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 331
chalk had been added in thedye-beck. All these observations refer to madder only. As regards fleur de garanceand garancin, irregularities in the mode of heating, the material used in theconstruction of the dye-beck, and many other conditions, have no prejudicialaction upon the process of dyeing.… … again, is suitable for purples and blacks ; for red and black a mixture of fleurand madder is used, which yields a deeper black than fleur by itself. On the large scale madder dyeing is performed in well-constructed, water-tight, wooden tanks, heated by steam, and provided with properly…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing
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