A practical handbook of dyeing and calico-printing. With eleven page-plates, forty-seven specimens of dyed and printed fabrics, and thirty-eight woodcuts (1874)
Crookes, William, 1832-1919 · London, Longmans, Green · leaf 291
contents have acquired that temperature the stopcock k isopened, by means of which superheated steam is admitted, first at a tempera-ture of 2000, increasing gradually to 220°, 230°, and at last to 2400. Thealizarin is volatilised, and carried by the steam in the shape of an orange-yellow coloured… … Madder lakes are insoluble combinations of the red colouring matters ofmadder with certain metallic oxides. Some of these are of great beauty, andemployed by artists as oil and water colours, and they may be fixed upon textilefabrics, by the intervention of albumen, in the same lnannei as…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing
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