"Dixie Mercerizing Company's National Register listing and rehabilitation will help further solidify its place in Chattanooga's storied history." Contact Ben Benton at [email protected] ...

Traditional methods of washing or mercerizing the fabric entails multiple, water-intensive washings to restore optimal fabric pH and remove unfixed dyestuff and any undesired deposits or impurities ...

Ottawa needs Rick Mercerizing Lawrence Martin Public affairs columnist Special to The Globe and Mail Published October 14, 2014 ...

Dixie Mercerizing Company is now known as The Dixie Group. Dates for the images in both collections range from 1875 to 1976, with the bulk falling around the 1950s.

INVESTIGATIONS1 on the hydrolysis and water-regaining properties of wood pulp, cotton and cotton linters swelled in sodium hydroxide solutions of varying concentrations showed that, whereas for ...

Next to the gym for years was a now-gone outdoor pool. The Dixie company – which changed its name to Dixie Yarns in 1964 -- used the mercerizing process, an innovation that made yarn and fabric ...

The mill used the mercerizing process to make yarn and fabric stronger and easier to dye by altering the chemical structure. Dixie Yarns sold the mill to R.L. Stowe Mills in 1998, and it began ...