Dyeing : comprising the dyeing and bleaching of wool, silk, cotton, flax, hemp, china grass, &c.
A technical manual on dyeing and bleaching of textile fibres, published in Manchester and London in 1888 by Antonio Sansone for dyers and textile manufacturers. Its plates show industrial machines drawn in fine engraved line: a yarn finishing machine on iron stands, a rotated multi-roller machine with handwheels, a hydro-extractor with a drum and belt drive, and a long Cordons dyeing vat with pipework. A designer could draw on the dense hatching and cross-hatched shadows that model cast iron and steel.
