1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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add a little more vitriol, handle half an hour longer, take out, wash in cold water, and finish.

No. 189.

Green on Wool.

For 6 pounds yarn, worsted, or cloth, take 3 pounds fustic, | pound alum ; boil them in a kettle 10 minutes, partly cool down ; then put in a small teacupful sulphate of indigo, rake it well up, enter your goods well handled, let boil 20 minutes, (if a larger quantity, boil longer in proportion ;) take out, and, if not blue enough, add a httle more sulphate of indigo ; handle until deep enough. Rinse in cold water, and finish. This shade may be altered in a variety of ways, by adding a little camwood, or logwood, in the first boiling.

No. 190.

Lilac on Wool.

Boil up any quantity of archil, according to the quantity of goods you want to dye ; cool the liquor a little, enter the goods, handle carefully, until the shade is deep enough, without boiling the liquor, take out, wash, and finish. One pound of archil will dye 4 J pounds of goods. Silk may be dyed in. the same way. The shades may be altered by soda, pearlash, wine, or common salt, adding a little, and re-entering the goods before washing, and handling a little while longer.