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.

The third edition of a sample book advertising woolen dye products from J. R. Geigy AG. Contains 289 dyed woolen samples. Information about each sample's light fastness, solubility, physical stability, and other…

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 paper samples colored with dyestuffs manufactured by the National Aniline & Chemical Company, Inc. The colors are categorized into three groups: acid colors, basic colors, and direct colors.…

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…

Sample book illustrating the application of National Chrome Dyes to woolen fabric by three methods, the "After-Chrome," "Chrome-Bottom," and "Ortho-Chrome" processes. Each process is described and 139 dyed woolen…

Charles F. Chandler (1836-1925) writes to the Henry H. Otters Manufacturing Company to discuss calculations concerning the proportion of arsenic in food dye.

Chandler was an American Chemist known for his work in…

A letter excerpt, likely by Charles F. Chandler (1836-1925) in which he posits that time spent extracting trace quantities of Arsenic from food coloring dyes is impractical as the proportion of Arsenic is too small to…

A representative from the Badische Company sends Charles F. Chandler (1836-1925) a sample of "Jelly Red" dye and a sample of candy colored with it. They have enclosed a copy of a letter from Coca-Cola bottlers and…

Notebook in which Charles F. Chandler (1836-1925) has pasted an assortment of government regulations and other items of interest related to food inspection and public health. Alongside these printed regulations are…

R. E. Doolittle, Chief of the New York Food and Drug Laboratory, of the USDA Bureau of Chemistry, discusses Charles F. Chandler (1836-1925) a method for the detection of Martius Yellow dye in coloring mixtures and gives…

Black and white photograph showing the interior of a dye laboratory of the General Dyestuff Corporation, likely in Providence, Rhode Island.

A small, cardboard, Tintex brand dye box printed with an illustration of a woman holding a garment over a sink. Contained a small paper packet, pictured on the right, that contains the powdered fabric dye. Dye…

A small, orange, Tintex brand dye box with an illustration of a pair of legs wearing stockings. A folded instruction sheet is included in the box.

Dyes are charged, water-soluble, organic compounds that chemically bind…

A small gray box with an illustration of a woman holding a garment over a dye bath. Contained a small paper packet, pictured on the right, that contains the powdered fabric dye. Dye instructions are printed on the…

Blue and white cardboard box with a small paper packet of powdered fabric dye. The dye is intended for use on white fabric to enhance the fabric's brightness and prevent yellowing.

Fabric dyes are charged,…

Print advertisement for RIT brand textile dye from Good Housekeeping magazine, May 1920. The advertisement features several color illustrations of women wearing garments colored with RIT dyes, as well as sketches of…

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…