America's fabrics: Origin and history, manufacture, characteristics and uses

Many of America’s fabrics receive their inspirational prints from local color as typified by patterns such as the southern palms, the western life, and America’s flowers and foliage. This group of rayon fabrics, woven and knitted, represents different methods of dyeing and printing. Starting at upper left, counterclockwise, the fabrics and color­ing methods include the following. The taffeta was first dyed yellow and then the pattern was roller printed on by the direct overprinting method. The crepe with the green ground was first dyed and then, by roller printing, the color was discharged. Part of the discharged jtattern was permitted to remain white while other parts were printed in color.