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
Transcriber's Note.
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. The use of hyphens has been rationalised.
THE DYER'S GUIDE.
Colours obtained by Sir Isaac Newton's method of decomposing the rays of light, the least refrangible being placed first, the most refrangible last. See p. 18.
Red. Orange. Yellow. Green. Blue. Indigo. Violet.
THE DYER'S COLOURS AND THEIR CHIEF COMPOUNDS.
SIMPLE COLOURS.
COMPOUND COLOURS.
Green is made with Blue and Yellow.
Orange with Red and Yellow.
Greys with Black, Blue, and Red.
BEING A COMPENDIUM OF THE ART OF DYEING LINEN, COTTON, SILK, WOOL, MUSLIN, DRESSES, FURNITURE, &c. &c.
Thomas Packer
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EPITOME OF COLOURS.
PREFACE.
ERRATUM.
CONTENTS.
Drugs Applicable to Dyeing.
On the Component Parts of Vegetable and Animal substances.
The Calico-Printers' mordant or base of alum for yellow and red goods, either for printing or dyeing; and on compound colours.
On the theory relative to fast and fugitive colours.
On dye-houses and the water proper for dyeing.
Miscellaneous observations.
To dye cotton of a Saxon or chemic blue.
Sulphate of Indigo.
To neutralize the sulphate of indigo.
Saxon or chemic GREEN.
Another indigo vat.
To dye cotton a FAST GREEN, with the cold indigo vat and weld.
Another cold BLUE vat for linen and cotton.
To dye cotton a FAST BUFF.
To dye cotton PINK.
To alum silk.
The BLUE vat of indigo for silk.
Another BLUE vat for silk.
To dye silk LILAC.
Another process for LILAC.
To dye silk a VIOLET or PURPLE with Logwood.
To dye silk VIOLET with Brazil wood and Logwood.
To dye silk VIOLET or PURPLE with Brazil wood and Archil.
The action of alum and tartar upon wool.
A pastil, or woad vat for BLUE.
To prepare the indigo mentioned in the preceding directions.
Rules to judge of the state of the woad vat.
Indications when a vat has had too much or too little lime.
To remedy the deficiency of lime.
To work a vat which is in proper order.
On the putrefaction of the woad vat.
Methods of dyeing BLUES.
To dye worsted yarn a CRIMSON.
The preparation of archil to finish the CRIMSON.
On dyeing wool SCARLET.
To dye wool MAROON.
To dye wool YELLOW.
To dye wool BROWN, or of a FAWN COLOUR.
To dye wool GREEN.
A chemic vat for GREEN WOOLLEN.
A chemic vat for BLUE WOOLLEN.
To dye wool BLACK.
Another process for BLACK without a blue ground.
To dye wool GREY.
Mixture of BLACK or GREY with RED and BLUE.
On the YELLOW of the Quercitron or American bark.
For a full BRIGHT YELLOW delicately inclining to a greenish tinge.
Bancroft's murio-sulphate of tin
To dye wool BUFF.
To dye wool PEACH.
To dye skein silk BLACK for velvets, Genoa process, (from Macquer.)
To dye silk BLACK, the London process.
On dyeing cotton BLACK at Rouen, (from D'Apligny.)
To dye cotton BLACK—the London process—used by various calico printers in the suburbs.
For dyeing BLACK (particularly cotton velvets) at Manchester.
On dyeing silk and cotton BLACK with a blue ground.
Another iron liquor; pyrolignite or acetate of iron.
To dye cotton BLACK, by using the preceding solution.
To dye cotton VIOLET.
To dye cotton RED.
To dye cotton an ADRIANOPLE or TURKEY RED.
Miscellaneous observations relative to Adrianople red.
To dye skein cotton YELLOW.
On dyeing and re-dyeing cotton furniture YELLOW.
To dye cotton skein a DUCK'S WING GREEN and OLIVE.
Observations on SILK.
On ungumming and boiling silk.
Whitening.
Sulphuring.
On aluming silk.
Skein silk for YELLOW.
Preparation of annatto for AURORA, ORANGE, MOIDORE, GOLD COLOUR and CHAMOIS.
To dye silk AURORA or ORANGE.
To dye MOIDORE.
Process for ORANGE.
To dye silk POPPY, called by the French COQUELICOT.
A cheaper POPPY with annatto and Brazil wood.
On dyeing silk a FINE CRIMSON.
Composition for dyeing silk SCARLET or CRIMSON with cochineal.
Another process for CRIMSON.
Crimson by Brazil wood.
Of fine VIOLET.
Observations on CRIMSON and SCARLET upon silk.
Muriate of tin
On dyeing silk GREEN.
OLIVES.
On dyeing silk GREY.
NUT-GREY.
BLACK-GREYS.
IRON-GREY.
On dyeing silk of a PRUSSIAN-BLUE COLOUR.
Chromate of lead for YELLOW on SILK and COTTON.
Conclusion.
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