The Dyer's Instructer [sic]; comprising practical instructions in the art of dyeing silk, cotton, wool, and worsted and woollen goods, as single and two-coloured damasks, moreens, camlets, lastings, shot cobourgs, silk striped orleans, plain orleans from white and coloured warps, merinos, wollens, yarns, &c., containing nearly 800 receipts : to which is added a treatise on the art of padding : and the printing of silk warps, skeins, and handkerchiefs, and the various mordants and colours for the different styles of such work.

SMITH (David)

Published by London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1857

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Second edition, 12mo, xii, 5-364pp., with 21 mounted samples of dyed fabric specimens, unobtrusive marginal water-staining to first and last 3 leaves, inner hinges shaken, orig. publishers red embossed cloth, lower joint worn through to boards. First published in 1850 without specimens, this second edition adds' nearly 100 additional receipts, with dyed patterns affixed.' Armorial bookplate of J. Schofield, Milnrow, Lancashire, to rear endpaper.

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• Title: The Dyer's Instructer [sic]; comprising practical instructions in the art of dyeing silk, cotton, wool, and worsted and woollen goods, as single and two-coloured damasks, moreens, camlets, lastings, shot cobourgs, silk striped orleans, plain orleans from white and coloured warps, merinos, wollens, yarns, &c., containing nearly 800 receipts : to which is added a treatise on the art of padding : and the printing of silk warps, skeins, and handkerchiefs, and the various mordants and colours for ...
• Publisher: London: Simpkin and Marshall
• Publication Date: 1857
• Binding: Hardcover