MADDER STYLES.

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Madder Style. (First Stage.)

These serve to illustrate the successive stages of madder-work. In the first,the mordants, or, as they are technically called “ colours,”—suitable forsubsequently producing, in combination with the tinctorial principles of the dye-ware, black, purple, red, and light brown designs upon a white ground,—havebeen printed on, and the pieces have been cleared and dunged (see p. 297, &c.),in order to remove the thickeners and saturate any mordant attached to thefibre and not yet perfectly decomposed. After this process the goods areready to be dyed up in the madder-beck (see p. 299). The pattern belowshows their condition after dyeing and a subsequent washing, but before thefinal clearing process. The shades are developed, but they are still deficientin brightness, and the ground, which is intended to be.-white, is stained a dulllight red. The third, and last of the series (see next page), shows the appearanceof the pieces after having undergone the clearing process. The general

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Madder Style. (After Dyeing.)

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