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 167
zinc in solution. To theclear liquid add finely ground indigo and a sufficient quantity oflime or soda to dissolve the white indigo formed. Cotton is dyedcold as in the old process; 1 lb. of indigo to 1J gal. of the solu-tion makes a strong vat. SECTION VIII. DYEING DRESS GOODS. No. 1.—Light Green.… … No. 3.—Barker Green. Mordant, and iron as last, and when washed run through logwood liquor, the strength of which is regulated according to thedepth of color required. It is then topped off in the same bathwith malachite ereen to shade.
Dyes and dyeing
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