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
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. … 74.—Methyl Blue on 20 lbs. In a soap bath add three ounces color and 1J pounds sulphuricacid; for dark blue use double the quantity of color; commenceat 100° F. and raise to 200° F. ; then wash and pass through aweak sour. Some use it in the same way as alkali blue, dyeing with boraxand raising…
Dyes and dyeing
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