Process of adding color to textile products like fibers, yarns, and fabrics

Banquet in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin : Delmonico's, October 6, 1906.

Textiles: tapestry dyeing, a furnace (top), fuel wood on a barrow or handcart (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.

Dyeing: dyers' and fullers' mills for extracting plant dyes. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.

Textiles: tapestry dyeing, a vat and other utensils for indigo. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

The Golden cabinet: being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts . Containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant: and will afford both profit and delight. Part the first[-third].

The art of dying wool and woollen stuffs . By M. Hellot, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Translated from the French by order of the Dublin Society, and published at their expence, for the use of the dyers of Ireland.

11 pages, 5 folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

The art of dying wool, silk, and cotton. Translated from the French of M. Hellot, M. Macquer, and M. Le Pileur D'apligny

1 print : engraving ; image and border 31.9 x 41.4 cm

Textiles: silk dyeing, washing cloth in a river (top), a spar used for winding silk thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

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Dyes and dyeing

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The Golden cabinet: being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts . Containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant: and will afford both profit and delight. Part the first[-third].

The art of dying wool and woollen stuffs . By M. Hellot, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Translated from the French by order of the Dublin Society, and published at their expence, for the use of the dyers of Ireland.

Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

The art of dying wool, silk, and cotton. Translated from the French of M. Hellot, M. Macquer, and M. Le Pileur D'apligny

Textiles: silk dyeing, washing cloth in a river (top), a spar used for winding silk thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Dyes and dyeing

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The Golden cabinet: being the laboratory, or handmaid to the arts . Containing such branches of useful knowledge, as nearly concerns all kinds of people, from the squire to the peasant: and will afford both profit and delight. Part the first[-third].

The art of dying wool and woollen stuffs . By M. Hellot, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Translated from the French by order of the Dublin Society, and published at their expence, for the use of the dyers of Ireland.

Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

The art of dying wool, silk, and cotton. Translated from the French of M. Hellot, M. Macquer, and M. Le Pileur D'apligny

Textiles: silk dyeing, washing cloth in a river (top), a spar used for winding silk thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

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