A great part of his treatise on the art of dyeing silk, published in the collection of the Academy of Sciences, has these principles for its object.
He gave processes also fordyeing silk with Prussian blue, and for giving to silk, by means of cochineal, as brilliant a scarlet colour as can be given to woollen cloth by the same dye-stuff.
Dyeing the teeth black is considered a great embellishment among many races of Asia and Oceanica; this operation is sometimes preceded by another, viz.
Tapestry-making was also resumed in Oudenarde and Brussels, copper-working in Malines, dyeing in Antwerp and linen-weaving in the Flemish country districts.
The Low Countries were especially suited to this branch of industry, owing to the perfection of dyeing methods and to the great number of painters and draughtsmen able to provide the workers with beautiful designs.
By dyeing the materials, regular colored patterns were produced, each tribe having had, it is said, a peculiar pattern by which its matting could be distinguished.
The materials they have for dyeing are so good that the colors never fade.
The favorite blue color for dyeing is obtained from the jiquilite plant; the yellow from the achiolt tree.
Coriaria myrtifolia; the leaves of which are astringent, and used indyeing black, and the berries are poisonous.
Though it is considered a tree, the stem is seldom thicker than the arm of a man, and it is generally crooked; chips of the wood are used for dyeing purple.
The berries of the plants in this division are sold for dyeing yellow, under the name of French or Avignon berries.
In the expense account we include all charges except raw silk, throwing, dyeing and piece work.
To find out whether the silk has been weighted in the dyeing process, we may compare it with other silk of which the exact conditions are known, or we may burn a small quantity of it.
The calculator must always take into consideration that poor raw silk or poor dyeing make production slow, increase the cost of labor, and also that more waste will be made.
In the dyeing we distinguish two great classes, of which the names themselves give a good definition.
This fashion of hair-dyeing is also common to the Feegees, and whether they obtained it from the Tongans, or the Tongans from them, is an unsettled point.
The dyeing of straw is almost invariably done at the boil.
Deuxbouts, of Paris, was dyeing chip plaits in this manner, which is that used for feathers, and in 1878 at the Exposition Universelle, her exhibit in this direction was superior to that shown by any other house.
All the plaits mentioned, with very few exceptions, such as the cellulose, visca, cotton or black horsehair varieties, require bleaching or dyeing before being ready for sewing.
The main considerations of dyeing are brilliance of shade with perfect evenness of colour, and penetration of the dye right through the straw.
It is now used for dyeing crinoline and those silk plaits which would be spoiled by heated baths.
The dyeing matter, with any necessary addition, is put into the vat or copper and well mixed with the requisite amount of water.
At one time a new dyeing effect on straws was introduced, which consisted of standing the bundles upright and allowing strong dye to run through the “pipes.
To use for working, where dyeingwas required, the flat was “stripped” by taking the outside end and gently pulling the flat, the centre of which was pivoted round and round until the whole was undone.
The dyeing of straw plait in England, done individually for some time on a small scale, commenced as a separate industry about 1845, when a Mr. Randall opened some dyeing works at Sundon, a village about four miles from Luton.
All these hoods are utilized for making men’s or ladies’ hats, and except in a few cases they are imported in the natural colour, requiring bleaching or dyeing before entering the actual hat making process.
The dyeing of straws follows in the main the dyeing of plait, but the preparation is somewhat different.
Each lot of plait for dyeing carries a numbered wooden “tally,” the number corresponding with the dye ticket left in the office or “giving out” room.
For dyeing threads of different colours, Devalan dipped them in the blood.
The leaves of this plant are widely used by Natives as an article of toilet for staining the nails, and by Muhammadans for dyeing the hair red.
There were odd things sworne against them, as the strange manner of the dyeing of H.
The Art of Cloathing and Dyeing is already donn by Sir William Petty, and is printed in the History of the Royall Society, writt by Dr.
In the Sierra, indigo is a very considerable article of traffic: the Indians use a great quantity of it for dyeing their clothes; blue being their favorite color.
In the loftier districts of the Montañas the Peruvian bark is found: the lower and more marshy places produce the sarsaparilla, and a sort of wood fordyeing called Llangua.
Salts of tin in varying degrees are used in the dyeing of most silks, and the result is that the material becomes crisp and harsh so that it cracks when folded, and does not wear long.
Krefeld alone has one hundred and twenty velvet factories, besides many others devoted to dyeing the silk from which the velvet is made.
Here in New Jersey, for example, we have throwing and spinning mills, large dyeing establishments, and we weave the finest of ribbons as well as broad goods.
You see, in dyeingsilk the material shrinks and loses about a quarter of its weight.
We have throwing mills; a place where we dye silk in the skein; a winding and weaving plant; another plant for dyeinggoods in the piece; and a big printing and finishing plant.
The practice of dyeing the hair or otherwise altering its color is of ancient date.
The garments made of these materials were probably dyed in rich colors, as the principles of dyeing were well understood.
The same condemnation was visited upon the practice of the men of dyeing their hair or otherwise coloring it, wearing flowing locks, and painting their faces.
The crimsons in Gothic tapestries must have been got by dyeing kermes over pale shades of blue, since the crimson red-dye, cochineal, had not yet come to Europe.
It is not of much use in dyeing silk, which it is apt to "blind"; i.
Green is obtained by dyeing a blue of the required shade in the indigo-vat, and then greening it with a good yellow dye, adding what else may be necessary (as, e.
The principal profits of the dyer, when unconnected with manufacturing establishments, arise from dyeing garments or stuffs which have been partly worn.
The art of dyeing consists in impregnating flexible fibres with any color which may be desired, in such a manner, that it will remain permanent, under the common exposures to which it may be liable.
The materials used in dyeing are divided into two classes--substantive and adjective.
Dyeing substances are also very numerous; but a few of the most important have, in practice, taken precedence of the others.
The origin of the art of dyeing is involved in great obscurity, as the ancients have not furnished even a fable, which might guide us in our researches.
The first book on the art of dyeing was published in 1429.
Under the name of "phosphine" this colouring-matter is still used, especially for the dyeing of leather.
The latter, as previously stated, possess the most valuable property of dyeing cotton fibre directly, and by their means the art of cotton dyeing has been greatly simplified.
A sulpho-acid of alizarin has been introduced for wool dyeing under the name of alizarin carmine, and a nitro-alizarin under the name of alizarin orange.
It is among the secondary azo-dyes that we meet with the first direct dyeing blacks, the importance of which will be realized when it is remembered that the ordinary aniline-black is not adapted for wool dyeing.
The latter on heating with glycerin and sulphuric acid is transformed into a remarkably fast colouring-matter known as alizarin blue, which is used for dyeing and printing.
The chlorides of tin, as well as the alkali stannates, are much used as mordants in dyeing processes.
A number of the salts of chromium are also used in the dyeing industry, for they hydrolyze like aluminium salts and the hydroxide forms a good mordant.
It is mentioned as being used for dyeing leather in Riley's Memorials of London, p.
The advantage is not only greater permanency of colour but also greater certainty in the result; for one can watch the process of dyeing more easily and guard against the colours becoming too dark.
A fine permanent green is obtained by dyeing thread or cloth a good yellow and topping with a blue bath.
Beautiful background tones can be obtained by dyeing the two latter with easy dyes.
Good results in dyeing are obtained by using the prepared dyes of the markets, mixing together more than one colour often, after some experimenting, in order to produce the desired shade.
The Turkish women are very particular in dyeing their hair, and use various preparations.
This plant is called shenna by all Turks and Cypriotes, and it is imported from Syria for the purpose of dyeing the hair, and also the feet and hands of Turkish women.
Something has been said in the accompanying text regarding the yellowish cast given to Chinese reds, and the manner in which the peach and apricot shades are produced by dyeing loose red over fast yellow.
The bark of the sassafras was used for dyeingyellow or orange color, and the flowers and leaves of the balsam also.
Soda has the same effect as potash, except that it is a little less strong; both substances have always been much employed in dyeing skins.
All the dyes which have been just enumerated, which form, however, but a very small proportion of those in existence, are employed in dyeing textiles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dyeing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coloration; coloring; illumination; lithography; staining
