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Show DIP WORK OF HIGH ORDER Designs Wrought by Ancient Peruvian Dyers Have Been Given Much Praise by Experts. T,ho ancients of rent, by n curious Coincidence for there could not possibly pos-sibly have been any Intercourse with their contemporaries In India and Kgypt- sis'iu to have used much the same klnn of processes In printing their designs upon the fabrics they niaii'i'"iictured. Hoth Herodotus and Pliny, among early historians, have told M about the cloths of vegetable fiber made by the ancients; but In all likelihood the fabrics of the Peruvians were of even a more remide date. In some respects the methods of today bear strong resemblance to the older practice. The chief difference consists con-sists In the patterns now being engraved en-graved upon copper rollers and several colors being printed at one time, .lust as today the coloring matter of dyes Is not atllxed by merely printing It on the material, but Is secured by means of a substance known as mordant, so did h Peruvians mnUe use of a property prop-erty which caused the dye to adhere ami to withstand test of thousands of years' wear and tear. Kxperls have declared that In the direction of tech nlcal and artistic value the designs In question have no equal. |
