1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

91

Chamber-lye or any ftlkaline

the shade wanted.

solution will change the colour.

No. 180.

Flesh-Colour on Silk.

Having first thoroughly cleaned your .silk in the usual manner, rinse in warm water; then handle them in a very slight water of alum and tartar, — so slight that you could hardly taste it. Then, if you have been dyeing pinks, (Receipt [N'o. 162,) take some of the old liquor, handle in it till of the shade wanted. The liquor must not be too strong, or the shade will be too heavy. No. 181. Brown on Woollen Cloth, or Cloths of any description. The quantity of woods to be regulated according to the quantity of goods to be dyed. For instance, a pair of men's pantaloons, being first well cleaned from all grease : take 1 pound red-wood, hypernick, or peach-wood, 1 pound fustic, put them in a copper kettle, boil them, then cool down so as to bear in it your hand ; then put in a small quantity of cream of tartar; agitate the water; then enter your goods, handle them till they come to a boil, 5 or 10 minutes take out the goods, put in a strong solution made of 4 ounces copperas, again cool down, re-enter the goods, again bring them to a boil; take out; rinse well in water. (Finished.) This process makes a good substantial brown, and might be varied in the shade by varying the quanti-