1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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the goods, bring to a boil, take out, wash well, ana ^ finish. To mix the copperas with alum would materially^ i alter the shade, if a variety was wanted. (This is chiefly intended for wool.)

No. 187. A Jet Black on Wool or Woollen Cloth.

For 7 pounds wool or woollen cloth, take 3 pounds logwood, f pound sumach, f pound fustic boil these drugs in a sufficient quantity of water for 20 minutes ; cool down, put in your goods, bring to a boil half an hour, then take out ; cool down your liquor; add copperas, dissolved in water, IJ pounds, bluestone of vitriol, 2 ounces ; again enter your goods, bring to a boil, 15 minutes, take out, wash well in cold water, and finish.

No. 188. Blue Prussian on Woollen.

Take an}^ quantity of calcined copperas, dissolve it in warm water, strong, put in your goods, keep them well handled till the water comes nearly to a boil; still handle 15 minutes; then rinse the goods in cold water; get up another kettle of 1 of urine to 3 of water; bring the water to hand-heat; put in your goods, handle half an hour ; again rinse in cold water; get up another kettle of water, hand-heat, and for each pound of goods, 3 ounces prussiate of potash ; put some oil of vitriol in the kettle ; handle the goods half an hour. If the colour looks greeu,