1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 177. Dove on Silk. Take Brazil logwood and sumach ; vary the quantities as you want your shade; boil them in water, then enter your goods, handle well, and sad- den with green copperas.

No. 178. Yelloio on Silk. Boil quercitron-bark in a copper

pan

20

for

minutes, any quantity yoa please. Dip a suificient quantity to cover your silk in another copper pan, or tinned vessel, to which add a small quantity of muriate of tin; pass your silks first through warm water, and wring them out ; then put them into this pan of dye-water, and handle them with a clean stick till cold ; when cold, take out, throw out your liquor, take from the first pan as much liquor as before handle in this 10 minutes, then add muriate of tin according to shade wanted. Rinse out in its own liquor, and dry in a warm room. Annotto affords an orange yellow with equal quantities of pearlash, and gives out its colour to silk in warm water. Turmeric gives out its colour in a similar manner. The roots of barberry afford a yellow of themselves when boiled in water.

No. 179. Crimson on Silk.

Take cudbear, boil it in water; then just rinse or handle your silks in it for a few minutes, you have