90 DYEINa HACKLES VARIOUS COLOURS. 



brilliant. A little practice, and the noting of the 

 various results after each trial, will soon make 

 the angler familiar with the methods of varying 

 the colours so as to meet his wishes. These in- 

 structions, Mr. Packer states, apply to wool also, 

 which may be tinted in the same manner. 



Mr. Ronalds dyes white feathers a dun colour 

 thus: Make a mordant by dissolving about a 

 quarter of an ounce of alum in a pint of water, 

 and slightly boil the feathers in it, taking care 

 that they should be thoroughly soaked or saturated 

 with the solution ; then boil them in other water 

 with fustick, shumach, and a small quantity of 

 copperas, put into it until they have assumed the 

 required tint. The fustick and copperas will 

 produce a yellow-dun tint, the shumach and cop- 

 peras a blue-dun tint. The greater the quantity 

 of copperas, the deeper will be the dye. 



To turn red hackles brown. Put a piece of 

 copperas, the size of half a walnut, into a pint of 

 water ; boil it, and whilst boiling put in the red 

 feathers. Let them remain in it until, by fre- 

 quent examination, they are found to have taken 

 the proper colour. 



To stain feathers an olive dun, &c. Make a 

 very strong infusion of the outside brown coating 

 of an onion, by allowing the whole to infuse by 

 the fire for twelve hours. If dun feathers are 

 boiled in this dye, they will become an olive dun, 



