Mordanting

Word MORDANTING
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What do we mean by mordanting?

To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.

Caustic; biting; sarcastic. Urban Dictionary

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The word "mordanting" in example sentences

This method of indirect dyeing is known as the mordanting process; it consists of saturating the fabric to be dyed with chemicals which will unite with the coloring matter to form compounds unaffected by water. ❋ Bertha M. Clark (N/A)

There was water close at hand—rainwater in cisterns under the courtyard, or the spring in the fountain house we used for drinking water, or the river itself—but for mordanting Nasthai insisted on the pure mountain water that flowed all the way from the Ferinus on a stone causeway. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

The technique, once discovered and improved, became a standard for bright scarlet, supplanting the more traditional alum-mordanting process and ultimately replacing Venetian scarlet as the most desirable red color. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Was Macquer suggesting that the first stage, the yellow dyeing, should be understood as a mordanting process with respect to the final color? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Every dyer ought to be able to make experiments in the mordanting and dyeing of textile fibres for the purpose of ascertaining the best methods of applying mordants or dye-stuffs, the best methods of obtaining any desired shade, and for the purpose of making comparative tests of dyes or mordanting materials with the object of determining their strength and value. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

With vegetable fibers, however, a fast dye is not assured without mordanting. ❋ Various (N/A)

As mordanting materials bichromate of potash and fluoride of chrome are chiefly used when chrome mordants are required, sometimes chrome alum. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

A fine and cheap dark blue, for instance, is obtained by mordanting the wool as above stated and dyeing (20 kil.) in the second bath with 6 kil. alizarine WX and 2 kil. logwood chips; the wood is added to the bath together with the alizarine blue WX, and the best method is to put it into a bag which is hung in the bath. ❋ Various (N/A)

The best plan of carrying out the mordanting is to enter the wool in the cold bath or at a hand heat, and then raise to the boil and continue the boiling for one hour; of course the goods should be kept turned over during the process to facilitate the even mordanting of the wool. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

Blacks may be obtained from logwood by several methods, either by previous mordanting of the wool or by the stuffing and saddening methods, or by the one-bath process. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

Another plan which has been followed is to give the wool a bottom with 5 to 6 lb. of camwood or peachwood, then mordanting and dyeing us usual. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

Many precautions are required both in the mordanting and dyeing processes in order to obtain trustworthy results; and though the trials with bichromate of potash give the most reliable information of any single test, they should be supplemented by the subsidiary tests already alluded to, and also by a chemical examination, in order to obtain a knowledge, not merely of the wood strength, but also of the general nature of the extract. ❋ Various (N/A)

After the mordanting is finished the goods should be rinsed with water, but it is not necessary to dry them. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

The labour is the most important item in the mordanting and dyeing method. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

In some cases, as in dyeing with fustic or logwood, it gives rather brighter colours, due to the fact that the tanning matters present in the dye-stuffs is not fixed on the wool, as is the case with the mordanting method, but is retained in the dye-bath. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

The mordanting bath may be kept standing and used again for fresh lots of wool, in which case it is only necessary to add 2-1/2 lb. of bichromate of potash and 1 lb. sulphuric acid to the bath for each additional lot of wool that is being dealt with. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

After these come the dyeing operations proper, two in number, mordanting and dyeing. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

When dyeing with a mordant, the dyer should see that the mordanting operation is thoroughly well done, for as much care is required for the mordanting as for the actual dyeing; in fact, if anything, the mordanting should be done with rather more care, as if it be at all defective no amount of care in the following dyeing operations will ensure a level dyeing. ❋ Franklin Beech (N/A)

He smiled, [menacing] at her with mordant [glee]. ❋ Waterfalls__ (2005)

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