The American practical dyer's companion : comprising a description of the principal dye-stuffs and chemicals used in dyeing, their nature and uses, mordants, and how made : with the best American, English, French, and German processes ... embracing in all over eight hundred receipts for colors and shades, accompanied by one hundred and seventy dyed samples of raw materials and fabrics
A working manual of dyeing by F. J. Bird, issued in 1882 by Henry Carey Baird in Philadelphia and Sampson Low in London for practising dyers and mill chemists, with over eight hundred recipes and one hundred and seventy dyed samples of yarn and cloth mounted in the text. The plates are photographed swatches: small rectangles of wool and cotton in blacks, browns and dull purples, with plain, twill and herringbone weaves visible and loose threads at the cut edges, usable as woven textures, muted color chips, or specimen-card layouts on pale paper.
