Dyes and dyeing

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
PLATE I. INDIGO DYED BATIK FROM MADRAS
BY CHARLES E. PELLEW Formerly Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University
NEW YORK ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY 1918
Copyright, 1913, by McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY Copyright, 1918, by ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY
New and enlarged edition Published, January, 1918
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When a new text-book is offered to an innocent and long-suffering public about such an ancient subject as Dyes and Dyeing, it is, perhaps, the very least that the author can do, to explain briefly his reasons for hoping that his particular book may prove of some special usefulness.
As a matter of fact this book is intended for the use of craftsmen and others who are trying to dye and stain textiles by hand and on a small scale, rather than for professional dyers or dyeing chemists who are interested in factory dyeing, conducted on a large scale. For the latter there is little or no difficulty in getting any information that they desire, either from the large and carefully written text-books or, still better, from the many excellent dyeing manuals and books of directions issued at frequent intervals by the great color houses.