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for coloring a handsome pale yellow, with the above remains of the 

 yellow liquor. 



►i Pale Yellow. 



Take 2 lbs. of alum. 



Prepare the silk with alum, as directed in the foregoing receipt, and 

 lay it away for further use. Then warm the liquor, which has been 

 used in the coloring of the foregoing operation, put it into a vat, im- 

 merse the silk in the liquor, and work it v;ell therein for the space of 

 half an hour. This being done, take it out, wring it, i\x it on the 

 wringing post, wring and beat it well, which will give it a gloss. 



It is not necessary that the silk should be rinsed in yellow coloring. 



SEVERAL DIRECTIONS FOR DYING WITH QUERCITRON BARK. 



*/i Citron Yellow. 



Take 3 lbs. of alum, and 



1 lb. 3 ounces of quercitron bark. 



Dissolve the alum in a kettle, witli ten buckets of water, pour the 

 solution into a vat, immerse the silk in the solution, and work it wiell 

 therein a little longer than usual; take it out, wring and rinse it, and 

 lay it by for further use, in its wet state; put ten buckets of fresh 

 water in a kettle, warm it, put the quercitron in a bag, and boil it 

 until the strength is extracted. Then immerse the silk in the liquor, 

 And work it well therein a quarter of an hour, which will produce a 

 !iandsome lively citron yellow. 



^ high-colored Yellow. 



This color may be heightened to its utmost extent of yellow, by 

 adding a few half ounces of soda, more or less, according to the deep 

 or bright shades of color desired, to the above yellow liquor; but this 

 must not be done until the silk has been completely saturated with the 

 yellow liquor of quercitron. 



Orange Color. 



Orange color is obtained by adding to the liquor at the same time 

 with the soda, a proportional quantity of annotto, and by working it in 

 this liquor until the desired color has been obtained. 



Pale Yellow, or Straw Color. 



Take less alum and quercitron, and dispense altogether with the 

 ^oda.and annotto. 



