The Domestic Dyer
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A 12-page American pamphlet of 1811 giving 21 numbered recipes ("receipts") for home dyeing of cotton, linen, yarn and some silk, in hot and cold dyebaths. Colors covered include blue (indigo vat, cold and hot), green, yellow, orange, flesh, red, brown, purple, dove, olive, slate and black. The recipes specify quantities of dyestuffs (indigo, logwood, fustic, madder, nutgalls, sumac, bark) and mordants or assists (alum, copperas, blue vitriol, pearlash, lye), plus instructions for handling, airing and rinsing the goods and for recruiting vats.
- Type
- Monograph
- Date
- 1811
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 12
- Archive notes
- Scanned from microfiche
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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