| After 1860 the focus on chemical innovation was in dyestuffs, and Germany took world leadership, building a strong chemical industry. |
| One of the major practical applications of chromophore chemistry is in the manufacture of synthetic dyes, or dyestuffs, for textiles. |
| Other uses of aniline include the manufacture of rubber processing chemicals and the production of agrochemicals and dyestuffs. |
| Textile dyestuffs typically include dyes such as acid dyes, basic dyes, direct dyes, disperse dyes, reactive dyes, sulfur dyes and vat dyes. |
| In subsequent decades, a rainbow of other aniline dyestuffs were synthesized and made available to textile colorists. |
| As the industrial revolution took hold increasing demand for alkali came from higher levels of production of dyestuffs, and bleach. |
