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

by Thomas Packer

INDEX

• Acetate of alumina, [8], [36]
  • copper, [16]
  • lead, [17]
• Acid, the acetic, [33]
  • carbonic, [32]
  • Gallic, [10]
  • muriatic, [12]
  • nitric, ib.
  • nitro-muriatic, [13]
  • pyrolignous, [33]
  • sulphuric, [15]
  • Tartaric, [33]
• Acids, what, [31]
• Adjective colours, [27]
• Adrianople red, [117]
• Albumen, [24]
• Alcohol, what, and how obtained, [25]
• Alkali, volatile, [23], [30]
• Alkalies, the fixed, [14], [30]
• Alum, common, [7]
  • roche, ib.
• Alumina, ib.
  • acetate of, [8]
• American bark, [15]
• Ammonia, [23]
  • carbonate of, ib.
• Animal substances, analysis of, [18]
  • oil, [24]
• Annatto, preparation of, [136]
• Aqua fortis, [13]
  • regia, ib.
• Archil, [8]
• Argol, ib.
• Aurora, to dye silk, [137]
• Azotic gas, [29]

• 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]
• 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]
• 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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