CONTENTS

CHAPTER I WOOL SILK COTTON AND LINEN

CHAPTER II MORDANTS

CHAPTER III BRITISH DYE PLANTS

CHAPTER IV THE LICHEN DYES

CHAPTER V BLUE INDIGO, WOAD, LOGWOOD INDIGO

CHAPTER VI RED KERMES COCHINEAL MADDER KERMES

CHAPTER VII YELLOW WELD OLD FUSTIC TURMERIC QUERCITRON DYER'S BROOM HEATHER AND OTHER YELLOW DYES

CHAPTER VIII BROWN AND BLACK CATECHU ALDER BARK SUMACH WALNUT PEAT SOOT LOGWOOD AND OTHER DYES CATECHU

CHAPTER IX GREEN

CHAPTER X THE DYEING OF COTTON

CHAPTER XI THE DYEING OF SILK

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Title: Vegetable Dyes

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

Author: Ethel M. Mairet

Language: English

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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

First published in Mcmxvi
by the Ditchling Press
Reprinted, for the sixth time April Mcmxxxviii
and published by Faber and Faber Limited
24 Russell Square, London
Printed at the Ditchling Press, Ditchling
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