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 175
tar; they are then washed, and the cotton dyedsame as cardinal. No. 38.—Aniline Cardinal (on 100 lbs. of stockings). The wool is dyed with 1J lbs. aniline scarlet, 1 pint vitriol;enter, cool, and work slowly to a boil, and boil twenty-five minutes;they are then washed, and the cotton is dyed as… … Plum. Same as prune, only use 3 per cent, violet and 1 per cent. Bis-mark, or for redder shades magenta for topping off;
Dyes and dyeing
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