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

Author: Ethel M. Mairet

Release Date: December 30, 2007 [eBook #24076]

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
All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Wool, Silk, Cotton and Linen 1

II. Mordants 6

III. British Dye Plants 11

IV. The Lichen Dyes 16

V. Blue 24

VI. Red 31

VII. Yellow 35

VIII. Brown and Black 40

IX. Green 43

X. The Dyeing of Cotton 46

XI. The Dyeing of Silk 56

Glossary 60

Bibliography 63

Index 65

CHAPTER I

WOOL SILK COTTON AND LINEN

WOOLS are of various kinds:--

_Highland, Welsh and Irish_ wools are from small sheep, not far
removed from the wild state, with irregular short stapled fleeces.

_Forest or Mountain sheep_ (Herdwick, Exmoor, Cheviot, Bl