Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Bleaching And Scouring

4 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Mordants and Dye-Stuffs

folio of a ledger had exhibited the marks of candle- | It may be applied with a soft sponge or a piece grease and the snuff for more than…

Preliminary Remarks (Art of dyeing has)

The art of dyeing has for its object the fixing permanently of a color of a definite shade upon stuffs. The stuffs are animal, as silk…

Mordants

The principal mordants are alum, cubic-alum, acetate of alumina, protochloride of tin, bichloride of tin, sulphate of iron, acetate of…

Dye-Stuffs

The materials used in dyeing are numerous; the following are the most important: Madder, indigo, logwood, quercitron or oak-bark…

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