Elements of the art of dyeing ... / by M. Berthollet ; Translated from the French by William Hamilton.

  • Claude Louis Berthollet
Date:
1791
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Credit: Elements of the art of dyeing ... / by M. Berthollet ; Translated from the French by William Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    we muft confider, what they would be at Paris, if the falary of the public offices was fifteen fous per day. “ Many of them (the Athenians) went bare- “ footed. The drefs of the people was made “ of cloth which had received no dye, and “ which might be waffied (reblanchir). The (< rich preferred coloured cloths c; they efteem- <f ed fuch as were dyed fcarlet by means of “ certain grains of a reddifh colour ; but they €C valued ftill more highly thofe of a purple “ dye. Silk, which is fubje&ed to the greateft variety of the proceffes in dyeing, cornes originally from China. The annals of that nation inform us, that the wife of the erhperor Hoang Ti, was the firft who fpun threads from the natural filk cocoons, found on the trees. From this country, filk was carried into Indoftan, and thence to Perfia, Greece, and Rome, where however it was not known till a very confider- able time after the firft employment of it. Some hâve concluded from a line in Virgil’s Georgicsd, that it was in ufe at Rome in the time of Auguftus. What Pliny fays on the c Voyage du jeune Anacharfis. d Vclleraquc ut foliis dépeçant tenuia Seres Georg. lib. ii. fubjetf