1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart
600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.
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vat continues to be good till exhausted. Mazarine blues, and deep purples, may be managed with this vat and archil-dye ; take care to rinse it well from one to the other. Archil forms a dye of itself with- out mordant, on silk and woollen, when boiled in water. No. 215. How to dye Straws Red. Boil ground Brazil-wood in a lye of potash, and boil your straw in it.
No. 216. Blue on Straw,
Take a sufficient quantity of potash-lye, 1 poi.R
No. 217. Turkey-Red on Leather.
After the skin has been properly prepared with sheep or pigs' dung, &c., take strong alurn-water, and sponge over your skin ; when dry, boil a strong gall-liquor, (it cannot be too strong;) then boil a strong Brazil-wood liquor, the stronger the better take a sponge, dip it in your liquor, and sponge over your skin : repeat this, till it comes to a full red. To finish your skin, take the white of eggs and a little gum-dragon, mix the two together in J gill of water, sponge over your skin, and, when dry, polish it with a bottle, or piece of glass prepared for the purpose.
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