Dyeing Collection

Cotton Dye Works
Empire Marketing Board 1927-1933 poster, Cotton Dye Works Date: 1927-1933

Dyeing Harris Tweed
Production of Harris Tweed. An old woman from the island dyes the wool in a cauldron- like vessel which sits on an open fire

Advert, Pullars Dye Works, Perth, Scotland. 1905

Advert, Surbiton and Kingston Laundry, Surrey
Advert, Surbiton and Kingston Laundry, Alfred Road, Spring Grove, Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey Date: 1897

Dyeing Wool and Yarn for Donegal Homespun, Inishowen
Dyeing Wool and Yarn forDonegal Homespun, Inishowen - a view of two men outside a thatched cottage sorting wool and yarn. (Location: Republic of Ireland: County Donegal: Inishowen)

Advert, Fairy Dyes for home dyeing Date: 1920s

Dyeing cloth in a woollen mill in Bradford, Yorkshire, late Victorian period

Japan - Dyeing Factory
Dyeing Factory, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Street scene with wallpaper shop and laundry
Street scene with pedestrians, wallpaper shop, laundry and bank. Date: circa 1930s

Trades in Regency England: flannel market, copper mines and shoe-maker. Man showing rolls of flannel cloth in Welchpool 46, miners digging for copper ore in Parys Mine, Anglesea 47

Advert, James Mellis & Co, Prestonpans, Scotland
Advert for James Mellis & Co, Soap Manufacturers, Prestonpans, Scotland. 1905

Chinese silk - dyeing and weaving
Chinese silk loom, is shown; the figure seated above among the machinery, appears to assist the labour by means of weight. Date: 1833

Bleaching cotton
Using wash-wheels for dyeing and bleaching cotton Date: 1830s

WOMAN PREPARES TO DYE
A woman prepares a dye mixture before adding it to a basin of water. Date: 1940s

INDIGO CULTIVATION 1871
A montage of engravings illustrating the cultivation of indigo. Date: 1871

DYEING CLOTH WITH INDIGO
Indigo in India. Lengths of cloth are dyed and dried in the sun. Date: 1878

Indigo Factory at Sultanganj, Bihar, India
Indigo (a natural dye extracted from plants) Factory at Sultanganj, a city and a notified area in Bhagalpur district in the Indian state of Bihar, situated on the south bank of Ganga river

London Trade Card - John Wildblood, Silk Dyer, at the Rainbow and Three Pigeons, St Clements Lane, Lombard Street (who married the widow Harrinton). 18th century

How Betty can make a Christmas hankie for mother, page of instructions in a brochure, 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

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

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

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

Midwife toad, Alytes obstetricans, tadpole, and dyeing dart frog, Dendrobates tinctorius.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

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

Russian Dyer with his vat and belt pouches Date: 1905

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

Tunis, Tunisia - Rue des Teinturiers (Dyers)

Dye / Aniline Blue
The manufacture of aniline blue dye

Dyeing with Maypole
Dyeing - with Maypole Soap

HAT DYEING
Except for a few eccentrics, Victorian gentlemen wear their hats any colour they like so long as its black : this is the dyeing process

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

Washing & Dyeing / 1582
Public washing and dyeing grounds

Silk Industry in China
Dyeing & winding silk

Advert / Maypole Soap / Dyes
Maypole Soap for home dyeing use

Belize / Davenport
Port of Belize (Balize) in what was British Hondurus. Troops watch as locals move about on rafts possibly made from the main export logwood used in the dyeing industry

Industry / Dyeing / Mrs Dip
Mrs Dip the Dyers Wife, from " Happy Families" devised in Britain by Mr Jacques in 1861

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