The American dyer : a practical treatise on the coloring of wool, cotton, yarn & cloth.. (1873)
Gibson, Richard H · Philadelphia, H.C. Baird · leaf 97
are too tedious to adopt. The chief use that woolen dyers make of muriatic acid isas a solvent for tin; it enters into the composition of thenitro-muriate, muriate and murio-sulphate of tin. It holds alarger quantity of tin in solution than any other acid, forwhich reason we see the importance of… … THE AMERICAN DYER. 93 WOOL SCOURING. It is a common and almost universal practice among dyersnot to be as particular in having their wool scoured for thedark colors as they do for the light shades or for the bluevat. This I think a very erroneous idea, and I cannotsee any reason for such a…
Dyes and dyeing
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