1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

88 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

Boap, and in aluming them you may use a little sugar of lead.

No. 171. Gray on Silk.

Take 4 or 6 ounces of fine pow-

For a silk dress :

dered galls, and pour on them boiling water ; your silk in this for 20 or 30 minutes. In another form, dissolve a piece of green copperas about the size of a nut. Handle your silk through this, and it will be a gray, more or less dark, according to the quantity of drugs. handle

No. 172.

Slate on Silk, To make a slate, take another pan of warm water and about a teacupful of logwood-liquor, pretty strong, and a piece of pearlash of the size of a nut. Take the above gray-coloured goods and handle a little in this liquor, and it is finished. Note. — If too much logwood is used, the colour will be too dark.

No. 173.

Olive on Silk. By adding a little fustic-liquor to the above siate, it will form an olive : it may be necessary to run them through a weak pearlash- water to saddeu them. Wash in two waters for the above three colours. They vdll keep their colour very well.