The art of dyeing wool, silk, and cotton
A 1901 London reissue by Scott, Greenwood & Co. compiling three eighteenth-century French dyeing treatises by Jean Hellot, Pierre Joseph Macquer and Lepileur d'Apligny, translated into English for dyers and textile workers. The plates show workshop interiors, vats, kettles, barrels and hand tools drawn in fine black line, with numbered figures and scale bars in the captions. A designer could draw on their clean, diagrammatic labelling and the sturdy period forms of equipment for historical or craft-themed layouts.
