18th Century Dyes and Dyeing
Additional Resources
Mood Indigo, the Old Sig Vat; or, Experiments in Blue-Dyeing the 18th Century Way
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing at Colonial Williamsburg; also, an interview with Williamsburg weaver Max Hamrick
Dye manuals printed in America before 1870 and books printed in America before 1870 which include a section of dye recipes in Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing
Eighteenth-Century Theories on the Process of Dyeing (Isis, March 1960)
Dyers at work
- Frontispiece to Le Tenturier Parfait, 1708
- Dyers by Christoph Weigel, 1711; also here
- A valentine with a dyer
- Teinturier en soie ou teinturier de riviére in Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1772
- Dyers, an 18th century German etching
Eighteenth century dye recipes
- Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested (1735)
- Commercium Philosophico-Technicum; or, the Philosophical Commerce of Arts: designed as an attempt to improve Arts, Trades, and Manufactures by William Lewis (1763)
- Memoirs of Agriculture and other Oeconomical Arts by Robert Dossie (1768)
- Expériences Physiques et Chymiques, sur Plusieurs Matieres relatives au Commerce & aux Arts (1769); a French translation of the Commercium Philosophico-Technicum above
- The Art of Tanning and of Currying Leather, With the Processes for Dying Leather Red and Yellow, As practiced in Turkey(1773)
- Essai sur l’art de la Teinture by Henrik Teofilus Scheffer (1787); also here
- Elements of Natural History and Chemistry by Antoine François de Fouroroy (1790)
- Elements of the Art of Dyeing by M. Berthollet (1791); also here
- Account of Russian Dyes (1792)
- Encyclopædia Britannica: Dyeing (1797)
- The Country Dyer’s Assistant by Asa Ellis, Jun. (1798)
- The Laboratory; or, School of Arts (1799)
- The Dyer’s Assistant in the art of dying wool and woollen goods by James Haigh (1800)
