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ally, as exposure to air during tlie process of dyeing tends to 

 promote and fix the black color. 



" A mixture of blue and red dyeing liquor boiled together, 

 and afterwards cooled, and acid added to it, will produce a 

 purple color. 



" A mixture of blue and yellow dyeing liquor will produce, 

 in accordance with your varying and modifying it, greens of 

 all shades. 



"A mixture of blue, red, and yellow liquor produces bright 

 olives, the hues of which may be sobered by the introduction 

 of logwood. 



"For Bright Scarlet. — Water as usual, in which put a tea- 

 spoonful of crystallized tartar. In this liquid boil the mate- 

 rials you are about to dye ; take them out, and put in a table- 

 spoonful of powdered cochineal and a teaspoonfal of ' grain- 

 spirit,' which can be bought at the drysalter's When in a 

 simmering state, reintroduce your materials — feathers or fur, 

 &;c., — and boil the whole gently for half an hour. Wash, 

 rinse, and dry your materials as usual. 



" Yellow, and its Varieties for Feathers. — The recipe already 

 given for dyeing yellow, suits pig's-wool, mohair, and furs 

 best. The present recipe is better for feathers, hackles, &c- 

 Boil two or three handfuls of yellow- wood one hour in a 

 quart of soft water ; wash the feathers, be they mottled mal- 

 lard or any sort of hackle (light-colored ones are the best to 

 be dyed yellow), in soap and hot water. They must be tied 

 in bunches at the quill end. Boil these bunches a short 

 time in a pint of water, to which you have added a large 

 spoonful of alum and tartar, in a pipkin. Take them out 

 and immerse them in your yellow dyeing liquor, and let it 

 simmer for an hour or two, more or less, according to your 

 desire for a paler or deeper yellow. Finally, take out the 

 feathers, and rinse them in hard spring water. Eed hackles, 



