1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 207.

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Purple on Cotton,

Get up a tub of hot logwood-liquor, enter 3 pieces, give tliem 5 ends, hedge out ; enter them into a clean alum-tub, give them 5 ends, hedge out; get up another tub of logwood-liquor, enter, give them 5 ends, hedge out ; renew your alum-tub, give them 5 ends in that, and finish.

No. 208.

Black on Cotton. First take your pieces and boil them in sumach- liquor, in a large copper vessel, if you have it, that will hold 60 or 70 pieces, in which you put about a bushel and a half of sumach ; let them stay all night, if it is convenient ; take out, and enter them into- the lime-tub, 3 at a time ; give them 4 ends, hedge out ; enter them into the copperas-tub, give them 5 ends, hedge out; enter them into the lime again, give them 4 ends, hedge out ; enter them into another tub with tolerably strong logwood-liquor, give them 5 ends; put them to one side of the tub; put in enough copperas-liquor to blacken them, (about a. couple of quarts,) then give them a few more ends, and they are finished. With this process it ia the same as with the greens. After sumaching, liming, copperasiug, and second liming is repeated,, till you get as many as will answer you to finish that day, the tubs being renewed after each 3 pieces,, then comes the finishing; after each 3 pieces, the logwood and copperas liquor is thrown away, because