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 68
r almost any of thefine blues will work on silk. The proportions of four parts alumand four parts sulphuric acid to one part of aniline will be foundto give good results ; commence at about 100° F. and slowly raiseto 200° F. No. 71.—Light Blue from Cotton Blue. For ten pounds add one ounce of… … No. U.—Fi ark Shade. For ten pounds use three ounces cotton blue, as No. 72, andwork in the same manner for half hour; then lift, and add li oz.4° B. violet to the same bath; work half hour, and wash off.
Dyes and dyeing
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