The American practical dyer's companion : comprising a description of the principal dye-stuffs and chemicals used in dyeing, their nature and uses, mordants, and how made : with the best American, English, French, and German processes ... embracing in all over eight hundred receipts for colors and shades, accompanied by one hundred and seventy dyed samples of raw materials and fabrics (1882)
Bird, F. J. (Frederick J.), Henry Carey Baird & Co., publisher, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, publisher · Philadelphia : Henry Carey Baird & Co., industrial publishers, booksellers, and importers, 810 Walnut Street ; London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet Street · leaf 140
No. 4.—Dark Green Olive. Prepare dye-bath with 12 pounds turmeric, 2 quarts oil of vit-riol, 5 pounds tartar, 2 quarts sulphate of indigo. Boil up well,and cool down; enter goods ; turn six times. Boil up quickly,and continue for forty minutes, and wash off well. … 124 AMERICAN PRACTICAL DYER S COMPANION. No. 5.—Light Olive Green. Prepare dye-bath with 4 pounds turmeric, 1 quart oil of vitriol,4 pounds tartar, 1 pint sulphate of indigo, and work in respectssame as dark shade. No. 6.—Regular Shade of Green. Make up bath of boiling hot water, and add to it 5…
Dyes and dyeing
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