A guide to the creation of different silk fabrics, this manuscript is unusual in including the original fabric swatches with detailed technical diagrams for their construction.
Description:
Imperfect: some pages mutilated with loss of text.
Subject (Topic):
Silk industry --France, Silk weaving --France --Early works to 1800, Textile industry --France, Weavers --France, and Workshop recipes --Early works to 1800
Manuscript volume containing dozens of detailed recipes for cloth dye, accompanied by small fabric swatches dyed in the intended colors. Some entries accompanied by slips containing cloth orders and batch results.
Description:
Bound in contemporary full white parchment., In English., Purchased from Ken Spelman on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2007., and Title from title page: William Butt's Dye Book, Nov. 24 1768.
Subject (Topic):
Dye industry--England--Early works to 1800, Dye industry--Great Britain--18th century, Dyers--Great Britain--18th century, Dyes and dyeing--Great Britain--18th century, Dyes and dyeing--Handbooks, manuals, etc, and Workshop recipes--Early works to 1800