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 619
pares a pulp of indigotin and tin by anyof the following methods:—He takes dry indigo, ground and prepared, i£ lbs.,or if indigo-pulp is used such a quantity as may be equal to that weigl.t ofdry indigo; tin crystals, protochloride of tin, i£ lbs.; caustic soda, at 300 Tw.(or caustic potash, at 400… … Indigo Style. (First Stage). water are added, in which £ lb. sugar has been previously dissolved. To this,solution he adds 2\ pints of muriatic acid, at 320 Tw., or i.pint of ordinarysulphuric acid, previously diluted with 1 pint of water, and allowed to standtill clear and cold; or 3 quarts of…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing
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