Here are the carpenters using their bare feet in their work almost as deftly as their fingers; and yonder the dyers festooning their long strips of blue cotton from their windows and balconies.
This part of the lecture was important to dyers and printers, the lecturer showing also, in a very interesting way, in what manner manufacturers may very considerably economize their consumption of coal.
Timber dealers cast trunks of trees right across the street, dyerspoured their waste waters over it till it became a mere swamp, builders blocked it up utterly with the framework of their new houses, and traders made their wharves upon it.
In Newcastle the guild of fullers and dyers in their ordinances of 1477 regulated the price of fulling and shearing the various kinds of cloth by piece-work at so much a yard.
The complaint against the dyers is shown in a petition to Parliament in 1415 (Rot.
Coventry say that by reason of a confederacy among the dyersthey cannot get their cloth dyed under 6s.
The dyers in Coventry were often cloth merchants of great consequence.
The dyers are also great and common makers of cloth and take all the flower of the wool for their own cloth, the remnant serving the common people.
All stuffs coming from foreign countries must be worn as they are, the government absolutely prohibiting the dyers from at all exercising their industry upon them.
The dyers make theirs from the dark crust that gradually accumulates on brass-kettles.
Persian dyers have chosen Christ as their patron; and Bischoff says that they at present call a dye-house Christ's workshop, from a tradition they have that He was of that profession.
These are a few of the principal coloring matters used by dyers in ancient times.
It was annoying to the Dyers to have to answer questions, and to be called upon to grieve outwardly just then, and it seemed disloyal to the dead woman in the next room to enter upon any discussion of her affairs.
The burying-place was shut in by a plain stone wall, which she had long ago asked the Dyers to build for her, and she leaned over it now and looked at the smooth turf of the low graves.
He had always seen her from time to time, for he had often been called to the farm or to the Dyersand had watched her at play.
Artificial indigo is made pure and of any desired strength, so thedyers can depend on it.
I haven't that amount of money with me at the moment, but the dyers would be glad to put it up for the discovery of a satisfactory natural source for their tinctorial materials.
The question of penetration of the straw is one that has keenly exercised the minds of straw dyers from the inception of the industry.
The only Lichen dyes that are known generally amongdyers are Orchil and Cudbear, and these are preparations of lichens, not the lichens themselves.
It is called by old dyers one of the Lesser Dyes, because the colour was said to lose all its brightness when exposed to the air.
They seem to have been used among peasant dyers from remote ages, but apparently none of the great French dyers used them, nor are they mentioned in any of the old books on dyeing.
It is considered by mostdyers to be the first of the red dyes, being more permanent than cochineal and brighter than madder.
This method is not arbitrary as some dyers consider a better green is got by dyeing it yellow before the blue.
Some old dyers use Brazil wood to heighten the red of madder.
Other dyers use it in the following way: A layer of crottle, a layer of wool, and so on until the bath is full; fill with cold water and bring to the boil, and boil till the colour is deep enough.
This material is especially best for "saddening," as the old dyers used to call it.
They took the white lining out of the coat, and carried it to the Dyers to be dyed black.
The former is the cheaper of the two and quite satisfactory, although many dyers seem to prefer the aniline process.
The paste may be used where it is desirable to increase the substance of the leather, but most dyers prefer the crystals, which are easily dissolved in hot water.
Many processes differing somewhat in detail have been devised for dyeing Turkey red on cotton, and it is probable that no two Turkey-red dyers work exactly alike.
Some dyers use a continuous machine for these operations, such as shown in Fig.
Formerly the idea was prevalent among cotton dyers that the process which succeeds with piece goods would not answer with yarns.
Some dyers use a special form of dye vat for dyeing paranitroaniline red on yarn, whose construction can be seen from Fig.
We are often asked to recommend books on different subjects, and have no hesitation in advising the purchase of the present volume by dyers and calico printers, as containing a mass of most useful information at a nominal price.
This method is largely taken advantage of by calico printers for grounds, and dyers might make use of it to a much larger extent than they do.
While the developing bath used for piece goods may be the same as that used for yarns, some dyers prefer to use one made somewhat differently, thus 6-1/4 lb.
Some dyers use ice in preparing their diazo solutions, and certainly the best results are attained thereby, but with paranitroaniline the ice can be dispensed with.
Some dyers in working a copper-logwood black make the dye-bath from 100 gallons logwood liquor at 2° Tw.
Some indigo dyers have quite a range of vats, using those fresh made for dyeing deep shades, while the old vats being nearly exhausted are used only for light shades and finally when completely exhausted are thrown away.
It is frequently desirable that dyers should be able to ascertain with some degree of accuracy what dyes have been used to dye any particular samples of dyed cloth that has been offered to them to match.
In this manner dyers sometimes obtained colours which pleased by their novelty and beauty; but it needs excite no surprise that many new methods of dyeing did not produce the desired effect.
The distinction therefore between indigo-dyers and those who dyed with woad must be very old.
The statutes absolutely prohibited the Calimala from dying anything save foreign stuffs, and the Woollen Guild had dyers of its own, forming, as it were, a subordinate association.
These dyers were bound to deposit three hundred florins with the guild as a warranty, and fines were deducted from this sum whenever the goods delivered were soiled or dyed a bad colour.
From the shepherds the professional dyers obtain the wool, which, after colouring, they sell to weavers; and these in turn often receive their patterns from others.
Here and there dyers and weavers cling to early traditions, so that among modern rugs are many examples of good colouring; but the most recent pieces, excepting when softened by artificial processes, often display harsh and garish colours.
They do say the Dyers ha' never given away anything avore 'cept the water what they boiled their cabbage in.
Then to learn of the dyers to discern all kinds of colours, as which be good and sure, and which will not hold; which be fair, and which not.
As most dyers know, the most brilliant effects are obtained when the finished woven piece can be dyed.
It is frequently desirable that dyers should be able to ascertain with some degree of accuracy what dyes have been used to dye any particular sample of dyed cloth that has been offered to them to match.
Many dyersuse the dye-wood extracts which are now made on a large scale.
Dyers will find much assistance in acquiring a knowledge of colour and colour mixing from the two little books on Colour, by Mr. George H.
No two woad vat dyers use exactly the same recipe in setting a woad vat, and each considers he has a secret art by means of which he ensures the successful working of this vat, and this he jealously guards.
The coal-tar colour makers have placed at the service of dyers a great variety of mordant dyes, which may be classified somewhat roughly into groups, according to their chemical composition.
A large number of recipes are in use bydyers for the production of greys, so many that it becomes almost an impossibility to do more than give a mere fraction of them here.
Lodge, in the Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, 1892 (p.
In Singer's process, which was described in detail by Mr. Watson Smith some time ago before the Society of Dyers and Colourists, carbon bisulphide is used.
The laws affecting the dyers of silk contain the following provisions.
On the authority of the same writer, the makers and the dyers of silk-stuffs inhabited another quarter of the town.
At the time of my visit to Valencia, there were a hundred and seventeen master-dyers in that city, but not all of them were working.
There are no resident Jews among them, but a certain number of Jewish handicraftsmen and dyers come among them for the sake of trade, and then return, the people being favourable to the Jews.
It contains a dyeing-house, for which the Jews pay a small rent annually to the king[77], on condition that besides the Jews no other dyersbe allowed in Jerusalem.
Occasionally, dyers get some of the chemicals they use into sores on their hands and feet, which may injure them some, but not seriously.
In large manufacturing cities, dyers usually confine themselves to one kind of goods, as wool or silk, and some to certain colors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dyers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
