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 606
ey are washed anddried. The above specimen will serve as an illustration of the madder style. To produce this pattern, red liquor at 120 Tw., thickened with flour, isprinted in for the red, and a much weaker red liquor, similarly thickened, forthe pink. The pieces are then dunged, washed, dyed with… … Madder Style. (First Stage.)These serve to illustrate the successive stages of madder-work. In the first,the mordants, or, as they are technically called colours,—suitable forsubsequently producing, in combination with the tinctorial principles of the dye-ware, black, purple, red, and light brown…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing
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