Smith's Practical dyer's guide : containing five hundred dyed patterns, to each of which a genuine receipt is given : the work comprises practical instructions in the dyeing of silk, cotton, and wool, in a raw and manufactured state, also instructions for dyeing plain and mixed fabrics ... also receipts for making all the dye spirits with which to dye every colour in the work
Smith's Practical Dyer's Guide, a trade manual by David Smith, pattern dyer, published in London by Simpkin, Marshall & Co. in 1880 for working dyers handling silk, cotton and wool. Its pages are vertical strips of dyed fabric swatches, each glued in a ruled column beside a numbered page.
