Coloring base

Usage examples of dyestuff.

Explorers were so aware of dyestuffs as trade goods that the country Brazil was named after the abundance of brazilwood found there.

Next, the dyer needed to prepare the dyebath, either by boiling and straining plant matter or by grinding prepared dyestuffs.

In addition to water and fuel, the dyers needed copper vats for preparing dyebaths, wooden vats for dyeing the fabric, furnaces for heating the water and boiling the dyes, hooks, rods, barrows and winches to move the fabric around, tools for grinding the dyestuffs, the dyestuffs themselves, mordants, and a building large enough to use and store it all.

Film, with General Dyestuffs acting as its exclusive sales agent in the U.

American citizen, Halbach, became president of General Dyestuffs in 1930 and acquired majority control in 1939 from Dietrich A.

General Dyestuffs and took over the firm as an enemy corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

General Dyestuffs and this cozy government-business coterie on behalf of I.

Farben controlled the drug, chemical, and dyestuffs industries in Mexico.

The place stank of retting vats and dyestuffs, and one could not pass through the castle without sneez-i ng from dust and fluff and getting covered with lint and fuz2 and down.

I lingered at the trays of dyestuffs and ground spices, heaped in pyramids, colors I'd never seen, brilliances, worlds, until finally it was time to go.

Gangs of human captives, half-dead after almost a week of forced labour, now brought up the few remaining treasures to be gleaned from the buildings along the wharf: kegs of oil, alcohol, and dyestuffs, bales of rare leathers, loaf sugar, silken cordage and fabric, coffee beans in jute sacks, and cases of processed spices and precious strawberry jam.