The Printing of Cotton Fabrics with the Dyestuffs of Leopold Cassella & Co G.m.b.h. Frankfort o.M.

Description:

Scarce trade publication detailing early 20th-century textile dyeing techniques using the products of Leopold Cassella & Co., a firm originally founded in 1798 by Leopold Cassella (1766-1847) for the import and sale of natural dyestuffs and coloured woods. The company later became a leading manufacturer of synthetic dyes. In 1904, it merged with Farbenwerke Hoechst, a key development on the path to becoming, by 1914, the world’s largest producer of synthetic dyes. A valuable document of industrial, chemical and fashion history.

Condition

8vo, half cloth, stamp of Brown & Forth, a chemical company in Manchester to endpapers. Includes 329 fabric swatches (complete). Vg.