The Laboratory, Or, School of Arts: Containing a Large Collection of Valuable Secrets, Experiments, and Manual Operations in Arts and Manufactures : Highly Useful to Gilders, Jewelers, Enamellers, Goldsmiths, Dyers, Cutlers, Pewterers, Joiners, Japanners, Book Binders, Plasterers, Artists, and To.: Volume 2

Gilbert Gilbert

ISBN 10: 0371411033 / ISBN 13: 9780371411032

Published by HardPress Ltd, 2020

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• Title: The Laboratory, Or, School of Arts: Containing a Large Collection of Valuable Secrets, Experiments, and Manual Operations in Arts and Manufactures : Highly Useful to Gilders, Jewelers, Enamellers, Goldsmiths, Dyers, Cutlers, Pewterers, Joiners, Japanners, Book Binders, Plasterers, Artists, and To.: Volume 2
• Publisher: HardPress Ltd
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371411033
• ISBN 13: 9780371411032
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 526 grams

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The Laboratory, Or, School Of Arts: Containing A Large Collection Of Valuable Secrets, Experiments, And Manual Operations In Arts And Manufactures : Highly Useful To Gilders, Jewelers, Enamellers, Goldsmiths, Dyers, Cutlers, Pewterers, Joiners, Japanners, Book Binders, Plasterers, Artists, And To Unknown. A practical, historically informed manual on the art and science of dyeing textiles, surveying mordants, fibre chemistry, fibre preparation, and a wide range of dyeing recipes for wool, silk, cotton, and flax, with notes on calico printing and domestic dyeing for family use. Tracing the origins of dyeing from ancient India and Phoenician trade routes to Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the work highlights the role of mordants in fixing colours and surveys influential authorities and methods in the craft. It details fibre-specific approaches, dye-house practices, colour families (reds, yellows, blues, greens, purples, oranges, browns, blacks), and the procedural essence of recipes—temperatures, times, mordant proportions, and post-dye treatment—while signaling Part II and Part III of a broader arts and manufactures project.