AMERICAN TEXTILE TRADE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 10

AMERICAN TEXTILE TRADE.

COLOUR GUARANTEES CRUCIAL, 'TEOM OCK OVrjT COHSEorONL^ILNT.) SAN FRANCISCO, August 25.

In the face of the fact, that colour and finish to cotton textiles have come to dominate sales in a superlative degree in America, and the public: demands fast colours, the printers and dyers are vieing with one another in bringing out new traiie-rnarked lines that will guarantee to the consumer—or is it wearerwhatever of certainty or protection may l>a required in giving satisfaction to the sc.vice. In England the Bradford dyers, the largest finishing establishment in Great Britain, spent two years in research work determining how best to treat the new mixtures, of cotton and silk substitutes. A short time ayo the company sent a special corps of experts to its American branch, the Bradford Dyers' Association, located in lthoue Island, wliore they installed a complete plant and inaugurated the building of another, designed primarily to develop this sort of work. Very recently the American branch began to .offer the new finish to the trade under the trade mark name BradDeeleA, the word being an adaptation of Bradford and Celanese, featuring 8.D.A., the trade-mark of the parent and domestic organisation. Mills and converters are now sending in new goods to be finished for the coming season. Celanese, it is explained, is unlike some other '"rayon" products in that it is susceptible to treatment in dross dyeing, thus giving the finisher a wide field in developing new colours with cotton or other fibres and giving the ja-cr quard or dobby weaver rare opportunities for bringing out fancy effects in the cloth. Some of the recent work done by this concern in changeable and contrasting colours is . cited among converters as marking a new era in the development of artificial fibre in connexion with all grades of cotton yarns.

Past Colours Produced. Tlio company handles all sorts of substitute products and _ lias done some remarkable work in viscose and other fibres in the way of experiments to be shown, to converters who are using more and more of the mixed produets in their lines. While some men say that foreign countries, notably Italy and Franco, are doing remarkably sucoossful work and superior to that of dyers and finishers in the United States, independent authorities in America declare the Statements are not borne out by comparisons made with modern fabrics or by work actually done in America: on grey cloths imported from countries where boasting in their accomplishments is a feature of daily trading. The cotton fabric finishers have worked unceasingly to secure actual fast colours on all cotton goods. To protect itself in a new jine of work recently undertaken, the Bradford Company has established the brand Bradfast, and goods bearing this brand ana sold to converters or others and guaranteed that everything required in- a fast colour fabric is assured. Tho ordinary dyeing processes of commercial fast and guaranteed fast to light, etc., are still carried on, but printers and dyers are now offering niece dyes and new designs in colours that are costly and hard to apply, but are certain to give consumers the one thing they want most in a fabric that will not run or fade in wear. : ENGLISH MARKETS. (BT CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT) (ACTSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIOB.) (Received September"'' 21st, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 20. Frozen "Meat—New Zealand ewes 6Jd. Frozen Lamb—Canterbury light . 12Jd, medium 12d, selected light 12} d, , medium 112 d, North leland firats seconds Hid; Argentines, firsts, light, lid, medium, lOd, seconds 10Jd. Frozen Beef —New Zealand fores 3|jd; Argentine fores 3Jd, hinda -5-gd; Uruguay fore 3 3Jd; chilled Argentine fores iinds 6sd; Uruguay not offering; others unchanged. Cotton—October delivery 12.76 d per lb.

Kubber—Para 14J.d per lb, plantation 14! d, smoked 14Jd. Jute —September-October shipment, £36 12s 6<l per ton. Hemp—September-November shipment, £4l pei> ton. Copra—September-October shipment, £29 10s per ton.

Linseed Oil—£l3 10s per ton, Turpentine—6os 3d per cwt.

WHEAT. (bi cable— pbess association—copyright) (AUSTBAUAN AKD 5.2. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received September 21st, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, September 20.

Cargoes aro steady. Quotations nominally axe unchanged. The demand is quiet. Parcels are in email request.

LONDON WOOL SALES. (Received September 21et, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 19. At tie wool sales there was a very good tone, and keen general competition. Prices wero very firm. A New Zealand lot branded "Kaiapoi'' sold nt 39d per lb. GOLD. (austsauan asd y.z. cable association.) (Received September 21st, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 19. Gold is quoted at £4 12a 9d per 0%.

SHARES. (austhauas and n.z. cable association.) (Received September 21at, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 19. Wnihi, buyers, 28s lOd.

DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET. Messrs A. H. Turnbnll and Co. have rectived the following cabled advice from London: —Danish butter, 222s to 224s (last •week Z10 B to 2135); N.Z. salted, 210s to 212s (206s to 2065); good enquiry. Cheese— White, 933 to 94b (945); coloured, 91s to 92s (923); market quiet. SMITHFIELD MARKET. fPHISS ASSOCIATION TELEGBAK.) WELLINGTON, September 21. The N«w Zealand Meat Producers' Board ha# received the following cable from its London office, dated September 19th, advising Smithfield delivered prices at that date as follows (prices for the two jprwvious weeks are alio shown): —

New Zealand wethers and maidens, Canterbury quality, selected brands, 56-under, 19-O-Si 84d, 12-9-24 BJd, 5-9-24, SJd; 57-64 Bid, aid, did; 65-73, Bd, Sd, Bd. Other brands: 56-under, tsjd, Bid, BJd: 67-64, 8d W, 8d; 65-72, 7Jd. 7Jd, 7Jd. New Zealand ewes: M-under, 6fcl, f>id, S£d. New Zealand lamb, Canterbury quality: 36-under, laid 12ii, l!Hd; 37-42, 12d, li;d, 12d; 40-50. lid, lid, Hid; seconds, ll£d, lljd, lljd; selected, 36-under, . 12id, 12id, 124 d; 37-12, 13Jd, l'ijd, 12Jd; other brands, hrat quality; Sunder, lljd, lljd, ll|d. .New Zealand Beef: Oi fores, 3|d, —. —• o* hinds, -> —• eow fonee, not quoted; cow hinds, not quoted. Argentine Chilled Beef; Ox fores, B|4, 3fcd, 3|d > ojc hinds, 6sd, 74d, TJd, Argentine Proaes Beef: Oi fores, aid, BJd, Bid- oi hinds, 6|d, sid, 5Jd. 'Frozen Berk-, «&-lion>, Bd, —, —j 120-lßolb, 79d —, Krewn Id, 4d, 4d. '