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Smith's Practical dyer's guide : containing five hundred dyed patterns, to each of which a genuine receipt is given : the work comprises practical instructions in the dyeing of silk, cotton, and wool, in a raw and manufactured state, also instructions for dyeing plain and mixed fabrics ... also receipts for making all the dye spirits with which to dye every colour in the work (1880)

Smith, David, pattern dyer · London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co. · leaf 49

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42 WOOLLENS. … but I have used in the place of them, one fourth part of Oil of Vitriol, one fourth of Aquafortis, and two fourths of Spirits of Salts, and have found these to answer every purpose of the Blue Spirits. No. 73. I 4 Ends, 24 lbs. each. DAEK EOYAL BLUE. Dye with 6 lbs, of Prussiate. 6 quarts of Eoyal…

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