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 169
No. 9.— Gray on Cotton or Mixed Goods. To dye cotton or cotton and wool mixed (100 lbs.) use 3 lbs. ofaniline mordant dissolved in boiling water. Handle the goods inthis for ten or fifteen minutes at hand heat; pass through sulphateof iron (see mordants), rinse, and finish. Any shade may be… … No. 10.—Drab. The new way to dye cotton or cotton and wool mixed: mordantas for gray (No. 9), dye in peach wood, and fustic. No. 11.—Bark Gray. On cotton and mixed goods same as gray (No. 9), and repeat;top off with blue to shade, or for redder shades with blue andviolet.
Dyes and dyeing
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