1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUAILE KECEIPTS.

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No. 191.

Drab on Woollen.

For about fifteen pounds of woollen goods, take } pounds weld, 9 ounces madder, 4 ounces logwood, 3 ounces archil ; put them in water, bring them to a boil for 10 or 15 minutes, cool down; enter the goods, boil 15 minutes, wind up; put in 1 ounce alum, IJ ounce copperas, ground ; boil a few minutes longer, during which time handle well ; take out, wash, and finish. The above receipt may serve as a standard of procedure for all the drab shades (which may be altered at pleasure) that can be pro- duced, only varying the quantities of drugs, in some cases adding archil, and in others a little sulphate of indigo. Red tartar and. camwood may also be used. The copperas and alum may be varied in quantity, or increased, or the alum left out, thus varying the whole round.

No. 192.

Red on Woollen.

For 10 pounds of woollen goods, take 2 pounds alum, h pound red tartar; boil the goods in this 1 hour, (if a larger quantity of goods, boil longer;) then boil up 4J pounds peachwood in clean water, cool down to a scald, put in 2 ounces ^o. 1 tin-liquor, enter the goods, handle until dark enough, and finish. The goods must not be washed between the first and Becond operations.