A practical handbook of dyeing and calico-printing. With eleven page-plates, forty-seven specimens of dyed and printed fabrics, and thirty-eight woodcuts
A technical handbook on dyeing and calico-printing by the chemist William Crookes, published in London by Longmans, Green in 1874 for dyers, printers and textile manufacturers, with eleven plates, thirty-eight woodcuts and mounted fabric samples. The engravings show mill interiors and machinery in use textile washing and bleaching apparatus, roof trusses and gas fittings, workers hauling cloth usable as period industrial scenes or as diagrams of Victorian works equipment.
