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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 678

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 678 — arch. The red is extract of madder, applied in the usual mannerby printing on a mordant colour of acetate of alumina. In the next pattern the slate colour is a pigment, carbonaceous grey, fixedas above directed. The black, green, and yellow are produced in mannerssimilar to those in the preceding… … Ultramarine and Madder Extract. The pattern on p. 644 shows a combination of red, pink, orange, blue, green,and black colours. The red and pink are again extract of madder, thedifference in depth of shade being produced by printing on mordants colours of different strengths. The black is a…

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