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

• 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]