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    cāliyans. The raw fabric was dyed and printed in bright hues, and calico prints became popular in Europe. Calico originated in Calicut, from which the...
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    maintained the word calico for the fabric, in the US it was used to refer to the printed design or pattern. These colorful, small-patterned printed fabrics gave...
    17 KB (2,026 words) - 18:53, 7 October 2024
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    Chintz (redirect from Calico print)
    Chintz (/tʃɪnts/) is a woodblock printed, painted, stained or glazed calico textile that originated in Golconda (present day Hyderabad, India) in the 16th...
    10 KB (1,051 words) - 02:52, 21 September 2024
  • Tara Leigh Calico (born February 28, 1969) is an American woman who disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico, on September 20, 1988. She is widely...
    21 KB (2,164 words) - 09:42, 7 August 2024
  • The Calico Print was a newspaper, established in 1882 and published during the heyday of the silver mining camp of Calico, California prior to 1902. The...
    4 KB (470 words) - 21:38, 18 April 2023
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    The Calico Acts (1700, 1721) banned the import of most cotton textiles into England, followed by the restriction of sale of most cotton textiles. It was...
    9 KB (957 words) - 13:30, 12 October 2024
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    Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert...
    20 KB (1,976 words) - 18:09, 31 August 2024
  • modern times, blue calico is used to make daily clothes, mosquito nets, pillowcases, or baggage cloth. The blue and white printed calico was first worn by...
    4 KB (476 words) - 15:23, 7 June 2024
  • Calico Life Sciences LLC is an American biotechnology company with a focus on the biology of aging, attempting to devise interventions that may enable...
    14 KB (1,102 words) - 06:42, 3 July 2024
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    importation of dyed or printed calicoes from India, China or Persia. This caused grey cloth (calico that had not been finished – dyed or printed) to be imported...
    15 KB (1,817 words) - 06:57, 15 September 2024
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    Originally calico printing was done by hand, but Potter introduced precision machine printing. By 1883, the mill employed 350, and had printed 1 million...
    6 KB (509 words) - 21:57, 16 January 2024
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    prohibited the wearing of printed calicos manufactured in China, India or Persia. This inadvertently established a calico bleaching and printing industry...
    21 KB (2,132 words) - 17:36, 25 May 2024
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    of calico in from two to six colours at a single operation. Roller printing was highly productive, 10,000 to 12,000 yards being commonly printed in one...
    33 KB (4,670 words) - 17:18, 18 September 2024
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    Hadfield. The calico printing factory of Edmund Potter (located in Dinting Vale) in the 1850s printed 2½ million pieces of printed calico, of which 80%...
    63 KB (6,901 words) - 02:55, 26 September 2024
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    company exported principally wine and brandy and increasingly chintz (or printed calico Catalan: indianes) as this industry grew in Barcelona. Imported products...
    12 KB (1,265 words) - 09:51, 29 August 2024
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    silk industry fell into a decline – partly due to the introduction of printed calico cloth – and riots ensued. These "Spitalfield Riots" of 1769 were actually...
    182 KB (21,467 words) - 22:05, 26 September 2024
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    at its inception accounted for over 80% of Britain’s output of printed cloth. The Calico Printers' Association Limited was incorporated on 8 November 1899...
    4 KB (426 words) - 21:32, 28 July 2024
  • Calico Captive is Elizabeth George Speare's first historical fiction children's novel, published in 1957. It was inspired by the true story of Susanna...
    8 KB (1,015 words) - 22:22, 8 April 2024
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    continued services. The company prospered despite an excise duty on printed calico (until it was abolished in 1831). Mercer and his and his wife were active...
    7 KB (742 words) - 18:08, 13 February 2024
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    colleagues to establish the Merrimack Manufacturing Company to produce printed calico cloth at the Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River. In 1822 he appointed...
    8 KB (778 words) - 08:54, 17 June 2024
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