America's Printed & Painted Fabrics 1600-1900

Pettit, Florence H.

Hastings House, 1970. Hardbound. Grey cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. 256 pp., with 150 bw and 6 color plates. VG/VG. Item #104985
ISBN: 9780803803404

First complete account of all that is known about American fabric printing and printers, from the first one-man shop in Boston in 1712, through the flourishing manufactories of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th. Contents as follows: I. How Do They Print a Fabric? -- The Basic Methods: 1. Direct Printing -- 2. Discharge Printing -- 3. Mordant Dyeing -- 4. Resist Printing or Dyeing -- Hand Printing Processes -- 1. Hand Block Printing -- 2. Stenciling -- 3. Batik -- 4. Seldom-used Hand Processes -- Machine Printing Processes -- 1. Copper-plate Printing -- 2. Roller Printing -- 3. Printing Other Substances -- 4. Warp Printing -- 5. Lithography -- 6. Spray-Painting and Drum Printing -- II. Fabric Decoration Before America -- A Complete History of World Fabric Prints -- III. Jamestown Colony to the Revolution, 1607-1775 -- 1. America's Historical Background -- 2. America's Fabrics -- 3. The First Colonial Fabrics & the Six "First" Printers -- 4. Old Deerfield, Massachusetts -- 5. Some Boston Printers -- 6. Eighteenth Century Elegance -- 7. Blue Resist Prints -- 8. A Mid-Volume Guidepost -- 9. Painted Floor Cloths and Oilcloth -- 10. Wallpaper -- First Cousin to Early Calico -- 11. Fire-Sacks -- 12. Pockets, Kits, and Cases -- 13. Counterpanes and Coverlets -- 14. Fashion Dolls and Other Fancy Furbelows IV. From the Revolution to 1900 -- 1. John Hewson, Esqr., of Philadelphia -- 2. The Road to Independence -- 3. Some Rhode Island Printers -- 4. Cotton -- America's First Industry and Samuel Slater -- 5. The Nineteenth Century Begins -- 6. Fashion Notes, 1800-1850 -- 7. Massachusetts Mills -- 8. Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Esqr., of Delaware -- 9. Theorem Painting -- Elegant Parlor Art -- 10. American Indians -- 11. The Cranston Print Works -- 12. The English Influence -- Peel & Yates -- 13. Painted Window Shades -- 14. A Turbulent Fifty Years, 1850-1900 -- 15. Folk Art, its Life and Death -- 16. Industrialism, Nourishment for a New Set of Tastes -- 17. The Arnold Print Works -- 18. The Gloucester Print Works -- 19. Conclusion.