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The Story of Ramie: From Seed to Finished Garment
Select digitized items from the outdoor exhibition, The Story of Ramie: From Seed to Finished Garment, on display from April 2024 to October 2024.
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6 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment
- Circa 1820 – 1870
…A description of the steps in Ramie cloth production written to accompany a five-volume, brocade-bound …The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. …
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 3
- Circa 1820 – 1870
…The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection …accompanied by a transcription of hand-written text, describing the steps in Ramie cloth production. These works are part of a long lineage of works by…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 1
- Circa 1820 – 1870
…The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection …accompanied by a transcription of hand-written text, describing the steps in Ramie cloth production. These works are part of a long lineage of works by…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 5
- Circa 1820 – 1870
…The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection …accompanied by a transcription of hand-written text, describing the steps in Ramie cloth production. These works are part of a long lineage of works by…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 2
- Circa 1820 – 1870
…The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection …accompanied by a transcription of hand-written text, describing the steps in Ramie cloth production. These works are part of a long lineage of works by…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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15 items
The Story of Ramie From Seed to Finished Garment Book 4
- Circa 1820 – 1870
…The watercolors show, in chronological order, the process of producing Ramie cloth, a silk-like fabric, in China during the 1820s. The collection …accompanied by a transcription of hand-written text, describing the steps in Ramie cloth production. These works are part of a long lineage of works by…
- Artist Studio of Sunqua
- Subject Art, Chinese, Handmade paper, Ramie, Textile crafts, Textile fabrics
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Edelstein Collection
This collection consists of decorative reliefs and cameos of notable men in science including Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), James Watt (1736-1819), and Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779-1848). The highlight of this collection…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 4
- 2005 (Winter)
… image is from a series of 60 pith-paper watercolors in The Story of Ramie, given to CHF Collections by Sidney and Mildred Edelstein. Though less … …By Marjorie Gapp The Subject of the Paintings: Ramie Fiber and Its Production Ramie cloth production as portrayed in the…
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Figure 14. Impregnating Machine [Gas mantle manufacture]
- 1915
…ie At aig Fic. 14.—Impregnating Machine, ;’5 Actual Size. Formulz for ramie mantles are given in columns 1 to 4, the latter being a stronger solution …impregnation varies from about two minutes, in the case of cotton and ramie mantles, to about five hours in the case of certain artificial silk …lowered. After impregnation, superfluous liquid is removed by passing the ramie and cotton mantles through a wringing machine, the rollers of which…
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Figure 10. Collodion before Burning Off. Figure 11. Collodion after Burning Off. Figure 12. Washing Machine.
- 1915
…12 is an illustration of a washing machine used to cleanse cotton and ramie webs from mineral matter and fatty substances. The webs are washed …
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Figure 19. Movable Drying Crate for 500 Mantles
- 1915
…carried out in a manner differing somewhat from that already described for ramie or cotton. When nitro-cellulose is used, the impregnated fibre has …next washed in distilled water, and finished in the same manner as are ramie mantles. Many patents have been granted for pro- cesses for the conversion…
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Figure 18. Collodionising Bath
- 1915
…impregnation, etc. The following figures may serve as an illustration—“ramie stocking” for a “C” size upright mantle 20 cm. long and ro to 14 cm…
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Figure 20. Machine for Trimming Upright Mantles
- 1915
… illuminating power prepared by the ordinary process. When cotton or ramie 1s employed in this process, in place of artificial silk, the fabric…
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The Dyeing of Cotton and Other Vegetable Fibres with the Dyestuffs of Leopold Cassella & Co.
- 1904
…Pieces. Hosiery (Stockings). Linen Yarn, Linen and Half-Linen goods. Ramie, Jute and Cocoa-Nut Fibre. Artificial Silk. …dyestuff by about '/s and of Glauber’s salt by one-half. The Dyeing of Ramie (China-Grass). Ramie fibre is similar to linen fibre in its behaviour; the instructions given above for linen therefore apply for ramie also. As a rule ramie only comes into the hands of the dyer in the …
- Author Leopold Cassella & Co.
- Contributor Cassella Color Company
- Publisher Leopold Cassella & Co.
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Dyes and dyeing--Textile fibers, Dyes and dyeing--Cotton, Leopold Cassella & Co., Dyes and dyeing--Hosiery, Dye industry
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The Rare Earth Industry: Including the Manufacture of Incandescent Mantles, Pyrophoric Alloys, and Electrical Glow Lamps
- 1915
…in use for a short time, this material has been largely supplanted by ramie fibre for the better quality goods. Recently, artificial silk has been …impregnated with the solution of the rare earths, the web for cotton and ramie mantles needs to be washed in order to decrease the quantity of mineral matter, and also to remove any fatty substance present. Ramie mantles are soaked overnight in.a 2 per cent. solution of nitric acid…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 2
- 2006 (Summer)
…3 Our Readers Write More Than Intriguing » Lictor, Not Electricity * Ramie in the Sunshine State * Memories Revisited 4 Historic Landmarks The …axe that was the symbol of the fascist regime.” —Volta, p. 264. —Eds. Ramie in the Sunshine State In regard to the article on ramie (CH, Winter 2005/6), ramie was grown in central Florida from the 1950s until the mid-1960s. The…
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The Place of Colloid Chemistry in Chemical Education
- Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 13, No. 10
- 1936-Oct-01
…Particles —E. F. Burton X-rays and Colloids—G. L. Clark The Structure of Ramie Cellulose as Derived from X-ray Wore and; is '“Spensier Organophilic…
- Author Munro, L. A.
- Subject Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.), Education, Chemistry, Colloids
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The Paper Mill Chemist
- 1926
…Characteristics of Cotton, Linen, Hemp, Manila, Jute, Esparto, Straw, Ramie, Bamboo, and Wood Fibres—Deter- mination of Percentage Composition …12°50 40-00 Sunn hemp. : 4 ; 5°31 ‘10°87 Esparto .. 5 ‘ ; 6:95 13°32 Ramie ; : : 6°52 18°18 Fibre. It is quite possible te sprinkle rags with … to 1°55 Linen . 3 2 ; 3 ; : 5 Hemp . : ; : : : i 1:48 Jute : a 1°48 Ramie 1°51 to 1°52 Wool 1°28 to 1:33 Mohair , 1:30 Silk, raw 1:30 to 1:37…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 24 Number 1
- 2006 (Spring)
…Corrections to the Winter 2005/6 issue The photos for the article on ramie (see below) should have all been credited to Gregory Tobias. In the …contents as 1931; it should have been 1934, as in the article. Growing ramie. CHF Collections, gift of Sidney and Mildred Edelstein. Photo by Gregory…
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120 items
Garment Dyeing
- 1912
… …XV. The Dyeing of Linen, Half-linen and Ramie (China Grass). Before dyeing, linen must be boiled with 5—10% soda.…
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Colour : A Handbook of the Theory of Colour
- 1900
…) Cotton; (b) Flax, Linen; (c) Hemp ; 4d) Nettle Fibre, China Grass (Ramie) ; (e) Jute ; Manilla Hemp, New Zealand Flax, Cocoa-Nut Fibre, Cosmos …Variations from Standard. (xz) Cotton. (2) Linen Yarns. (3) Jute Yarns. (4) Ramie, Nettle Fibre. (5) Wool, (6) Silk. (7) Chappe Silk. Apparatus for ascertaining…
- Author Hurst, George H. (George Henry)
- Publisher Scott, Greenwood
- Printer Aberdeen University Press
- Subject Colors, Color--Study and teaching, Hurst, George H. (George Henry)
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 23 Number 3
- 2005 (Fall)
… ancient examples, _« The Sto © Chemistry and Geology in he Story of Ramie—on Chinese qe Edinburgh PLUS * William G. Ramsay at DuPont; Selman …
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 21 Number 4
- 2003 (Winter)
…painting from the collection Chinese Paintings Depicting the Story of Ramie from Seed to Finished Garment. Photo by Greg Tobias. to date from the…
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Oral history interview with Herman Mark
- 1986-Feb-03 (First session)
- 1986-Mar-17 (Second session)
- 1986-Jun-20 (Third session)
…61B (1928): 593-614. O. L. Sponsler and W. H. Dore, "The Structure of Ramie Cellulose as Derived from X-Ray Data," Fourth Colloid Symposium Monograph…
- Interviewee Mark, H. F. (Herman Francis), 1895-1992
- Interviewer Bohning, James J., Sturchio, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Louis), 1952-
- Subject Canadian International Paper Company, Polymers, Alfrey, Turner, 1918-1981, Macromolecules, Carothers, Wallace Hume, 1896-1937, Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Chemists--Biography, Mark, H. F. (Herman Francis), 1895-1992, Meyer, Kurt H. (Kurt Heinrich), 1883-1952, Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie, Haber, Fritz, 1868-1934, Chemists, Cellulose, Emigration and immigration