The practical dry cleaner, scourer, and garment dyer: comprising dry, chemical, or French cleaning; purification of benzine; removal of stains, or spotting; wet cleaning; finishing cleaned fabrics; cleaning and dyeing furs, skin rugs and mats; cleaning and dyeing feathers; cleaning and renovating felt, straw and panama hats; bleaching and dyeing straw and straw hats; cleaning and dyeing gloves; garment dyeing; stripping; analysis of textile fabrics
A 1911 Philadelphia trade manual by William T. Brannt, published by H. C. Baird & Co., covering dry cleaning, spot removal, dyeing furs, feathers, hats and gloves for professional cleaners and dyers. Its pictures are plain line engravings of apparatus: a stacked tank-and-funnel still with a round cross-section view, a cylindrical perforated drum, a tapered perforated nozzle fitted with a valve, and a cistern apparatus on a stand. A designer could take their hard-edged dot-and-hatch shading and clean diagrammatic line for technical or industrial motifs.
