In 1899, American Joe Bush put up a clothes cleaning and dyeing at Plaza Sta. Cruz, Manila. The shop simply bore his name and the slogan: “Take That Stain to JOE BUSH—The Cleaner and Dyer That Pleases” But it was the dyeing service that proved to be so popular that by the 1920s, the proprietor emphasized that specialty service by branding his shop “Joe Bush Dyer & Cleaner.”
The shop also sold dye powder in paper sachets bearing his name, for easy do-it-yourself coloring projects at home. As late as the psychedelic tie-dyed 1970s, people called commercial powder dyes as “dyobus,” an unconscious tribute to the man who colored our world!
Ang tinatawag pong dyobus n nakagisnan ko from late 50's ay yung pong tinitimpla sa tubig at ipinupunas sa mga sahig kahoy man o semento para pumula at pag natuyo ay papahiran ng floor wax at bubunutin para kumintab. Yung pong asul na tinitimpla sa tubig para sa huling anlaw ng mga puting damit ay tinatawag na kulor o tina.
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