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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 527 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLOORCLOTH , a rough See also:

flannel See also:cloth used for domestic cleaning; also a generic See also:term applied to a variety of materials used in See also:place of carpets for covering floors, and known by such See also:trade names as kamptulicon, oil-cloth, linoleum, corticine, See also:cork-See also:carpet, &c. Kamptulicon (Ka).ar6s, flexible, obXos, thick) was patented in 1844 by E. See also:Galloway, but did not attract much See also:attention till about 1862. It was essentially a preparation of indiarubber masticated up with ground cork, and rolled out into sheets between heavy See also:steam-heated rollers, sometimes over a backing of See also:canvas. Owing to its expensiveness, it has given place to cheaper materials serving the same purpose. Oil-cloth is a coarse canvas which has received a number of coats of thick oil paint, each coat being rubbed smooth with See also:pumice See also:stone before the application of the next. Its See also:surface is ornamented with patterns printed in oil See also:colours by means of wooden blocks. Linoleum (linum, See also:flax, oleum, oil), patented by F. See also:Walton in 186o and 1863, consists of oxidized See also:linseed oil and ground cork. These ingredients, thoroughly incorporated with the addition of certain gummy and resinous matters, and of See also:pigments such as ochre and See also:oxide of See also:iron as required, are pressed on to a rough canvas backing between steam-heated rollers. Patterns may be printed on its surface with oil paint, or by an improved method may be inlaid with coloured See also:composition so that the colours are continuous through the thickness of the linoleum, instead of being on the surface only, and thus do not disappear with See also:wear. Lincrusta-Walton is a similar material to linoleum, also having oxidized linseed oil as its See also:base, which is stamped out in embossed patterns and used as a covering for walls.

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