The practical scourer and garment dyer: comprising dry or chemical cleansing, the art of removing stains, fine washing, bleaching and dyeing of straw hats, gloves and feathers of all kinds, dyeing of worn clothes of all fabrics, including mixed goods, by one dip, and the manufacture of soaps and fluids for cleansing purposes
A late nineteenth-century trade manual by William T. Brannt, published in Philadelphia in 1893 by H. C. Baird & Co., for dry cleaners, scourers and garment dyers. Its pictures are plain line engravings of apparatus: a round fitted vessel with a hinged lid and crank, a perforated cylinder, and a valved mechanism; a designer might take their dense hatching and clear mechanical diagrams as a model for industrial line work.
