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 212
No. 78.—Blue Drab. (On 15 pieces.)Dye with 8 quarts of solution of chip logwood, 1 pint extract sumac each end.wash off. Run three ends copperas, same as above, and No. 79.—Slate. (On 15 pieces.) Make up bath of water, and add to it 4 gallons logwood, stand-ing 10° Tw. each end, with 5 ounces sal… … No. 80.—Drab on Cords or Fustians and Midshades. Sadden the goods with fustic, sumac, logwood, and 1 pint an-natto ; run your tub up with warm water; work the piece well;then copperas, with 4 quarts at 8° Tw., in warm water. Workthe piece well; wash off in warm water with half a pot of pickle(black…
Dyes and dyeing
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