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Print′ed Car′pet.

A carpet dyed or printed in colors. By one process, the carpet, after weaving in undyed colors, is printed in the same manner as calico.

Another mode is to dye the yarns in bands or sections, which are adjusted and proportioned to their future position in the fabric.

Whytock's Brussels carpet (English) was designed to save woolen material by substituting a party-colored woolen yarn for the five yarns of various colors which usually accompany the linen warp in Brussels carpet (which see). The yarn is dyed of the requisite color at different places. The succession of colors is determined by a design-paper containing the pattern, ruled with squares, the lines being numbered along the top and down the length, and containing the entire figure of the pattern. The breadth of the band of color on the yarns and their due succession are determined thereby. The weaving is conducted in the manner adopted with velvet, without the complicated adjuncts incident to figure weaving.

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