1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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take out, wash, and finish.

bumach, — ahoiit 2 ounc.-s to the pound of logwood. To alter this shade, put into jour li(jnor a proportionally small quantity of alum-liquor, again enter the goods: you will have a good haudsome shade on silklas well as woollen. This will be a good ^hade of brov/n. -No. 185. A Black inclining to Purple, on Wool and Silk. Take 4 pounds logwood, 1 pound sumach; boil them in a sufficient quantity of water; cool down with water enough to dye 4 or 5 pounds of silk or wool ; enter the goods ; bring them to a boil, for 10 minutes ; take out, partly cool down ; put in about 1 pound copperas; again enter your goods, bring them to a boil, take out, wash, and finish. (Chiefly intended for wool.) N.B. — A pair of pantaloons, or any other article which is old, would not need to be so particular in quantity of dye-stuiis or length of time. It will also answer for cotton, and that without sumach, if the sumach is not at hand. (This is intended chiefly for woollen.) No. 186. A Black inclining to Brown, on Silk and Woollen. Take 1 part sumach, 1 logwood, 1 h}^ernick or peach-wood; boil the dye-stuffs; cool down; put in the silk or woollen according to the quantity of your dye-woods, bring them to a boil, for 10 minutes, take out the goods, cool down ; having put in a Buflicient quantity of dissolved copperas, again enter