Perkins and Perkins' Dye Company, Inc.

In 18 57, perkin and his brother delivered their first order to thomas keith and son's dyers. Almost immediately, it became apparent that while the pigment itself was consistent,. The way that fabrics took the dye was not. So silk, for example, would take the dye so rapidly that if it wasn't applied in a completely uniform manner, the color would be darker or more intense anywhere the fabric had been in the dye longer than another.