Author: Elijah Bemiss
Pages: 319
Cover: Softbound
Dimensions: 5 3/8" x 8 1/2"
Item #: BK213
Price: $13.95
In this complete reprinting of Bemiss's 1815 edition, the reader can find dye recipes for all shades and varieties for reds, blues, yellows, browns, and blacks for woolens, linens and cottons, for both hot and cold dye processes. The early sections give 119 recipes and nearly all the dyes a dyer could want to use. The second part, an appendix added in the 1815 edition, Bemiss gives information on setting up vats, on equipment and tools, on choosing certain dye materials and the methods that were chosen, on European methods, and much more. A final section gives recipes for inks, dyes for feathers, miracle cures, recipes for beer and mead and other curiosities of the dyers repertoire. This book is a must for anyone interested in the craftmen of the early years of the American republic.