On the Means of dying Linen and Cotton a beautiful, deep, and lasting black Colour
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An 1798 article from The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, translated from Crell's Chemical Annals, in which Mr. Vogler of Weilburg describes a five-step process for dyeing linen and cotton a deep, lasting black. The steps are a mordant of litharge dissolved in nitric acid (aquafortis) followed by a glue-water dip, a gall decoction with salt, a copperas (iron vitriol) bath, a logwood and starch decoction, and a final fixing bath of galls, glue-water and copperas. It also gives substitutes for galls, notes on preparing yarn and skeins, and advice on vessels.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1798
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
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