1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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handle your goods in

in a little sulphate of indigo ; this till of the shade wanted. Note.

— The ebony may previously be boiled in a

bag, to prevent it from sticking to the silk.

No. 165. Sulphate of Indigo. Take 3 pounds of vitriol and 1 pound of ground indigo ; put in a little at a time, and keep stirring till all dissolved. Let stand for 24 hours, and theu it is ready for use.

No. 166. Blue on Silk.

Indigo, same as for green ;

you will have a blue.

Note. — The silk ought to be boiled in white soap and water and made quite white, and then rinsed in lukewarm water. No. 167. Black on Silk. Take 1 ounce of bluestone of vitriol, 2 ounces of copperas, and J- ounce of nitrate of iron. Mix all together with as much water as will do one piece have the water a little warm. Hedge in this 6 times, backward and forward ; take out, and rinse in water. Take another tub, and put in it as much logwood-liquor that has in it 1 pound of logwood and 1 ounce of fustic-liquor; hedge in this liquor with a sufficient quantity of water till black ; wash out, and

finish.