The Dyer's Guide
Being a Compendium of the Art of Dyeing
Linen, Cotton, Silk, Wool, Muslin, Dresses, Furniture, &c. &c.
With The Method of
Scouring Wool, Bleaching Cotton, &c.
And
Directions for Ungumming Silk, And For Whitening And Sulphuring Silk And Wool.
And Also
An Inttroductory Epitome of The Leading Facts in Chemistry, As Connected With The Art of Dyeing.
By Thomas Packer,
Dyer and Practical Chemist.
"Cet arte est un des plus utiles et des plus merveilleux qu'on connoisse."
- Chaptal.
"There is no art which depends so much on chemistry as dyeing."
- Garnett.
Second Edition,
Corrected and Materially Improved.
London:
Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, And Piper,
Paternoster-Row.
1830.
The same blue vat will do for green; but it is best to make another by putting only eight ounces of indigo instead of twelve to four pounds of sulphuric acid. If the preparation has been made two or three months it is the better, having been often stirred before it was neutralized with the alkali.
* The difference between decoction and infusion should be always carefully observed: a decoction is made by boiling the ingredient or ingredients in any liquor; an infusion is that in which the ingredients are put but not boiled. Prepare a strong decoction* of old fustic, which should always be ready at hand as a store, keeping plenty according to the work to be done, including cotton, silk, and worsted goods.
Mix some of the chemic blue with the decoction of fustic in the following manner: put into a tub six pails of soft clear water, to which add a pint of the neutralized blue, and six pails of the decoction of fustic; stir all well together. Some dyers add a little weak alum liquor till it just tastes before they put in the blue; it should be but little, otherwise it will precipitate the fustic. This mixture should stand two hours to settle.
The muslin or calico, say two pieces of twenty-four yards each, should, with the usual precautions, be passed through a strong decoction of old fustic or tumeric as hot as the hand will bear. They are then to be taken out and submitted to a quantity of the green mixture above described, in proportion to the fulness of the green required. When finished, whether for the calenderer or glazer, they should be dried in a moderately warm stove.
These two colours are very fugitive, especially upon cotton goods; but sometimes the customer will not go to the price of the fast green or blue, hereafter to be described.
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