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 214
s for two hours in the decoction of sumac 10pounds. Enter in a second water of tartar emetic at lf° Tw.,wash well, and dye in a third water with methyl violet 11| ounces,methyl green 2J ounces. Enter the goods at 122° F., raise to212° F., and boil for half an hour. The addition of methyl green… … No. 91.—Scarlet (50 lbs.). Mordant in red liquor 3° Tw. for two and a half hours, drainand wring. Dye with 22 ounces scarlet, commence at 100° F.and raise to the boil, dont wash. No. 92.— On Aniline Black. It must not be thought that aniline black has a certain fixedcomposition, and that every…
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