A 16-page extract (pp. 31-46) on the art of dyeing from Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes. It opens with general principles of dyeing: preparing fibres, mordants and dye-baths. It then gives numbered receipts for preparing dye materials (annotto, catechu, indigo, tin spirits, copper solutions), preparing and bleaching cotton yarn, indigo vat dyeing, and a French process for Turkey-red. The remainder gives color receipts for cotton, wool and silk (blacks, browns, blues, greens, yellows, purples, crimsons, drabs) and for mixed goods dyed in one process.

Three-page excerpt from Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes (pp. 175-177) giving numbered receipts 1715-1731 for bleaching and decolorizing. It covers cotton, wool, silk, straw, sponge, feathers, woolen rags, lac, shellac and gutta percha, using lye, chloride bleaching liquor, sours, and sulphurous acid (sulphuring). It also includes a table for diluting bleaching liquor by Twaddell strength and receipts for decolorizing charcoals.

Two pages of numbered recipes (nos. 303-336) from Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes, giving small-scale household dyeing instructions. Most cover dyeing wool, worsted, silk and some cotton in black, brown, blue, claret, crimson, green, mauve, magenta, plum and scarlet, with quantities and boiling times. The second page adds recipes for dyeing feathers, aniline red and blue, and dyeing and stiffening hats.