Chapter I. General Considerations on Bleaching. Chapter II. Steeping. Chapter III. Washing: Its End and Importance--Roller Washing Machines--Wash Wheel (Dash Wheel)--Stocks or Wash Mill--Squeezing. Chapter IV. Lye Boiling--Lye Boiling with Milk of Lime--Lye Boiling with Soda Lyes--Description of Lye Boiling Keirs--Operations of Lye Boiling--Concentration of Lyes. Chapter V. Mather and Platt's Keir--Description of the Keir--Saturation of the Fabrics--Alkali used in Lye Boiling--Examples of Processes. Chapter VI. Soap--Action of Soap in Bleaching--Quality and Quantity of Soaps to use in the Lye--Soap Lyes or Scalds--Soap Scouring Stocks. Chapter VII. Bleaching on Grass or on the Bleaching Green or Lawn. Chapter VIII. Chemicking--Remarks on Chlorides and their Decolourising Action--Chemicking Cisterns--Chemicking--Strengths, etc. Chapter IX. Sours--Properties of the Acids--Effects Produced by Acids--Souring Cisterns. Chapter X. Drying--Drying by Steam--Drying by Hot Air--Drying by Air. Chapter XI. Damages to Fabrics in Bleaching--Yarn Mildew--Fermentation--Iron Rust Spots--Spots from Contact with Wood--Spots incurred on the Bleaching Green--Damages arising from the Machines. Chapter XII. Examples of Methods used in Bleaching--Linen--Cotton. Chapter XIII. The Valuation of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali (Soda) and General Information Regarding these Bodies--Object of Alkalimetry--Titration of Carbonate of Soda--Comparative Table of Different Degrees of Alkalimetrical Strength--Five Problems relative to Carbonate of Soda --Caustic Soda, its Properties and Uses--Mixtures of Carbonated and Caustic Alkali--Note on a Process of Manufacturing Caustic Soda and Mixtures of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali (soda). Chapter XIV. Chlorometry--Titration--Wagner's Chlorometric Method--Preparation of Standard Solutions--Apparatus for Chlorine Valuation--Alkali in Excess in Decolourising Chlorides. Chapter XV. Chlorine and Decolourising Chlorides--Synopsis--Chlorine--Chloride of Lime--Hypochlorite of Soda--Brochoki's Chlorozone--Various Decolourising Hypochlorites--Comparison of Chloride of Lime and Hypochlorite of Soda. Chapter XVI. Water--Qualities of Water--Hardness--Dervaux's Purifier--Testing the Purified Water--Different Plant for Purification--Filters. Chapter XVII. Bleaching of Yarn--Weight of Yarn--Lye Boiling--Chemicking--Washing--Bleaching of Cotton Yarn. Chapter XVIII. The Installation of a Bleach Works--Water Supply--Steam Boilers--Steam Distribution Pipes--Engines--Keirs--Washing Machines--Stocks--Wash Wheels--Chemicking and Souring Cisterns--Various--Buildings. Chapter XIX. Addenda--Energy of Decolourising Chlorides and Bleaching by Electricity and Ozone--Energy of Decolourising Chlorides--Chlorides--Production of Chlorine and Hypochlorites by Electrolysis--Lunge's Process for increasing the intensity of the Bleaching Power of Chloride of Lime--Trilfer's Process for Removing the Excess of Lime or Soda from Decolourising Chlorides--Bleaching by Ozone.