A long encyclopedia article on the art of dyeing, covering textile fibres (silk, wool, cotton, flax) and other materials. It opens with a history from biblical and ancient Egyptian, Indian, Greek and Tyrian purple practice through Italy (Rosetti's Plictho), the Gobelins and Colbert's regulations. It then covers the theory of colour and affinity, mordants such as alum, tin and iron, and fibre preparation (scouring, fulling, galling). The main body gives dyeing methods for each colour (red, scarlet, yellow, blue, black, brown, green, purple, orange) on wool, silk, and cotton and linen, with dye-stuffs including madder, cochineal, kermes, lac, weld, quercitron, indigo, woad and logwood. It ends with calico-printing and a paragraph-numbered index.

Type

Article

Date

1828

Language

English

Pages

40