Every lady a practical dyer : simple receipts for family use : how to color silks, woollens, cottons, feathers, and all kinds of fancy articles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wells, Richardson & Co.

Miscellaneous Print Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dyes and dyeing, Domestic.

Home economics.

Genre:

Advertisements -- Dyes and dyeing.

Physical Description:

12 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 14 cm

Other Title:

Miscellaneous Print Collection. box 2 no 22 PU

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Vt. : Wells, Richardson & Co., [1876]

Notes:

Cover title.

"Presented by Will B. Dorman, druggist, cor. North and Main Sts., Georgetown, Mass."

Cover has woodcut of a woman standing at a table dying fabric in bowl.

"A comprehensive guide with directions for using Leamon's Aniline Dyes including to color leather, basket-work, ivory, hair and sheep-skin with long wool. General instructions are followed by directions for each color. Two pages of advertising for Wells, Richardson & Co patent medicines follow dying instructions. The back cover lists colors and the quantity of material to be dyed with a single portion of dye."--vendor's description.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from Eclectibles.

OCLC:

1046981488