The Dyer's Guide. Chapter V. On Dyeing Silk And Cotton Black, &c. To dye cotton black, by using the preceding solution (pyrolignite or acetate of iron).

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.

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Paternoster-Row.
1830.
Prepare the cotton as usual, by giving it a blue ground; gall it, and pass it through a bath of the solution of pyrolignite of iron diluted with lukewarm water. Renew the gallings and the passings through the bath of pyrolignite of iron till a deep and brilliant black is obtained. Finish by passing the cotton through olive oil thus: throw on some lukewarm water a little olive oil, pass the cotton through it; the cotton absorbs the oil, but it must be worked a long time in the bath to diffuse the oil equally. Dry in the shade. The cotton is now a perfect and very durable black.

Every time the bath of pyrolignite is used, what remains must be thrown away; the old baths are never added to the cask.

The application of oil, which heightens the black, and imparts softness to the stuffs, is given to such articles as cotton velvet by means of brushes, which are slightly imbued with it. Berthollet.

We may add here, that an iron liquor called tar-iron liquor, prepared from the acid obtained from tar, (the acetic acid we presume) is now well known in commerce, but we have not room, nor does it appear necessary, to describe the method of making it; it is much used in preparing mordants for black and other colours by the dyers and printers of silk. This iron liquor may be obtained of Blake, North Street, Back Church Lane, St. George's in the East, London. See M'Kernan.