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bottle, but it is some trouble to prepare, and may- 

 be had already made at a dyer's. 



It requires a white ground to produce a good 

 blue. 



To Dye Purple oe Yiolet. 



First dye your materials blue and let them dry, 

 according to the recipe already given. Then bruise 

 a couple of table-spoonfuls of cochineal, which boil 

 until the color is extracted ; then put in the blue 

 hackles, or other feathers, and simmer them over 

 the fire until the purple is obtained. 



Wash and dress as before directed. 



To Dye Claeet. 



Bruise a handful of nutgalls and boil them half an 

 hour, with a table-spoonful of oil of vitriol in half 

 a cup of water. Put in your material and boil for 

 two hours ; add a piece of copperas the size of a 

 walnut, and a little pearl ashes. Boil until a fine 

 bright claret is produced. 



Wash and dress as before. 



To Dye Black. 



Boil two handfuls of logwood with a little 

 sumach and elder bark for an hour; put in the 

 hackles or feathers, and boil very gently. Put in a 

 little bruised copperas, a little argil, and some soda ; 

 leave the feathers in for some hours with a gentle 

 heat, then wash the dye well out of them, dry and 



