A practical treatise on dyeing and calico-printing : including the latest inventions and improvements : also a description of the origin, manufacture, uses, and chemical properties of the various animal, vegetable, and mineral substances employed in these arts : with an appendix comprising definitions of chemical terms, with tables of weights, measures, thermometers, hydrometers, &c. (1860)
Parnell, Edward A. (Edward Andrew), Macfarlane, Robert, 1815-1883 · New York : John Wiley · leaf 353
ime to hundred weights, and sold at a trifle to painters. But there is another evil attend ing this method. Say 100 lbs. of yarn is to be dyed a red shade of lemon, this will take 160 ounces of the salt of lead, which will contain 53 ounces of acid and 107 oxide of lead. If we suppose that all the…
Dyes and dyeing · Calico-printing · Coal-tar colors
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
