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

• 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]