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

Chapter 132: Transcriber's Notes
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About This Book

A practical manual outlines plant-based dyeing for textile fibers, combining botanical descriptions, chemical explanations and step-by-step recipes. It surveys characteristics of wool, silk, cotton and linen; explains mordants and dyeing principles; catalogs British dye plants and lichen sources; and presents color-specific procedures for blues, reds, yellows, browns, blacks and greens. Detailed recipes include vat preparations, extract methods and adjustments for depth and fastness, plus separate guidance for dyeing cotton and silk. The volume concludes with a glossary and bibliography to support practical use and further study.

Transcriber's Notes

Original spelling, capitalization, hyphenation, and punctuation have been retained from the original book except for the following changes:

Page 3: Repeated "in" deleted. (3rd.—The wool is boiled with the mordant and dye in the same bath together.)

Page 18: Added closing quote to blockquote (luster to the colours.")

Page 25: Changed comma to period after ozs. (12 fluid ozs. of water)

Page 34: The period was removed after 28 per cent for consistency.

Page 34: The typographical error "w ash" was changed to "wash."

Page 50: Under (5) YELLOW: "described for silk (page 73)", the reference to page 73 could possibly be referring to page 56, mordanting silk in general, or to page 57, where mordanting of yellow is detailed.

Page 65 (Index): Crottle, Crotal: The duplicate page 20 was removed.

Page 66 (Index): Lixiviation was changed to Lixivitation.

Page 68: Color was changed to colour (Tan colour fr. lichen) for consistency.

A space or nonbreaking space has been added before each lb. and oz. and the space removed between ° and F. or C. for consistency.