1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

(500 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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— In both processes, let them have a chance

Note.

to air in drying.

No. 168. Blue Black on Silk. First run through a mordant of nitrate of iron and water; then run through pearlash-water ; then through nitrate of iron again ; then put them through logwood-liquor, with a little bluestone of vitriol dis- solved in it. If not dark enough, repeat the ope- ration. No. 169. Maroon on Silk. To 3 pounds silk take J pound cudbear; put it in water, and let it boil ; then put in your silk, and let it boil a few minutes. Keep your silk well handled ; take out, and you will have a good handsome colour. To change the shade, put in 2 pounds common salt, and operate as before : this will vary the shade. To vary it still further, take the silk, after boiling it the first time without the salt, and handle it in pearl- ash-water, or in cream of tartar, and you will have a handsome blue. No. 170. Orange on Silk or Cotton. Take 1 pound silk, 1 ounce annotto, 2 ounces pearlash, and boil them well together. Turn in your goods ; when boiled 10 minutes, take out, wash, and finish. If this orange is dark, handle the goods

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— These goods must be well washed out in