306 DYES. 



and madder are imported. As a specimen of 

 the process I give the following receipt : — 



Eed dye. Twelve chuttaks of bitter oil are 

 mixed with the same quantity of iskhar, and one 

 pound of camel's dung. The cloth is placed 

 therein for four days, and then dried in the sun 

 for eleven days. It is then cleaned, and put 

 into water with two chuttaks of tamarisk berries, 

 after which it is again dried, and then put into an 

 earthen vessel containing two chuttaks of alum, 

 and again dried and washed. Twelve chuttaks 

 of madder are then put into a large copper ves- 

 sel with twenty seers of water, and boiled. 

 The cloth is placed in this until well coloured, 

 and then finally dried and cleaned. 



END OF VOL. I. 



JOHN CHIIDS AND SON, PRINTERS. 



