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t,2 deep Red. 



Take 5 oz. of annotto, 

 1 lb. of polash, 

 2\ lbs. of alum, and 

 5 lbs. of madder. 

 Into a kettle witli eight buckets of water, put five ounces of madder^ 

 which has previously been finely powdered, add thereto a pound of 

 potash, boil it well for a quarter of an hour, run it through a sieve into 

 a vat, steep the silk in it, and work it well therein for an hour; then 

 take it out, rinse it, and let it dry; dissolve two and a half pounds of 

 alum in a kettle, pour the solution into a vat, steep the silk in it, work 

 it well therein for two hours, tben take it out, wring and dry it. 



Lastly: fill a kettle with eight buckets of water, add five pounds 

 of madder, heat it, but do not let it boil; while this is doing, moisten 

 the silk well in warm water, so as that all of it may be equally satu- 

 rated with the water; take it out and wring it; then steep it in the 

 above prepared lukewarm liquor of madder, work it well therein until 

 it begins to boil; let it boil a quarter of an hour longer, during which 

 time the silk must be worked continually; then take out, wring, and 

 dry it. The above process will produce a very handsome red. 



Jl Green. 



Take 1:$ lbs. of alum, 



1 lb. of potash, and 

 8 lbs. of turmeric. 



The silk must be first died in a cold keep, to a handsome light 

 blue; but caution must be used to lay the color equally throughout the 

 whole of the silk, and that no stains remain in any part of it; rinse 

 it in running water, wring it, and lay it by wet for further use. 



Immerse the silk in warm water, in such a manner that it will be 

 equally and uniformly saturated with the water; then wring it, anJ 

 lay it aside in its wet state for further use. 



After this, prepare a kettle with eight buckets of water, put into it 

 one pound of potash, and one and a quarter pounds of turmeric, and 

 let the whole boil well for about ten minutes; then pour the liquor 

 through a sieve into a vat, steep the silk in the liquor, and work it well 

 therein for the space of half an hour. At the expiration of this time, it 

 must be taken out, wrung, and put by for further use, in its wet state. 



Lastly: dissolve a kettle with eight buckets of fresh water, one and 

 a quarter pounds of alum, pour the solution into a vat, and work the 

 silk well therein for the space of a quarter of an hour, which will 

 change it to a handsome green; then take it out, rinse, wring, and dry 

 it in the shade. 



