| Show DID WORK OF HIGH ORDER designs grouf wrought ht by ancient peruvian dyers have been given much P raise praise by experts the ancients of peru by ji a curious coincidence for there could not possibly have jeen been any intercourse with their contemporaries in india and egypt seem to have used nuch the same kind of processes in printing their designs upon the fabrics they manufactured both herodotus dotus and ana pliny among early historians have told us about the claths cloths of vegetable filler fiber made by the ancients but in all likelihood the fabrics of the peruvians were of even a more remote date in sonic some respects the methods of today bear strong resemblance to the older practice the alie chief difference consists in the patterns now being engraved upon copper rollers and sc several veral colors being printed at one time just as today the alie coloring matter of dyes Is not affixed by i merely printing it on tit the material but Is secured by means of a substance known as mordant so did the peruvians make use of a property which caused the dye dyc to adhere and to withstand a test of thousands of years wear and tear experts have declared that in tile direction of technical and artistic value the designs in question have no equal |
