Vegetable Dyes

About this eBook

Author

Mairet, Ethel, 1872-1952

Title

Vegetable Dyes: Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer

Credits

E-text prepared by Julie Barkley, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

TP: Technology: Chemical technology

Subject

Dye plants

Category

Text

eBook-No.

24076

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24076

Release Date

December 30, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Vegetable Dyes — Being a book of Recipes and other information useful to the Dyer — by — ETHEL M. MAIRET — FABER AND FABER LTD 24 Russell Square London
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.WOOL SILK COTTON AND LINEN — WATER — TO WASH WOOL — SILK — COTTON — LINEN
4. 4.MORDANTS — ALUM — IRON — TIN — CHROME — COPPER
5. 5.BRITISH DYE PLANTS — PLANTS WHICH DYE RED — PLANTS WHICH DYE BLUE — PLANTS WHICH DYE YELLOW — PLANTS WHICH DYE GREEN — PLANTS WHICH DYE BROWN — PLANTS WHICH DYE PURPLE — PLANTS WHICH DYE BLACK — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.THE LICHEN DYES — RECIPES FOR DYEING WITH LICHENS — LIST OF LICHENS USED BY THE PEASANTRY OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES FOR WOOL DYEING [D] — SHADES OF RED, PURPLE AND ORANGE — SHADES OF BROWN — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.BLUE — INDIGO, WOAD, LOGWOOD — INDIGO — TO MAKE EXTRACT OF INDIGO — INDIGO EXTRACT (4 to 6 lbs. wool). — INDIGO VAT (TIN) FOR WOOL — HYDROSULPHITE-SODA VAT FOR WOOL — WOAD — LOGWOOD — RECIPES for DYEING with LOGWOOD — (1). BLACK — (2). LAVENDER — (3). A FAST LOGWOOD BLUE — (4). RAVEN GREY FOR WOOL — (5). DARK RED PURPLE WITH LOGWOOD — (6) PURPLE — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.RED — KERMES COCHINEAL MADDER — KERMES — COCHINEAL — (1). PURPLE, CRIMSON AND SCARLET — (2). SCARLET — (3). SCARLET — (4). CRIMSON — (5). ROSE RED — (6). PURPLE (for 5 lbs.) — MADDER — (1) RED — (2) ROSE RED — (3) BROWN — (4) RED BROWN — BRAZIL WOODS
9. 9.YELLOW — WELD OLD FUSTIC TURMERIC QUERCITRON DYER'S BROOM HEATHER AND OTHER YELLOW DYES — (1) OLD GOLD — (2) YELLOW — (3) ORANGE — OLD FUSTIC — RECIPES FOR DYEING WITH OLD FUSTIC — (1) OLD GOLD — (2) OLD GOLD — (3) BRIGHT YELLOW — (4) GREENISH YELLOW — (5) YELLOW — TURMERIC — QUERCITRON — YELLOW (1 lb.) — ORANGE WITH FLAVIN OR QUERCITRON (1 lb.) — BARBERRY — DYER'S BROOM — PRIVET — HEATHER — ONION SKINS
10. 10.BROWN AND BLACK — CATECHU ALDER BARK SUMACH WALNUT PEAT SOOT LOGWOOD AND OTHER DYES — CATECHU — LIGHT GREY — CATECHU BROWN — ALDER BARK — SUMACH — WALNUT — VARIOUS RECIPES
11. 11.GREEN — RECIPES FOR DYEING GREEN — (1) GREEN WITH QUERCITRON FOR WOOL — (2) WITH INDIGO EXTRACT AND WELD FOR WOOL — (3) GREEN FOR WOOL — (4) GRASS GREEN — (5) JADE GREEN (1 lb.)
12. 12.THE DYEING OF COTTON — BOILING OUT — MORDANTS — RECIPES FOR DYEING — (1) INDIGO VAT — (2) LIME COPPERAS VAT — (3) RED — (4) RED — (5) YELLOW — (6) YELLOW — (7) ORANGE — (8) BROWN — (9) BLACK — THE ZINC-LIME INDIGO VAT
13. 13.THE DYEING OF SILK — RECIPES FOR DYEING — (1) INDIGO VAT FOR BLUE — (2) INDIGO EXTRACT FOR BLUE — (3) CRIMSON — (4) MADDER RED — (5) YELLOW — (6) GREEN — (7) PURPLE — (8) ORANGE (1 lb.) — (9) BLACK (1 lb.) — (10) BLACK — (11) GREY WITH BRACKEN (1 lb.) — (12) BROWN WITH LICHEN (1 lb.) — (13) ORANGE (1 lb.) — (14) BLACK (1 lb.) — (15) YELLOW (1 lb.) — (16) RED (1 lb.) — (17) BROWN (1 lb.) — (18) RED (1 lb.)
14. 14.GLOSSARY
15. 15.BIBLIOGRAPHY
16. 16.INDEX — Transcriber's Notes

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