Book1806
The Dyer's Companion
Elijah Bemiss
Compiles practical dye recipes from vegetable, animal and mineral sources for the working dyer, treating dyeing as reproducible chemistry rather than an inherited trade secret.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Craft, Trades & Making · Textile & Fibre Crafts
Dyeing
A topic within Textile & Fibre Crafts, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
Reading on Dyeing
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Book1916
A Book on Vegetable Dyes
Ethel M. Mairet
Argues that natural dyeing was being lost to cheaper synthetic dyes for reasons of cost rather than quality, and sets out working recipes to keep the older methods usable.
about 2 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026FreeIntermediate