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0628 | Thursday, July 6, 2006

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Photograph courtesy of the Heymann family

Traditional Ways: Adolphe Heymann (left), M. Taxerra (center) and Armand Heymann dye carpets at the old dye plant at 224 E. Santa Clara St. in 1927. The family still operates the business.

Family continues rug-dyeing tradition in the Rose Garden for a half-century

'DeLuxe' dye method unique to West Coast

By Mary Gottschalk

The history of DeLuxe Dye Works is filled with feathers, dyeing techniques learned in France in the late 1800s. more >>

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