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A Description and History of Vegetable Substances Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy (Volume 3)

A Description and History of Vegetable Substances Used in the Arts, and in Domestic Economy (Volume 3)


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833. Excerpt: ... Chapter XVIII. VEGETABLE DYEING SUBSTANCES USED IN THE ARTS. DYEING SUBSTANCES INDIGO WOAD. There are many subtances which afford a durable colour, and which may therefore be applied successfully by the simplest people to the purposes of dyeing, without being subjected to any previous preparation. This application can scarcely be called an art. But to make permanent that which is evanescent in its nature, and not only to arrest the fugitive tints, but to give to them greater brilliancy, and by curious combinations to impart every varying hue, this may more properly be termed the art of dyeing. It would be of little avail to search out passages, many of them obscure and contradictory, from various ancient sources, to assist our conjectures as to the origin of the art of dyeing, and with what success it was practised by the nations of antiquity. It may be sufficient to mention, that the practical methods of communicating various colours to stuffs was tolerably well understood at Rome; and we can trace some of the ingredients then used for this purpose, as retaining a conspicuous and useful place in the dye-houses of the present day. We learn from the Italian chronicles that as early as the year 776, when Charlemagne, who had recently obtained possession of all upper Italy by conquering the Lombards, was at Pavia, with all his court, a number of Venetian merchants flocked thither and sold the Franks an abundance of brilliant silk robes, embroidered stuffs, and prepared furs. Charlemagne's dress at the time was nothing but a rude sheep-skin. In the course of the ninth and tenth centuries, dyed silks, &c. imported by the Italians from the East, mainly for the decoration of churches, are repeatedly mentioned by the same old authors. At the time of the crusades ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235616792
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 118
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235616797
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 227 gr


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