A trade pocket guide issued by the Badische Company (US importers of Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik products) giving recipes and practical instructions for applying BASF coal-tar dyestuffs. Chapters cover wool, cotton, silk, unions, satin, ramie, feathers and other fibres, including preparation, bleaching, acid, chrome-mordant, Indigo vat and Indanthrene vat dyeing, and substantive, sulphur and basic dyes. Tables classify dyestuffs by fastness to light, milling, carbonising and mercerising, and an appendix lists mordants, chemicals and hard-water correction tables. Quantities are in English measures, Twaddle degrees and Fahrenheit.