Sample book containing 158 fabric samples with displaying a wide variety of printed patterns with recipes and methods. The final pages of the book include a series of advertisements for several dyestuff companies.

Pamphlet containing 82 dyed fabric samples organized in a table. The table provides the trade name of the dye used, application instructions, and colorfastness observations. Dyes shown include diazo dyes, trisazo dyes,…

Sample book from the Bayer Company, Inc.--the North American extension of the German company, Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co.--containing mounted dyed wool thread and swatch samples. Bayer & Co. was the first…

Sample book containing dyeing instructions and 54 mounted fabric swatches dyed with National Aniline & Chemical Company manufactured dyes. Consists of one cardboard leaf that folds out into 9 sections.

1901 issue of a French periodical concerned with the dyeing of textiles. The content is divided into four parts: a reflection on universal exhibitions, in particular, the Universal Exhibition of Paris 1900; chemical…

A tabular overview of the field of substantive cotton dyes. Substantive dyes, also referred to as direct dyes, become chemically fixed to textile fibers without the aid of a mordant. Contains dyed and mounted cotton…

Sample book of dyed materials from Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co., the first incarnation of the modern pharmaceutical company, Bayer AG, established to manufacture and sell synthetic dyestuffs. The book…

Sample book from the Bayer Company, Inc. — the North American extension of the German company, Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co.—containing mounted dyed yarn and cotton thread samples. Bayer & Co. was the first…

Sample book containing 495 cotton samples dyed with Friedrich Bayer & Co. brand benzidine-based dyes. Benzidine is a synthesized substance that was commonly used in the preparation of direct dyes, or dyes which do not…

This sample book begins with a selection of recipes for the preparation of dye vats. Each recipe lists the solvents and solutes necessary to mix large-volume solutions of indigo textile dye using Indigo M.L.B. brand…

Work intended to “standardize colors for the Textile and allied industries so that the standard name or standard number will always signify the color so designated in this card.” This work and its subsequent editions…

Volume describes the properties, varieties, and application process of calcimine wall color treatment. The work includes color plates showing color relationships, Calcimo brand wall colors for sale from the Muralo…

Work intended to convey to the average person the laws and principles of color to improve their appreciation, understanding, and employment of color in daily life. Includes nine pages of color samples that collectively…

A second revised edition of a text on color science. According to the author in his preface, this work deals “in a practical manner with the science of mixing ordinary colours and dyes… thus made applicable to the…

Sample book containing a description of dye application methods, a table for conversion of dyestuff percentages to avoirdupois, and 238 mounted fabric swatches dyed with National Aniline & Chemical Company manufactured…

A 1904 supplement to the 1902 catalog, The Dyeing of Cotton, addressing dyestuffs related to cotton dying, especially Diamine and Immedial colors, that developed or improved in the two years after the primary work’s…

Digitized content includes a page from the November 1906 issue of the Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists and a foldout of an interleaved reflectance spectroscopy chart. The journal article excerpt includes…

Sample book for dyeing solutions on wood from Farbenfabriken vorm. Friedrich Bayer & Co.—the first incarnation of the modern pharmaceutical company Bayer AG established to manufacture and sell synthetic dyestuffs.…

Sample book for dyeing solutions on wood from the Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Contains dyeing instructions and sixty-four mounted wood…

Sample book with printing instructions and 244 dyed and printed wool fabric samples.

Sample book for sulfur dyes on cotton yarn. Contains dyeing instructions and mounted thread samples on folded cards.