Dyeing and calico printing : including an account of the most recent improvements in the manufacture and use of aniline colours : illustrated with wood engravings and numerous specimens of printed and dyed fabrics (1876)
Crace-Calvert, F. (Frederick), 1819-1873, Stenhouse, John, 1809-1880, Groves, Charles Edward, 1841-1920 · Manchester : Palmer & Howe ; New York : J. Wiley and Son · leaf 181
also found in commercein bales. In Germany the woad of Thuringia is almostexclusively used. Woad is frequently employed in dyeing,mixed with ordinary indigo, as some manufacturers con-sider that they cannot obtain the finest shades without it.The balls are light, of a sickly odour, and of a green… … Flower. . Seed. Fig. 6. The Isatis indigotica.~T€m-\iO?i-\.€m-z\\mg is grown inmost of the provinces of China, for the preparation of akind of indigo, which is sold as a viscid paste. When driedit has a blackish colour, and is used for the production ofCanton blue, &c. The Polygonmn imctorium,…
Crace-Calvert, F. (Frederick), 1819-1873 · Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing · Textile printing · Coal-tar colors
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