The Dyer's Guide: Being a compendium of the art of dyeing linen, cotton, silk, wool, muslin, dresses, furniture, &c. &c.; with the method of scouring wool, bleaching cotton, &c., and directions for ungumming silk, and for whitening and sulphuring silk and wool; and also an introductory epitome of the leading facts in chemistry, as connected with the art of dyeingPacker, Thomas
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The Dyer's Guide: Being a compendium of the art of dyeing linen, cotton, silk, wool, muslin, dresses, furniture, &c. &c.; with the method of scouring wool, bleaching cotton, &c., and directions for ungumming silk, and for whitening and sulphuring silk and wool; and also an introductory epitome of the leading facts in chemistry, as connected with the art of dyeing
Packer, Thomas
Dyes and dyeing; Textile fabrics
Bancroft's dyeing, 4
Bancroft's murio-sulphate of tin, 101
Barilla, 15
Bastard saffron, ib.
Berthollet's dyeing, 4
Bile, 10
Black on silk, 106, 107, 108
to dye, on cotton, Rouen process, 108
London process, ib.
Black, to dye, on cotton velvets at Manchester, 110
silk and cotton with a blue ground, 112
another for cotton, 114
on wool, 90, 93
Bleaching, 37
Blood used in dyeing, 119
its constituents, 24
Blue, 111
to dye, on cotton, 47
silk, 64
wool, 73, 80
linen and cotton, 57
chemic, 47
copperas or vitriol, 10
Bran, 9
Brimstone, 15
Brown, to dye wool, 97
cotton, 128
Buff, to dye cotton a fast, 58
wool, 101
Calcination, 28
Calico printers' mordant, 36
Carbon, or charcoal, 28
Carbonic acid, 32
Carbonate of ammonia, 23
potash, 14
soda, 31
Carthamus, 15
Cerulin, 11
Chemic blue, 47
green, 52
Chemical terms, 45
Chemistry, leading facts in, 26
Chlorine, 9, 13
Chloride of lime, 38
Cochineal, 9
Colours, on fast and fugitive, 39
for dyeing, 6
Sir I. Newton's primary, 18
to prove, 41
Composition for dyeing silk scarlet, 141
Combustion, 28
Copper, 10
Copper, acetate of, 10
sulphate of, ib.
Coquelicot, to dye silk, 138
Cotton, on dyeing, 47, 104, 123
to dye chemic or Saxon blue, 47
black, 108, 110, 114
green, 52
a fast green, 56
buff, 58
green with indigo and weld, 56
pink, 60
violet, 115
duck's-wing green or olive, 128
brown, maroon, &c., ib.
red, 116, 117
yellow by chromate of lead, 151
skein, to dye, yellow, 124
furniture, to dye, yellow, ib.
the same to re-dye, 127
Cream of Tartar, 9
Crimson, to dye, by archil on wool, 80
lac dye on wool, ib.
worsted yarn, 81
on silk, 140
Cudbear, 8
Decoction, what, 53
Distilled verdigris, 17
Drugs used in dyeing, 7
Dye-houses, 42
Dyer, the trade of a, 1
Dyers of Adrianople red, 2
black, 3
grain, 1
silk, skein, 3
rag, ib.
woad, 2
woollen, 1
worsted yarn, 3
weed, 17
Fawn, to dye wool, 88
Feathered tin, 83
Fermentation, the vinous, 25
acetous, ib.
Fermentation, the putrid, 25
Fibrin, 24
Gall of animals, 10
Galls, ib.
Gallic acid, ib.
Gas, what, 31
Gelatine, 24
Gold colour, to dye wool, 90
Green, to dye the chemic, on cotton, 52
cotton a fast, 56
wool, 89
woollen, ib.
cotton duck's-wing, 128
silk, 145
vitriol, or copperas, 12
Grey, to dye wool, 96
on silk, 147
Hematin, 96
Hydrogen, 29
carburetted, 32
sulphuretted, 33
Indigo, 10
prepared, 75
sulphate of, 11, 51
neutralization of, 52
Indigo, solution of, for penciling muslin, 57
vats, 54, 102
Inflammable air, 29
Iron, 12
acetate, ib.
liquor, 112
muriate, 12
oxide, ib.
sulphate, ib.
Iron-moulds, 34
Jennings's Cyclopædia, 4
Lac dye, 12
Lake, ib.
how used for scarlet, 80
Light, decomposition of, 18
Lime, 23
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