1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

99

then pour on it hot water,

Vitriol, stir it well up ;

about 2 gallons, stir this well up ; then, having half a tubful of water boiling hot from the boiler, pour on it the contents of the small tub ; enter 3 pieces, 30 yards each, give them 6 or 8 ends, as the work- men term it, fold up. The next process is to have another tub of water, put in it half a pailful of alum- liquor, give the pieces 3 or 4 ends in this, take out, and finish. Renew with the same quantity for the next 3 pieces, and proceed. Note, — By ends is meant rinsing the pieces backward and forward over the wince in the tub. Half a hogshead will answer the purpose. It will be understood that these cotton colours are intended for linings or cambrics. It will also be understood that the liquors must be prepared as in Receipt No. 161, or by boiling in a copper cistern the former is most 'generally adopted for this kind of dyeing. It will be necessary to have a number of tubs for the different liquors^ and in dyeing various shades to have the liquors prepared in readiness. Green on Cotton, Take as much hot fustic-liquor as will cover f^ pieces, in which is put a very little lime-liquor, put it in a tub, enter your goods, give them 5 ends, hedge them out ; take another tub, half full of water, (cold,) put into it a sufficient quantity of blue-stone of vitrio^ liquor to set the tub, about 2 quarts; enter your goods in this, give them 5 ends, hedge out; then take a couple of pailfuls of the fustic-liquor, renew the first No. 200.