Dyes and dyeing

Natural and Synthetic Indigo—Properties and Application—Vat Dyeing, Old and Modern—Dyeing Directions—The Modern Vat Colors—Their Properties and Uses—Selected Dyestuffs—Fastness...

When a new text-book is offered to an innocent and long-suffering public about such an ancient subject as Dyes and Dyeing, it is, perhaps, the very least that the author can do,...

There has been so much said and written about the beauty and value of the old-fashioned dyestuffs and dyeing processes and their superiority to the modern coloring matters, that...

The whole art and practice of dyeing was completely revolutionized once and forever, by the discovery in 1856 of the artificial dyestuff named mauveine, or, more commonly, mauve...

Among the many changes made in the art of dyeing since the introduction of the coal-tar dyestuffs, perhaps the most important has been the gradual overcoming of the necessity fo...

Directly the student has mastered the instruction contained in the three previous chapters, and can use the dyeing apparatus and the unmixed dyestuffs so as to get reasonably fa...

Nearly thirty years ago one of the French color houses put on the market a new dyestuff which it named “Cachou de Laval”; Cachou being the same as catechu or “cutch,” the natura...

=History.=—Most of the colors of this group have been discovered and put on the market within the last two years. Thus they form the most recent as well as, in many respects, th...

In an earlier chapter it was mentioned that the modern dyestuffs originated with the discovery by Perkin, in 1856, of the violet coloring matter known as Mauveine. This dye was...

The discovery and introduction into commerce of Mauveine and the other Basic dyes, focussed the attention of chemists, all over the world, upon this new and important applicatio...

The use of feathers and, especially, of ostrich feathers for millinery has, during the past few years, increased to enormous proportions. Besides the home product, from Californ...

So far as can be learned, in every part of the world, the first materials used by man for clothing and coverings were the skins of animals. In its natural condition, however, th...

So far as we can tell, silk was first discovered and manufactured in China about 1700 B.C., a date corresponding in Biblical history to the time of the patriarch Joseph. From Ch...

The dyeing process described in the last chapter, while well suited for dyeing silk bright and lustrous colors, is not so well adapted to dyeing it black. To be sure, there are...

Owing to the high price of pure silk and the bad wearing qualities of the highly adulterated silks, described in the last chapter, there has been for a long time a strong demand...

Hitherto, in this book, the student has been instructed in the general art of dyeing and coloring the various fabrics, both in the yarn and in piece, without any attention to th...

=History.=—During the last few years a great deal of attention has been paid to the manufacture and use of stencils for decorating textiles, not only by craft workers of differe...

Travelers in Japan inform us that, with their customary ingenuity, the natives there have developed the use of stencils to a point which quite matches the best achievements of o...

The last and perhaps the most interesting and most important process to which we shall call our reader’s attention is one which, after being practised in the East for many centu...

In Chapter II of this book it has been explained how the dyeing industry of the whole world was changed by the discovery and commercial preparation of the first aniline dyestuff...