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THE DYEING OF COTTON FABRICS: A Practical 



Handbook for the Dyer and Student. By Franklin Beech, Practical 

 Colourist and Chemist. 272 pp. Forty-four Illustrations of Bleaching 

 and Dyeing Machinery. DemySvo. Price 7s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 

 8s. ; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. ; strictly net. 



Contents. 



Structure and Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre— Scouring and Bleaching of Cotton— Dyeing 

 Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations — Principles and Practice of Cotton Dyeing — Direct 

 Dyeing; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Metallic Salts: Direct Dyeing followed by 

 Fixation with Developers ; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Couplers ; Dyeing on 

 Tannic Mordant; Dyeing on Metallic Mordant; Production of Colour Direct upon Cotton 

 Fibres ; Dyeing Cotton by Impregnation with Dye-stuff Solution — Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton 

 and Wool) Fabrics— Dyeing Half Silk (Cotton-Silk, Satin) Fabrics— Operations following 

 Dyeing — Washing, Soaping, Drying— Testing of the Colour of Dyed Fabrics— Experimental 

 Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing — Index. 



The book contains numerous recipes for the production on Cotton Fabrics of all kinds of a 

 great range of colours, 



THE DYEING OP WOOLLEN FABRICS. By Franklin 



Beech, Practical Colourist and Chemist. Thirty-three Illustrations. 

 Demy 8vo. 228 pp. Price 7s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 8s. ; Other 

 Countries, 8s. 6d, net. 



Contents. 



The Wool Fibre — Structure, Composition and Properties — Processes Preparatory to Dyeing 

 — Scouring and Bleaching of Wool — Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations — Loose 

 Wool Dyeing, Yarn Dyeing and Piece Dyeing Machinery — The Principles and Practice of 

 Wool Dyeing — Properties of Wool Dyeing— Methods of Wool Dyeing— Groups of Dyes- 

 Dyeing with the Direct Dyes — Dyeing with Basic Dyes — Dyeing with Acid Dyes — Dyeing 

 with Mordant Dyes — Level Dyeing— Blacks on Wool — Reds on Wool — Mordanting of Wool — 

 Orange Shades on Wool — Yellow Shades on Wool — Green Shades on Wool — Blue Shades on 

 Wool — Violet Shades on Wool — Brown Shades on Wool — Mode Colours on Wool — Dyeing 

 Union (Mixed Cotton Wool) Fabrics— Dyeing of Gloria— Operations following Dyeing- 

 Washing, Soaping, Drying — Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing — Testing of 

 the Colour of Dyed Fabrics — Index. 



Bleaching and Washing. 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE BLEACHING OF 

 LINEN AND COTTON YARN AND FABRICS. By 



L. Tailfer, Chemical and Mechanical Engineer. Translated from the 

 French by John Geddes McIntosh. Demy 8vo. 303 pp. Twenty 

 lUusts. Price 12s. 6d. ; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d. ; Other Countries, 

 15s. ; strictly net. 



Contents. 



General Considerations on Bleaching— Steeping— Washing: Its End and Importance- 

 Roller Washing Machines— Wash Wheel (Dash Wheel)- Stocks or Wash Mill— Squeezing— 

 Lye Boiling— Lye Boiling with Milk of Lime— Lye Boiling with Soda Lyes— Description ot 

 Lye Boiling Keirs- Operations of Lye Boiling -Concentration of Lyes— Mather and Piatt s 

 Keir- Description of the Keir— Saturation of the Fabrics— Alkali used in Lye Boiling- 

 Examples of Processes— Sogp— Action of Soap in Bleaching— Quality and Quantity ot Sjoaps 

 to use in the Lye— Soap Lyes or Scalds— Soap Scouring Stocks— Bleaching on Grass or on 

 the Bleaching Green or Lawn— Chemicking— Remarks on Chlorides and their Decolour- 

 ising Action— Chemicking Cisterns— Chemicking— Strengths, etc.— Sours— Properties of the 

 Acids— Effects Produced by Acids— Souring Cisterns— Drying— Drying by Steam— Drying 

 bv Hot Air- Drying by Air— Damages to Fabrics in Bleaching— Yarn Mildew—Fermentation 

 —Iron Rust Spots— Spots from Contact with Wood— Spots incurred on the Bleaching Green 

 —Damages arising from the Machines— Examples of Methods used in Bleaching— Linen— 

 Cotton-The Valuation of Caustic and Carbonated Alkali (Soda) and General Information 

 Regarding these Bodies— Object of Alkalimetry— Titration of Carbonate of Soda— Com- 

 parative Table of Different Degrees of Alkalimetrical Strength-Five Problems relative to 

 Carbonate of Soda-Caustic Soda, its Properties and Uses-Mixtures of Carbonated and 

 Caustic Alkali— Note on a Process of Manufacturing Caustic Soda and Mixtures of Caustic 



