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Show DID WORK OF HIGH ORDER Designs Wrought by Ancient Peruvian Dyers Have Been Given Much Praise by Experts. Tlio nuclcnts of Peru, by a curious 'Coincidence for thcro could not possibly pos-sibly hnvo been nny Intercourse with their contemporaries In Indln nnd Egypt seem to havo used much tlio snuuv, kind of processes In printing their designs upon tlio fabrics they innnufnctured. llotli Herodotus. iitul , Pliny, among early historians, Imvo told tii nbout tlio cloths of vcgctnblo fiber Hindu by tlio nnclentH; Injt In nil likelihood tint fabrics of tlio Fenivlnns viero.of even u mors reinoto ditto. In omo respects tlio methods of todny bVnr strong rcscmulnnco to tho older practice. Tlio chief dlfferenco constats con-stats In tlio pnttoruK now being on-graved on-graved upon copper rollers nnd several colors being printed nt ono time. Just ns todny tlio coloring mutter of dyes in not nlllxed by merely printing it on the mntcrlnl, but Ih secured by means of n subslnnco known oh inonlnnt, no did tlio Pcruvlnna mnko use of n property prop-erty which caused tlio dya to ndlicro nnd to withstand n test of thousands of years' wenr nnd tear. ' Experts hnvo 4leclnrt.il that In tho direction, of technical tech-nical nnd artistic vriluo tho designs In question hnve no equal. |
