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As soon as the liquor is become milk-warm, dip your cot- 

 ton hank by hank, handling: it carefully all the time, and 

 and let it steep tvventv-Fouv iiours. 



Then ring it caremlly and equally, and dry it well with- 

 out washing. 



Step v.— First Alum Steep. 



Dissolve twenty-five pounds of Roman alum in fourteca 

 pails of warm water, without making it boil ; skim the li- 

 quor well, and add two pails of strong barilla water, and 

 then let it cool until it beluke-warm. 



Dip your cotton, and handle it hank by hank, and let it 

 steep twenty-four hours ; wring it equally, and dry it well 

 without washing. 



Step VI. — S(ro?id Alum Steep. 



Is performed in every particular like the last ; but after 

 the cotton is dry steep it six hours in the river, and then 

 wash and dry it. 



Step \U.— Dyeing Steep. 



The cottcin is dyed bv about ten pounds at once, for 

 which take about two gallons and a half of ox blood, and 

 mix it in the copper with twenty-eight pails of milk-warm 

 water, and stir it well ; then add twenty-five pounds of 

 madder, and stir all well together. Then, having before- 

 hand put the ten pounds of cotton on sticks, dip it into the 

 liquor, and mo\e and turn it constantly one hour, during 

 which gradually increase the heat until the liquor begins to 

 boil at the end of the hour. Then sink the cotton and 

 boil it o-entlv one hour longer, and Ia~;tly wash it and dry it. 



Take out so much of the^boiling liquor that what remains 

 may produce a milk-warm heat with the fresh water with 

 which the copper is again tilled up, and then proceed to 

 make up a dyeing liquor, as above, for the next ten pounds 

 of cotton. 



Step VIII,— TAe Fixing Steep. 



Ivlix equal parts of the gray-steep liquor and of the white- 

 steep liquor, taking five or six pails of each. — Tread down 

 the cotton into this mixture, and let it 3teep six hours; then 

 wring it moderately and equally, and dry it u ithout wash- 

 ing. 



Step IX. — Brighton Steep. 



lOib. of white soap must be dissolved most carefully and 



completely in sixteen or eighteen pails of warm w ater : if 



anv little bits of the iuap remain undis'jolved they will make 



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