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This page describes trade processes that use dangerously toxic materials such as cyanide solutions, mercury amalgams, or strong acids. These processes require training, equipment, and precautions far beyond what the text describes.
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Dyeing
Coal-Tar and Other New Colors
Coal-tar colors are made from aniline, carbolic or phenic acid and naphthaline, bodies obtained directly or indirectly from the…
Compound Colors
Solferino, aniline green, etc., are obtained from galls, 5 of sulphate of iron and 30 of logwood coal-tar. The silk is dyed without…
Dyeing Silks
Chevreul's Mode of Graduating Shades of Color | maining, and about a small wineglassful of the solution of tin; when cold; rinse it…
Dyeing
Take a sufficient quantity of Brazil-wood, sumach, bark, madder, and copperas, and sadden, according to the shade required. To Remove the…
Calico Printing (This art consists in dyeing)
This art consists in dyeing cloth with certain colors and figures upon a ground of a different hue; the colors, when they will not take…
Calico Printing (Second time The madder in C)
a second time. The madder in C being washed | is cut which is to be of some particular color. and precipitated, is equally good with the…
Dyeing, Staining, Etc
10 of green vitriol are added, and the liquor kept just simmering, or of a heat little below boiling. Ten or 12 dozen of hats are…
Staining, Etc
To Dye Bristles or Feathers Green. Take of verdigris and verditer, each 1 oz.; gumwater, 1 pt.. Mix them well, and dip the bristles or…
Red (Take oz of Brazil-wood)
Take 1 oz. of Brazil-wood in powder, oz. of alum, oz. of vermilion, and 1 pint of vinegar; boil them up to a moderate thickness, and dip…
Ebony-black
Steep the wood for 2 or 3 days in lukewarm water, in which a little alum has been dissolved; then put a handful of logwood, cut small, into…
Another (Pour qts of boiling water over)
Pour 2 qts. of boiling water over 1 oz. commercial extract of logwood, and when it is dissolved add 1 dr. of yellow chromate of potash, and…
Crimson (Boil lb of ground Brazil-wood)
Boil 1 lb. of ground Brazil-wood in 3 qts. of water for an hour; strain it, and add an oz. of cochineal; boil it again for an hour gently…
Bright green
Proceed as before to produce a yellow; but instead of aquafortis add as much of the vitriolated indigo as will produce the desired color…
Crimson (Very fine crimson stain may be)
A very fine crimson stain may be given to paper by a tincture of the Indian lake, which may be made by infusing the lake some days in…
Green (Paper or parchment may be)
Paper or parchment may be stained green by the solution of verdigris in vinegar, or by the crystals of verdigris dissolved in water…
Purple
Paper or parchment may be stained purple by archil, or by the tincture of logwood. The juice of ripe privet-berries expressed will likewise…
House Painting (To Black the Edges of Paper)
To Black the Edges of Paper. Mix black lead with ink, and when the paper is cut, color it thinly over with black ink, with a piece of fine…
House Painting (To Mix the Colors for House)
To Mix the Colors for House Painting. All simple or compound colors, and all the shades of color which nature or art can produce, and which…