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Banquet in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin : Delmonico's, October 6, 1906.

Textiles: tapestry dyeing, a furnace (top), fuel wood on a barrow or handcart (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Dinner in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin by his American friends to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of the dyestuff mauve on Saturday, the sixth of October one thousand, nine hundred and six at Delmonico's.

Dyeing: dyers' and fullers' mills for extracting plant dyes. Coloured engraving by J. Pass.

Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

Textiles: silk dyeing, washing cloth in a river (top), a spar used for winding silk thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Indian cloth painters. Gouache drawing.

Natural dyes : sources, tradition, technology and science / Dominique Cardon.

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Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.

Textiles: silk dyeing, washing cloth in a river (top), a spar used for winding silk thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.

Indian cloth painters. Gouache drawing.

Natural dyes : sources, tradition, technology and science / Dominique Cardon.

Banquet in honor of Sir William Henry Perkin : Delmonico's, October 6, 1906.