The school possesses a well-equipped practical dye-house and each student has to work out various problems in dyeing on a comparatively large scale. Upwards of five hundred different lots of wool, cotton, silk, mercerized cotton, etc., in the form of yarn, loose stock, and cloth, and varying from one-half pound to forty pounds in each lot, are dyed in all manner of different shades for different purposes. To match selected colors, the student is given excellent practice. We believe a larger amount of practieal work is carried out in the dye-house of the Philadelphia Textile School than in any similar institution eitner in this country or in Europe. BOOKS OF THE YEAR. AMERICAN AND ENGLISH. THE CHEMISTRY AND PRACTICE OF FINISHING; A PRAC By P. Bean, F.C.S., M.Ph.S. and Wm. McCleary. LEATHER DRESSINGS-PARTS I AND II. The Leather Trades Pub. Co., London, 1905. THE SPINNING AND TWISTING OF LONG VEGETABLE Charles Griffin and Company, Ltd., London. J. B. Lipincott Company, Philadelphia, 1905. THE SYNTHETIC DYESTUFFS AND THE INTERMEDIATE Foreign. DIE APPARATEFAERBEREI. Von Dr. Gustav Ullmann. LA SOIE ARTIFICIELLE, CELLULOSE ET FABRICATION DE LA SOIE ARTIFICIELLE. Par M. P. Willems. PRAKTISCHES HANDBUCH DES ZEUGDRUCKS. Supplement-Band zur vierten Auflage des I Bandes und zweiten DIE MIKROSKOPIE DER TECHNISCH VERWENDETEN MIKROSKOPISCHEN UNTERSUCHUNG DER FASER- Bearbeitet von Dr. Franz Ritter v. Hoehnel, K.K., Professor an der II Auflage. A. Hartleben's Verlag, Wien und Leipzig, 1905. FORTSCHRITTE DER TEERFARBENFABRIKATION UND VERWANDTER INDUSTRIEZWEIGE. AN DER HAND REICHS-PATENTE. Dargestellt von Dr. P. Friedlander. Vorstand der chemischen Abteilung des k.k. technologischen Siebenter Teil., 1902-1904. CHIMICA DELLE SOSTANTE COLORANTI. By Dr. Arturo Pellizza. |