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The English Contribution to the Development of Copper‐plate Printing
Author(s) -
Floud P. C.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
journal of the society of dyers and colourists
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1478-4408
pISSN - 0037-9859
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-4408.1960.tb02387.x
Subject(s) - copper , textile , monopoly , art , materials science , history , metallurgy , archaeology , economics , market economy
Copper‐plate printing of textiles was first introduced by Francis Nixon at the Drumcondra works, near Dublin, in 1752, and by 1754 the secret had been transmitted to England. For the next twenty years it remained virtually a monopoly of the Dublin and London printers. An examination is made of the difference between seventeenth century non‐fast copper‐plate printing of maps and handkerchiefs and the copper‐plate printing with fast dyes by Nixon and his contemporaries. Examination of patents enables some description to be given of the development of textile copper‐plate printing presses.