Dye Collection (page 2)

Wax, glue, gum and dye with comic verse on a greetings card. Date: circa 1890s

Trade catalogue of mens shaving equipment 1911
Trade catalogue for Harrords department store, showing a page selection of shaving equipment. 1911

Welchs Table-Cloth Printing Works, showing embossing presses, dye wheel, beck, and printing by hand. 1852

Advert for Ch. Lalanne hair dye 1910
Hair dye which recolours gray or white hair, changes brown to blonde or vice versa, available in two sized bottles in one single application. 1910

Advert for Brodies Imperial Hair Dyes 1898
Permanent harmless hair dyes in a range of colours, black, dark brown, light brown, golden, brown or auburn and pure auburn. 1898

Advert for Imperial hair dyes 1896
Permanent and odourless hair dye in 6 colours; black, dark and light brown golden brown or auburn, pure golden and brodies hair grower and restorer. 1896

Ehan Althen, Persian
EHAN ALTHEN Persian cultivator of madder in France. (Madder is valued as a dye.) Date: 1711 - 1774

Advert for Ch. Lalanne hair dye 1912
Oh, what a shock for the man in your life, when your first grey hair appears! Ah, but thanks to Lalannes wonderful colorant, he need never know the awful truth.. 1912

How Betty can make a Christmas hankie for mother, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

Designs in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes
Designs in a brochure showing how to decorate household items with Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

Tinting, Dyeing and Practical Art Craft with Dy-o-la Dyes, page of a brochure by the Dy-o-la Dye Co of Burlington, Vermont, USA, price 15 cents. Date: 1920s

Dainty frock of opal hues, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

Simple designs for batik, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

How to make braided rugs, with material dyed in different colours, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

Jolly play clothes from daddys shirts, baby creeper and sisters apron, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

A smart note is added to the sports blouse, page of instructions in a brochure, Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

A rainbow frock
How to create a rainbow frock using Dy-o-la Dyes, page of instructions in a brochure. Date: 1920s

Home refurbished by Dy-o-la Dyes
Page from a brochure, a home entirely refurbished by Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1920s

A chic little turban made from an old scarf
Page of instructions in a brochure showing how to dye an old scarf with Dy-o-la Dyes and turn it into a turban -- the craft of Art Dyeing. Also how to make a dolly bag out of an old scarf. Date: 1920s

Simple designs with many uses
Page of instructions in a brochure showing how to dye different designs with Dy-o-la Dyes -- the craft of Art Dyeing. Date: 1920s

Tinting everything to match with Dy-o-la Dyes
Tinting Everything to Match with Dy-o-la Dyes - a housewife dyeing clothes in her bathroom sink from a Brochure: Tinting, Dyeing and Practical Art Craft with Dy-o-la Dyes. Date: 1926

Delightful shaded scarfs of lovely tints
Page of instructions in a brochure showing how to dye scarves with Dy-o-la Dyes -- the craft of Art Dyeing. Date: 1920s

How Dy-o-la can bring beauty to your home
Page in a brochure introducing the craft of Art Dyeing. Date: 1920s

Rag Dy-o-la Dye Dolly
How to get a regular size rag Dy-o-la Dye Dolly. A happy little girl holds her doll. Date: circa 1920s

A stylised 1920s Woman holding a cornucopia of dye packets
A stylised 1920s Woman holding a cornucopia of packets of Dy-o-la Dye - an attractive illustration from a Brochure " Tinting, Dyeing and Practical Art Craft with Dy-o-la Dyes". Date: 1926

Sixth Street East, St Paul, Minnesota, USA
Sixth Street East (viewed from Cedar Street), St Paul, Minnesota, USA. Date: circa 1905

Campbell Dye Works advertisement, WW1
Advertisement for P & P Campbell Limited, Dye Works of Perth, whose dyes in wartime allowed people to practice wartime economy by dry-cleaning or dyeing existing clothes or soft furnishings instead

By-products developed from coal by G. H. Davis
The enormous importance of coal as the basic element in vital war manufactures. A diagrammatic drawing showing a great variety of by-products developed from coal. Date: 1944

Russian Dyer with his vat and belt pouches Date: 1905

Agate

Ficus tinctoria, dye fig
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Dactyloprus coccus, scale insect
The colouring agent cochineal is derived from this insect which lives on the prickly pear cactus and is native to Mexico. Insects measure 3-4mm in length

Agate dyed

Agate
Dyed agate

Rasphouse Entrance, Heilige Weg, Amsterdam
Entrance gate to the Rasphouse on Heilige Weg, Amsterdam. The building was used as a workhouse or house of correction for male vagrants who rasped brazil wood into a powder used to create a textile

Bleaching Ground at Monteiths Dye Works, Glasgow
The bleaching ground at Monteiths Dye Works, Glasgow. Long lengths of cloth are being laid out on the ground. Date: 1843

Gentlemen prefer blondes
A group of brunette girls queuing outside the hairdressers, to get their hair dyed blonde because they are not getting the attention from the boys that they would like. 1926

Sfax - Tunisia - The Street of the Dyers
The Street of the Dyers at Sfax, Tunisia

Adding Dye to a printing machine
A factory worker adds red dye to a large piece of printing machinery. Photograph by Heinz Zinram. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Izmir, Turkey - Thread tanning works
A wool-dyeing factory for the carpet trade at Izmir (Smyrna), Turkey. The company boss is pictures with a couple of his foreign clients

Dye / Aniline Blue
The manufacture of aniline blue dye

Dyeing Cottons
Dyeing cotton fabrics in Dye- becks

Dye / Aniline Red
The manufacture of aniline red dye

Dye / Methyaniline Violet
The manufacture of methyaniline violet dye

Glasgow Bleaching Ground
Women working outside in the bleaching ground of the Barrowfield (Montheith s) dye- works, Glasgow

Maypole Dyes
Rub-a dub-dub, three maids at a tub filled with dye made from MAYPOLE SOAP, they ve dipped all their clothes as everyone knows, green, yellow and pale heliotrope

Macaw / Dye Adveret 1926
The brightly coloured Macaw Parrot seems the perfect choice for this campaign to sell Solprufe fadless coloured dye

Maypole Dye Ca 1900
Three little girls use MAYPOLE SOAP to dye their clothes - Dyes any color [sic] - does not soil the hands

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