A 1907 article from Posselt's Textile Journal describing how artificial dyes are made from coal tar. It covers distillation of coal tar into light oil, heavy oil and naphthalene fractions, and the purification and nitration of benzene and toluene to give nitrobenzene and nitrotoluols. It also covers conversion to aniline and toluidine and the extraction of phenol (carbolic acid). The second page is the end of an installment of a knitting article on the plain stitch and needle loop formation.