hand-heat

Updated: May 10, 2025

In dyeing light bottoms it is more expensive than logwood, even though the liquor be kept up, and, in my opinion, not so clear and black. Silk and wool dresses, poplins, and woolen dresses trimmed with silk, etc., for black. Before the dyeing operations, steep the goods in hand-heat soda water, rinse through two warm waters.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887