Ban-dan′na.
（Fabric.) An India silk, printed in one color with white spots or ornaments made by the resist or the discharging process. Bandannois. In the resist process, the spots are printed with a composition to resist the dye by which the groundcolor is given. Subsequent washing then removes the dye from the spots, the ground-color remaining intact. In the discharging process, the whole handkerchief is dyed of one color, and is then printed in spots with a composition which discharges the dye at those points, so that, in washing, the spots come up white. One mode of making the white spots in bandanna goods is by causing a solution of chlorine to percolate down through the red cloth in points circumscribed and defined by the pressure of leaden patternplates in a hydraulic press, thereby discharging the color in certain places.
