mordanting

This method of indirect dyeing is known as the mordanting process; it consists of saturating the fabric to be dyed with chemicals which will unite with the coloring matter to form compounds unaffected by water.

General Science Bertha M. Clark

There was water close at hand—rainwater in cisterns under the courtyard, or the spring in the fountain house we used for drinking water, or the river itself—but for mordanting Nasthai insisted on the pure mountain water that flowed all the way from the Ferinus on a stone causeway.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

There was water close at hand—rainwater in cisterns under the courtyard, or the spring in the fountain house we used for drinking water, or the river itself—but for mordanting Nasthai insisted on the pure mountain water that flowed all the way from the Ferinus on a stone causeway.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

There was water close at hand—rainwater in cisterns under the courtyard, or the spring in the fountain house we used for drinking water, or the river itself—but for mordanting Nasthai insisted on the pure mountain water that flowed all the way from the Ferinus on a stone causeway.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

The technique, once discovered and improved, became a standard for bright scarlet, supplanting the more traditional alum-mordanting process and ultimately replacing Venetian scarlet as the most desirable red color.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Was Macquer suggesting that the first stage, the yellow dyeing, should be understood as a mordanting process with respect to the final color?

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Many precautions are required both in the mordanting and dyeing processes in order to obtain trustworthy results; and though the trials with bichromate of potash give the most reliable information of any single test, they should be supplemented by the subsidiary tests already alluded to, and also by a chemical examination, in order to obtain a knowledge, not merely of the wood strength, but also of the general nature of the extract.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various

With vegetable fibers, however, a fast dye is not assured without mordanting.

Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

A fine and cheap dark blue, for instance, is obtained by mordanting the wool as above stated and dyeing (20 kil.) in the second bath with 6 kil. alizarine WX and 2 kil. logwood chips; the wood is added to the bath together with the alizarine blue WX, and the best method is to put it into a bag which is hung in the bath.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various

After these come the dyeing operations proper, two in number, mordanting and dyeing.

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