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
Plum. Same as prune, only use 3 per cent, violet and 1 per cent. Bis-mark, or for redder shades magenta for topping off; … No. 41.—Pansy on Woollen Mixed Clothing. For 100 kilos. (220 lbs.). Make a decoction of 2 kilos. (4.4 lbs.)sumac, filter, and dissolve \ kilo. (0.55 lb.) castile soap, put thecloth into it, and leave it there for a night; wring the next morn-ing, and enter into a new methyl violet bath according to…
Dyes and dyeing
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