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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 621

An illustration from 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, leaf 621 — d dunging for fifteen to twelve minutes, in abeck containing cow-dung and water, at ioo° F. They are then washed inwater, and dyed with madder, munjeet, flower of madder, garancin, extractof madder, cochineal, mixtures of garancin with sumac and bark. Thegrounds are then cleared in the ordinary… … Style Produced by Lightfoots Patent Process. INDIGO STYLES. 593 Sixth Style.—China (Indigo) Blues.This style produces blue figures on a white ground, and is thereforethe reverse of Style V. A mixture containing indigo is printed on, andis then fixed by further treatment. The standard colour is made…

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