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 144
s logwood and 10 poundsof fustic. Boil one hour, and wash off; if not dark add more log-wood to the bath. No. 22.—Alkali Blue. Prepare dye-bath with the solution of 1 pound of alkali blue 4B., with 10 pounds of soda or borax. Enter, and keep in motionfor three-quarters of an hour at a boil. Then… … No. 23.—Aniline Navy Blue. Make up a bath of water and add to it the solution of 2 poundsaniline navy blue, 1 pound induline blue, 2 quarts oil of vitriol.Boil the bath up well before entering. Cool down to 150° F., enterthe cloth, and turn for one hour at a boil; then wash off in coldwater. If…
Dyes and dyeing
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