Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on Dyeing and Calico-Printing Perhaps there is no department of industry to which these remarks apply with greater force than to the art of Dyeing, connected as it is on one side with the most subtle and pro found speculations in Natural Philosophy, on the other with the every-day practice of many useful arts. It is not and must not be regarded as an isolated pursuit, which can be carried to perfection by itself. Its improvement must closely follow the march of the Physical Sciences, and will ever be intimately interwoven with the advancement of several other arts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.