1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 174.

Stone on Silk.

Take the coloured gray, (see Receipt 'No. 171.) Add a sufficient quantity of purple archil to the gray liquor. To give them a red sandy cast, add a

Simmer the silk in this a few

red archil.

little

Dry

Rinse in one or two cold waters.

minutes.

in the air. made from purple archil, by adding a small quantity of vitriol and water, which will redden it. The red archil is

No. 175. To dye a Silk Dress Brown.

Take 8 ounces sumach, 4 ounces logwood, 8 ounces camwood or madder; boil these drugs in water, then cool down your liquor; wet out your silks ; then enter them ; handle well ; wash out as usual. For a mulberry cast, add as much purple archil as may be necessary.

No. 176. Drab on Silk.

For a silk dress :

Take 4 ounces archil, 1 ounce

niadder; enter and handle the goods. This may be saddened by taking out your goods and dissolving m the liquor a piece of green copperas, the size of a nut; again handle in this liquor. Or, what is slill better, instead of copperas, use a little pearlash to sadden with. 8*