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
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… … No. 24.—Night Green. Make up a bath of water boiling hot and dissolve 14 ounces ofacid green crystals in an earthen vessel, strain off the solution andadd it to the bath, and with it sufficient picric acid, or fustic enoughto yellow them to the shade required. Enter the cloth, and workuntil the…
Dyes and dyeing
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