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After-the-War economy : the story of a woman's adventures in the art of home-dyeing profitable home-dyeing with Drummer dyes

Wm. Edge & Sons Ltd · 1920 · Bolton : Wm. Edge & Sons · 11 pictures

A 1920 advertising booklet from Bolton dye manufacturer Wm. Edge & Sons, aimed at women dyeing clothes at home with Drummer dyes after the First World War. The pictures are simple black-and-white line drawings of fashionable women and a man in everyday domestic and social scenes, with a loose, sketchy finish a designer could borrow for vintage-style editorial or retro advertising work.

Clothing · Color · Household Products · Household Work · Gender expression

Internet Archive · Wellcome Library · Public domain (published before 1931) · More from this library