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
Linen, to dye, scarlet, 122
blue, 57
Litmus, or lacmus, 8
Lilac, to dye silk, 68
muslin, ib.
Logwood, 96
M'Kernan on dyeing silk, 4
Maroon, to dye wool, 85
cotton, 128
Moidore, to dye silk, 137
Mordant, what, 27
the calico printers', for yellow and red, 36
Muriate of soda, 12
tin, 144
Murio-sulphate of tin, 101
Muriatic acid, 12
gas, 14
Muslin, to dye, lilac, 68
Nitre, 12
Nitric acid, ib.
Nitro-muriatic acid, 13
Nitrogen, 23
gas, 29
Oil of vitriol, 15
Orange, to dye wool, 90
silk, 137
Orpiment, 13
Oxides, what, 14
Oxidation, 28
Oxygen, ib.
Oxymuriatic acid, 13
Oxymuriate of lime, 38
Pastel, 17
vat, 73
Peach, to dye wool, 101
Pearl-ash, 14
Phenicin, 11
Pink, to dye cotton, 60
Poppy, to dye silk, 138
Potash, 14
Potassium, 29
Prickly pear, 9
Proximate constituents of animals, 23
vegetables, 21
Purple, to dye silk, 67
wool, 88
Pyrolignous acid, 33
Quercitron bark, 15
Realgar, 13
Red, to dye cotton, 116
Red, to dye cotton, Adrianople or Turkey, 117
Safflower, 15
Salt, common, 12
Saddening, what, 111
Scarlet, to dye, with lac dye, 80
silk, 141
wool, 82
on linen, 122
Silk, on dyeing, 62, 105, 123
ungumming and boiling, 129
whitening, 132
aluming, 63, 134
to dye blue, 64, 67
violet, royal purple, &c., 67
lilac, 68
another process for the same, ib.
violet and purple, ib.
another process for the same, 69
another process for the same, ib.
purple, ib.
aurora, orange, and moidore gold colour and chamois, 136
black, 105, 106, 107, 112
orange or aurora, 137
moidore, ib.
orange, 138
poppy or coquelicot, ib.
a cheap poppy, 139
a fine crimson or scarlet, 140
another process for the same, 142
a fine violet, 143
green, 145
olive, 146
grey, 147
with Prussian blue, 149
yellow, by chromate of lead, 151
Silk skein, to dye, yellow, 135
Soap, 31
Soda, 15
Sodium, 30
Spirit of salts, 12
wine, 25
Spirit of hartshorn, 24
Substantive colours, 27
Sulphate of alum and potash, 7
copper, 10
indigo, 51
to neutralize, 52
iron, 12
Sulphur, 15, 32
Sulphuret of arsenic, 13
Sulphuric acid, 15
Sumach, 16
Tannin, 10
Tar-iron liquor, 114
Tartar, 8
Tin, 16
muriate of, 144
murio-sulphate of, 101
nitro-muriate of, 83
Turkey red, 117
Turmeric, 16
Ultimate constituents of animals, 23
vegetables, 21
Ure's Berthollet, 4
Chemical Dictionary, 4
Utensils, on the, used in dyeing, 43
Vat, the blue indigo, for silk, 64
another for the same, 67
cold indigo, for cotton, 54
blue, for linen and cotton, 57
indigo, for worsted and serge, 102
Vegetable substances, analysis of, 18
Verdigris, common, 16
distilled, ib.
Violet, to dye cotton, 115
a fine, on silk, 143
Water proper for dyeing, 42
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