.
The cheaper cloths Of this Hol-
land grade have q cheaper cotton
base, and clay and flour for filler,
whereas the better grades have a
better cotton in proportion to their
price and use starch and flour for
their filler. There is one exception
to this, as one manufacturer mas
very gluey substance mixed in.
The Holland manufacturers depend
on friction collanders to generate q
body for the cloth and also to give
it the high polish and more pleasing
appearance. The dictionary defini-
ton of the word Holland" Is a
fine old linen, but this Is not the
case in the manufacture Of so-called
Holland, as there is not and there
has never been as far back as
present day manufacturers can
trace, a yard of linen used as a
base for making shade cloth. An
other misnomer used in connection
with the shade cloth industry con-
Germs the Opaque brand and grade
of shade cloth, but it is interesting
to learn that the lighter colored
materials in the opaque grade are
not Opaque. but translucent.
The third grade Of shade cloth Is
waterproof material. This is COM
posed Of a cotton base, but is
coated with a cellulose waterproof
compound, which forms a homo
geneous mass with the cotton base.
This special treatment. therefore
adds higher tensile strength, greater
wear resistance, and actually pro-
tects the cotton foundation from
abrasion throughout the life Of the
shade. It makes it waterproof and
washable with ordinary soap and
water, and in cleaning 1t, you do not
rob the material of any part OF its
life or it's strength as Is the case
with other shade cloths, so that
the washing OF the shades can be
done repeatedly II and when de-
sired. The edges may be straight
cut, side helnming not being neces-