PART II., SYNTHESIS AND COMPOUNDS.--=Science of Mixing=--=Bodies=:

Porcelain--Hard, Porcelain--Fritted Bodies, Porcelain--Raw Bodies, Porcelain--Soft, Fritted Bodies, Raw Bodies, Stone Bodies, Ironstone, Dry Bodies, Chemical Utensils, Fritted Jasper, Fritted Pearl, Fritted Drab, Raw Chemical Utensils, Raw Stone, Raw Jasper, Raw Pearl, Raw Mortar, Raw Drab, Raw Brown, Raw Fawn, Raw Cane, Raw Red Porous, Raw Egyptian, Earthenware, Queen's Ware, Cream Colour, Blue and Fancy Printed, Dipped and Mocha, Chalky, Rings, Stilts, etc.--=Glazes=: Porcelain--Hard Fritted Porcelain--Soft Fritted Porcelain--Soft Raw, Cream Colour Porcelain, Blue Printed Porcelain, Fritted Glazes, Analysis of Fritt, Analysis of Glaze, Coloured Glazes, Dips, Smears and Washes; =Glasses=: Flint Glass, Coloured Glasses, Artificial Garnet, Artificial Emerald, Artificial Amethyst, Artificial Sapphire, Artificial Opal, Plate Glass, Crown Glass, Broad Glass, Bottle Glass, Phosphoric Glass, British Steel Glass, Glass-Staining and Painting, Engraving on Glass, Dr. Faraday's Experiments--=Colours=: Colour Making, Fluxes or Solvents, Components of the Colours; =Reds, etc., from Gold=, Carmine or Rose Colour, Purple, Reds, etc., from Iron, Blues, Yellows, Greens, Blacks, White, Silver for Burnishing, Gold for Burnishing, Printer's Oil, Lustres.

TABLES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES.

Glassware, Glass Staining and Painting.

=RECIPES FOR FLINT GLASS MAKING.= By a British Glass Master and Mixer. Sixty Recipes. Being Leaves from the Mixing Book of several experts in the Flint Glass Trade, containing up-to-date recipes and valuable information as to Crystal, Demi-crystal and Coloured Glass in its many varieties. It contains the recipes for cheap metal suited to pressing, blowing, etc., as well as the most costly crystal and ruby. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price for United Kingdom, 10s. 6d.; Abroad, 15s.; United States, $4; strictly net.

Contents.

Ruby--Ruby from Copper--Flint for using with the Ruby for Coating--A German Metal--Cornelian, or Alabaster--Sapphire Blue--Crysophis--Opal--Turquoise Blue--Gold Colour--Dark Green--Green (common)--Green for Malachite--Blue for Malachite--Black for Melachite--Black--Common Canary Batch--Canary--White Opaque Glass--Sealing-wax Red--Flint--Flint Glass (Crystal and Demi)--Achromatic Glass--Paste Glass--White Enamel--Firestone--Dead White (for moons)--White Agate--Canary--Canary Enamel--Index.

=A TREATISE ON THE ART OF GLASS PAINTING.= Prefaced with a Review of Ancient Glass. By ERNEST R. SUFFLING. With One Coloured Plate and Thirty-seven Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 140 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.

Contents.

A Short History of Stained Glass--Designing Scale Drawings--Cartoons and the Cut Line--Various Kinds of Glass Cutting for Windows--The Colours and Brushes used in Glass Painting--Painting on Glass, Dispersed Patterns--Diapered Patterns--Aciding--Firing--Fret Lead Glazing--Index.

=PAINTING ON GLASS AND PORCELAIN AND ENAMEL PAINTING.= A Complete Introduction to the Preparation of all the Colours and Fluxes used for Painting on Porcelain, Enamel, Faïence and Stoneware, the Coloured Pastes and Coloured Glasses, together with a Minute Description of the Firing of Colours and Enamels. By FELIX HERMANN, Technical Chemist. With Eighteen Illustrations. 300 pp. Translated from the German second and enlarged Edition. 1897. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

Contents.

History of Glass Painting--The Articles to be Painted: Glass, Porcelain, Enamel, Stoneware, Faïence--Pigments: Metallic Pigments: Antimony Oxide, Naples Yellow, Barium Chromate, Lead Chromate, Silver Chloride, Chromic Oxide--Fluxes: Fluxes, Felspar, Quartz, Purifying Quartz, Sedimentation, Quenching, Borax, Boracic Acid, Potassium and Sodium Carbonates, Rocaille Flux--Preparation of the Colours for Glass Painting--The Colour Pastes--The Coloured Glasses--Composition of the Porcelain Colours--The Enamel Colours: Enamels for Artistic Work--Metallic Ornamentation: Porcelain Gilding, Glass Gilding--Firing the Colours: Remarks on Firing: Firing Colours on Glass, Firing Colours on Porcelain; The Muffle--Accidents occasionally Supervening during the Process of Firing--Remarks on the Different Methods of Painting on Glass, Porcelain, etc.--Appendix: Cleaning Old Glass Paintings.

Paper Staining.

=THE DYEING OF PAPER PULP.= A Practical Treatise for the use of Papermakers, Paper-stainers, Students and others. By JULIUS ERFURT, Manager of a Paper Mill. Translated into English and Edited with Additions by JULIUS HÜBNER, F.C.S., Lecturer on Papermaking at the Manchester Municipal Technical School. With Illustrations and =157 patterns of paper dyed in the pulp=. Royal 8vo., 180 pp. 1901. Price 15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 20s.; strictly net. Limited edition.

Contents.

=Behaviour of the Paper Fibres during the Process of Dyeing, Theory of the Mordant=--=Colour Fixing Mediums (Mordants)=--=Influence of the Quality of the Water Used=--=Inorganic Colours=--=Organic Colours=--=Practical Application of the Coal Tar Colours according to their Properties and their Behaviour towards the Different Paper Fibres=--=Dyed Patterns on Various Pulp Mixtures=--=Dyeing to Shade=--Index.

Enamelling on Metal.

=ENAMELS AND ENAMELLING.= For Enamel Makers, Workers in Gold and Silver, and Manufacturers of Objects of Art. By PAUL RANDAU. Translated from the German. With Sixteen Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 180 pp. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

Contents.

Composition and Properties of Glass--Raw Materials for the Manufacture of Enamels--Substances Added to Produce Opacity--Fluxes--Pigments--Decolorising Agents--Testing the Raw Materials with the Blow-pipe Flame--Subsidiary Materials--Preparing the Materials for Enamel Making--Mixing the Materials--The Preparation of Technical Enamels, The Enamel Mass--Appliances for Smelting the Enamel Mass--Smelting the Charge--Composition of Enamel Masses--Composition of Masses for Ground Enamels--Composition of Cover Enamels--Preparing the Articles for Enamelling--Applying the Enamel--Firing the Ground Enamel--Applying and Firing the Cover Enamel or Glaze--Repairing Defects in Enamelled Ware--Enamelling Articles of Sheet Metal--Decorating Enamelled Ware--Specialities in Enamelling--Dial-plate Enamelling--Enamels for Artistic Purposes, Recipes for Enamels of Various Colours--Index.

=THE ART OF ENAMELLING ON METAL.= By W. NORMAN BROWN. Twenty-eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 60 pp. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.

Silk Manufacture.

=SILK THROWING AND WASTE SILK SPINNING.= By HOLLINS RAYNER. Demy 8vo. 170 pp. 117 Illus. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

Contents.

The Silkworm--Cocoon Reeling and Qualities of Silk--Silk Throwing--Silk Wastes--The Preparation of Silk Waste for Degumming--Silk Waste Degumming, Schapping and Discharging--The Opening and Dressing of Wastes--Silk Waste "Drawing" or "Preparing" Machinery--Long Spinning--Short Spinning--Spinning and Finishing Processes--Utilisation of Waste Products--Noil Spinning--Exhaust Noil Spinning.

Books on Textile and Dyeing Subjects.

=THE CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTILE FIBRES=: Their Origin, Structure, Preparation, Washing, Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing and Dressing. By Dr. GEORG VON GEORGIEVICS. Translated from the German by CHARLES SALTER. 320 pp. Forty-seven Illustrations. Royal 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s. net.

Contents.

=The Textile Fibres--Washing, Bleaching, Carbonising--Mordants and Mordanting--Dyeing--Printing--Dressing and Finishing.=

=POWER-LOOM WEAVING AND YARN NUMBERING=, According to Various Systems, with Conversion Tables. Translated from the German of ANTHON GRUNER. =With Twenty-Six Diagrams in Colours.= 150 pp. 1900. Crown 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

=Power-Loom Weaving in General.= Various Systems of Looms--=Mounting and Starting the Power-Loom=. English Looms--Tappet or Treadle Looms--Dobbies--=General Remarks on the Numbering, Reeling and Packing of Yarn=--=Appendix=--=Useful Hints=. Calculating Warps--Weft Calculations--Calculations of Cost Price in Hanks.

=TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS AND THEIR CONVERSION INTO YARNS.= (The Study of the Raw Materials and the Technology of the Spinning Process.) By JULIUS ZIPSER. Translated from German by CHARLES SALTER. 302 Illustrations. 500 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

Contents.

=PART I.--The Raw Materials Used in the Textile Industry.=

MINERAL RAW MATERIALS. VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. ANIMAL RAW MATERIALS.

=PART II.--The Technology of Spinning or the Conversion of Textile Raw Materials into Yarn.=

SPINNING VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. Cotton Spinning--Installation of a Cotton Mill--Spinning Waste Cotton and Waste Cotton Yarns--Flax Spinning--Fine Spinning--Tow Spinning--Hemp Spinning--Spinning Hemp Tow String--Jute Spinning--Spinning Jute Line Yarn--Utilising Jute Waste.

=PART III.--Spinning Animal Raw Materials.=

Spinning Carded Woollen Yarn--Finishing Yarn--Worsted Spinning--Finishing Worsted Yarn--Artificial Wool or Shoddy Spinning--Shoddy and Mungo Manufacture--Spinning Shoddy and other Wool Substitutes--Spinning Waste Silk--Chappe Silk--Fine Spinning--Index.

=THE TECHNICAL TESTING OF YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS.= With Reference to Official Specifications. Translated from the German of Dr. J. HERZFELD. Second Edition. Sixty-nine Illustrations. 200 pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

Contents.

=Yarn Testing. Determining the Yarn Number--Testing the Length of Yarns--Examination of the External Appearance of Yarn--Determining the Twist of Yarn and Twist--Determination of Tensile Strength and Elasticity--Estimating the Percentage of Fat in Yarn--Determination of Moisture= (Conditioning)--=Appendix.=

=DECORATIVE AND FANCY TEXTILE FABRICS.= By R. T. LORD. Manufacturers and Designers of Carpets, Damask, Dress and all Textile Fabrics. 200 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. 132 Designs and Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--Hints for Ruled-paper Draughtsmen--The Jacquard Machine--Brussels and Wilton Carpets--Tapestry Carpets--Ingrain Carpets--Axminster Carpets--Damask and Tapestry Fabrics--Scarf Silks and Ribbons--Silk Handkerchiefs--Dress Fabrics--Mantle Cloths--Figured Plush--Bed Quilts--Calico Printing.

=THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DAMASK WEAVING.= By H. KINZER and K. WALTER. Royal 8vo. Eighteen Folding Plates. Six Illustrations. Translated from the German. 110 pp. 1903. Price 8s. 6d.; Colonies, 9s.; Other Countries, 9s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

=The Various Sorts of Damask Fabrics=--Drill (Ticking, Hand-loom-made)--Whole Damask for Tablecloths--Damask with Ground- and Connecting-warp Threads--Furniture Damask--Lampas or Hangings--Church Damasks--=The Manufacture of Whole Damask=--Damask Arrangement with and without Cross-Shedding--The Altered Cone-arrangement--The Principle of the Corner Lifting Cord--The Roller Principle--The Combination of the Jacquard with the so-called Damask Machine--The Special Damask Machine--The Combination of Two Tyings.

=FAULTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN GOODS AND THEIR PREVENTION.= By NICOLAS REISER. Translated from the Second German Edition. Crown 8vo. Sixty-three Illustrations. 170 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

Contents.

Improperly Chosen Raw Material or Improper Mixtures--Wrong Treatment of the Material in Washing, Carbonisation, Drying, Dyeing and Spinning--Improper Spacing of the Goods in the Loom--Wrong Placing of Colours--Wrong Weight or Width of the Goods--Breaking of Warp and Weft Threads--Presence of Doubles, Singles, Thick, Loose, and too Hard Twisted Threads as well as Tangles, Thick Knots and the Like--Errors in Cross-weaving--Inequalities, i.e., Bands and Stripes--Dirty Borders--Defective Selvedges--Holes and Buttons--Rubbed Places--Creases--Spots--Loose and Bad Colours--Badly Dyed Selvedges--Hard Goods--Brittle Goods--Uneven Goods--Removal of Bands, Stripes, Creases and Spots.

=SPINNING AND WEAVING CALCULATIONS=, especially relating to Woollens. From the German of N. REISER. Thirty-four Illustrations. Tables. Demy 8vo. 170 pp. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.

Contents.

Calculating the Raw Material--Proportion of Different Grades of Wool to Furnish a Mixture at a Given Price--Quantity to Produce a Given Length--Yarn Calculations--Yarn Number--Working Calculations--Calculating the Reed Count--Cost of Weaving, etc.

=WATERPROOFING OF FABRICS.= By Dr. S. MIERZINSKI. Crown 8vo. 104 pp. 29 Illus. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

Contents.

Introduction--Preliminary Treatment of the Fabric--Waterproofing with Acetate of Alumina--Impregnation of the Fabric--Drying--Waterproofing with Paraffin--Waterproofing with Ammonium Cuprate--Waterproofing with Metallic Oxides--Coloured Waterproof Fabrics--Waterproofing with Gelatine, Tannin, Caseinate of Lime and other Bodies--Manufacture of Tarpaulin--British Waterproofing Patents--Index.

=HOW TO MAKE A WOOLLEN MILL PAY.= By JOHN MACKIE. Crown 8vo. 76 pp. 1904. Price 3s. 6d.; Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; net.

Contents.

Blends, Piles, or Mixtures of Clean Scoured Wools--Dyed Wool Book--The Order Book--Pattern Duplicate Books--Management and Oversight--Constant Inspection of Mill Departments--Importance of Delivering Goods to Time, Shade, Strength, etc.--Plums.

(_For "Textile Soaps" see p. 32._)

Dyeing, Colour Printing, Matching and Dye-stuffs.

=THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS.= Manual for Colour Chemists and Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Seventeen Illustrations. 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

Structure and Constitution of Wool Fibre--Yarn Scouring--Scouring Materials--Water for Scouring--Bleaching Carpet Yarns--Colour Making for Yarn Printing--Colour Printing Pastes--Colour Recipes for Yarn Printing--Science of Colour Mixing--Matching of Colours--"Hank" Printing--Printing Tapestry Carpet Yarns--Yarn Printing--Steaming Printed Yarns--Washing of Steamed Yarns--Aniline Colours Suitable for Yarn Printing--Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn Printing--Appendix.

=THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR MIXING.= A Manual intended for the use of Dyers, Calico Printers and Colour Chemists. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Forty-one Illustrations, =Five Coloured Plates, and Four Plates showing Eleven Dyed Specimens of Fabrics=. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours of Opaque and Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour--Analysis of Light; Spectrum; Homogeneous Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining a Spectrum--Examination of Solar Spectrum; The Spectroscope and Its Construction; Colourists' Use of the Spectroscope--Colour by Absorption; Solutions and Dyed Fabrics; Dichroic Coloured Fabrics in Gaslight--Colour Primaries of the Scientist versus the Dyer and Artist; Colour Mixing by Rotation and Lye Dyeing; Hue, Purity, Brightness; Tints; Shades, Scales, Tones, Sad and Sombre Colours--Colour Mixing; Pure and Impure Greens, Orange and Violets; Large Variety of Shades from few Colours; Consideration of the Practical Primaries: Red, Yellow and Blue--Secondary Colours; Nomenclature of Violet and Purple Group; Tints and Shades of Violet; Changes in Artificial Light--Tertiary Shades; Broken Hues; Absorption Spectra of Tertiary Shades--Appendix: Four Plates with Dyed Specimens Illustrating Text--Index.

=DYERS' MATERIALS=: An Introduction to the Examination, Evaluation and Application of the most important Substances used in Dyeing, Printing, Bleaching and Finishing. By PAUL HEERMAN, Ph.D. Translated from the German by. A. C. WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Twenty-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 150 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

=COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES.= A Manual intended for the use of Students of Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and Textile Printing. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Coloured Frontispiece. Twenty-nine Illustrations and =Fourteen Specimens of Dyed Fabrics=. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye--Perception of Colour--Primary and Complementary Colour Sensations--Daylight for Colour Matching--Selection of a Good Pure Light--Diffused Daylight, Direct Sunlight, Blue Skylight, Variability of Daylight, etc., etc.--Matching of Hues--Purity and Luminosity of Colours--Matching Bright Hues--Aid of Tinted Films--Matching Difficulties Arising from Contrast--Examination of Colours by Reflected and Transmitted Lights--Effect of Lustre and Transparency of Fibres in Colour Matching--Matching of Colours on Velvet Pile--Optical Properties of Dye-stuffs. Dichroism. Fluorescence--Use of Tinted Mediums--Orange Film--Defects of the Eye--Yellowing of the Lens--Colour Blindness, etc.--Matching of Dyed Silk Trimmings and Linings and Bindings--Its Difficulties--Behaviour of Shades in Artificial Light--Colour Matching of Old Fabrics, etc.--Examination of Dyed Colours under the Artificial Lights--Electric Arc, Magnesium and Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene, etc.--Testing Qualities of an Illuminant--Influence of the Absorption Spectrum in Changes of Hue under the Artificial Lights--Study of the Causes of Abnormal Modifications of Hue, etc.

=COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR.= By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. =With Ten Coloured Plates= and Seventy-two Illustrations. 160 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

=Colour and Its Production--Cause of Colour in Coloured Bodies--Colour Phenomena and Theories--The Physiology of Light--Contrast--Colour in Decoration and Design--Measurement of Colour.=

=THE DYEING OF COTTON FABRICS=: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student. By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and Chemist. 272 pp. Forty-four Illustrations of Bleaching and Dyeing Machinery. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.

Contents.

Structure and Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre--Scouring and Bleaching of Cotton--Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations--Principles and Practice of Cotton Dyeing--Direct Dyeing; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Metallic Salts; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Developers; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Couplers; Dyeing on Tannic Mordant; Dyeing on Metallic Mordant; Production of Colour Direct upon Cotton Fibres; Dyeing Cotton by Impregnation with Dye-stuff Solution--Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton and Wool) Fabrics--Dyeing Half Silk (Cotton-Silk, Satin) Fabrics--Operations following Dyeing--Washing, Soaping, Drying--Testing of the Colour of Dyed Fabrics--Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing--Index.

The book contains numerous recipes for the production on Cotton Fabrics of all kinds of a great range of colours.

=THE DYEING OF WOOLLEN FABRICS.= By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and Chemist. Thirty-three Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 228 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.

Contents.

=The Wool Fibre--Structure, Composition and Properties--Processes Preparatory to Dyeing--Scouring and Bleaching of Wool--Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations--Loose Wool Dyeing, Yarn Dyeing and Piece Dyeing Machinery--The Principles and Practice of Wool Dyeing--Properties of Wool Dyeing--Methods of Wool Dyeing--Groups of Dyes--Dyeing with the Direct Dyes--Dyeing with Basic Dyes--Dyeing with Acid Dyes--Dyeing with Mordant Dyes--Level Dyeing--Blacks on Wool--Reds on Wool--Mordanting of Wool--Orange Shades on Wool--Yellow Shades on Wool--Green Shades on Wool--Blue Shades on Wool--Violet Shades on Wool--Brown Shades on Wool--Mode Colours on Wool--Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton Wool) Fabrics--Dyeing of Gloria--Operations following Dyeing--Washing, Soaping, Drying--Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing--Testing of the Colour of Dyed Fabrics--Index.=

Reissue of =THE ART OF DYEING WOOL, SILK AND COTTON=. Translated from the French of M. HELLOT, M. MACQUER and M. LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY. First Published in English in 1789. Six Plates. Demy 8vo. 446 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.

Contents.