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Title: Silk or River Dyer
Original Title: Teinturier en soie ou teinturier de rivière
Volume and Page: Plates vol. 10 (1772)
Author: Unknown
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.619
Citation (MLA): "Silk or River Dyer." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.619>. Trans. of "Teinturier en soie ou teinturier de rivière," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 10 (plates). Paris, 1772.
Citation (Chicago): "Silk or River Dyer." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.619 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Teinturier en soie ou teinturier de rivière," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 10 (plates) (Paris, 1772).

The plate captions have been translated but not the legends. To volunteer to translate the legends, please contact diderot-info@umich.edu.

Containint Nine Plate Because of One Double One.

Plate I: River Dyer, Workshop and Various Operations to Dye Silk Yarn


Plate II: Dyer, Plan, Cut and Elevation of Various Boilers


Plate III: Dyer, Plan, Cut and Elevation of the Indigo Vat


Plate IV: Dyer, Workshop and Tools


Plate V: Silk Dyer, Various Implements for Silk Dyeing


Plate VI: Dyer, Washing Silk Yarn in the River and Service of the Wringing Pole


Plate VII: Dyer, Various Preparations of Saffron and Tools


Plate VIII: Dyer, Silk Yarn Dryer, Etc.