CALICO-PRINTING 



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in rolls of about 40 pieces by a machine called a candroy, which winds them on the 

 wooden beam which fits in at the back of the printing-machine ; the cloth during the 

 operation of winding becomes stretched laterally quite smooth, by the aid of one or two 

 grooved stretching bars, as described in fig. 347, a due degree of strain being kept on the 

 piece by its passing under and over several plain wooden bars, and to the axis of the 



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wooden beam which receives the pieces being suspended weights which keep it forcibly 

 in contact with the wooden drum which turns it by friction. In this machine the ends 

 of the axis of the beam pass through slots, which allow it to rise as the pieces become 

 wound on, and the diameter consequently increases. If fewer pieces than 40 are to be 

 printed in one pattern or colouring, it is usual to stitch a few yards of old cloth 

 between two pieces where the change is intended to be made ; by this means the 



