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Paper, dye recipes by Mr Fletcher

Reference number: CLP/3i/38

Date: 13 September 1639

Description

Fletcher provides instructions on how to make dyes and how to dye silks. Includes a recipe for scarlet from saffron and annatto, purple from cochineal and oyster shells, tawne, orange, and scarlet silk dyed with cochineal.

Subject: Industry

Reference number
CLP/3i/38
Earliest possible date
13 September 1639
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, dye recipes by Mr Fletcher, 13 September 1639, CLP/3i/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_38/paper-dye-recipes-by-mr-fletcher, accessed on 16 September 2024

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