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
Weld, 17, 41
to dye cotton green with, and indigo, 56
wool green with, and woad, 89
White, the numerous shades of, in silk, 132
Whitening silk, process for, ib.
Woad, 17
vat, rules to judge of, 75
how to work, 77
errors in, how to remove, 76
on the putrefaction of the, 78
Wool, on scouring and dyeing, 70
the action of tartar and alum on, 72
to dye, orange, gold colour, &c., 90
black, 90, 93, 94
blue, by the woad vat, 73
blue, several methods, 80, 89
scarlet and crimson, 80, 81, 82
maroon, 85
yellow, 87, 99
brown and fawn colour, 88
purple, ib.
green, 89
black, 90
another process, 93
greys, 96
brown, fawn, and many other colours, 97
Wool, to dye, buff, 101
peach, ib.
Woollen, a chemic vat for green, 89
blue, ib.
Worsted yarn, to dye, a crimson, 81
and serge, indigo vat for, 102
Yellow from Quercitron bark, 98
chromate of lead, 151
weld, 87, 125
on, wool, 87
cotton, 124, 151
silk, 135, 151
THE END.
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