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 74
No. 96.— Wine ColorIs dyed in the same way as plum, by adding acid orange to shade it. … No. 9T.—Jet Black with Nitrate of Iron on Silk (200 yards). After being cleaned, prepare in a cold bath of nitrate of iron,5° Tw., which is strong enough for light silks ; 4° to 4J° will dofor dark colored ; let lie in half an hour ; wash well; boil fourteenpounds fustic, put off the boil, and…
Dyes and dyeing
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