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The coal tar colours of Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius & Brüning, Hoechst on Main, Germany, and their application in wool dyeing

Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Brüning · 1910 · New York, H. A. Metz · 88 pictures

A 1910 dye-house sample book issued in New York by H. A. Metz for the German chemical works Farbwerke vorm. Meister, Lucius & Brüning, showing their coal-tar colours as applied to wool for mill dyers and textile buyers. Each plate mounts a rectangle of dyed wool cloth on cream card, giving flat blacks, bottle greens and warm browns with visible weave and frayed edges.

Dyes and dyeing

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