The dyer's guide; being an introduction to the art of dying linen, cotton, silk, and wool, silk and muslin dresses, furniture, ... with an appendix of observations ... essential to the ... knowledge of the art / By Thomas Packer.

  • Packer, Thomas
Date:
1816
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Credit: The dyer's guide; being an introduction to the art of dying linen, cotton, silk, and wool, silk and muslin dresses, furniture, ... with an appendix of observations ... essential to the ... knowledge of the art / By Thomas Packer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    + Vi INTRODUCTION. art; but they could not communicate any information, excepting from the theory exist- ing in their time. I have borrowed all that is essential, in them, abbreviating, altering, and giving additions, according to the pre- sent improved state of chemistry, as far as was | possible, within the limits prescribed for this work, for it to be within the reach and pos- session of the most numerous class of dyers ; that is, journeymen and apprentices, in all the various branches of this truly extensive and mysterious art, as carried on in Lon- don, Norwich, Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, . and various sbi parts of the British do- minions. I have attended to no other arrangement than nearly following that of the title, taking cotton first, because of its having the least and fewest affinities for other bodies. Silk I have taken next into conside- ration, so far as its processes are similar to cotton, though silk has greater affinity to resinous substances, receiving a more beau- tifal dye from annatto, safflower, archil, &c. than cotton, and more permanent.
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