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Claret for Wool or Worsted— A Short Way of Dyeing tha 

 Same. — Water, 3 gals.; cudbear, 12 ozs. ; logwood, 4ozs.; old fustic, 4 ozs.; 

 alum, % oz. Boil the goods in it 1 hour. "Wash. This will dye from 1 to 

 2 lbs of material. 



Crimson for Worsted or Wool. — Water, 3 gals.; paste cochineal, 



1 oz. ; cream of tartar, 1 oz. ; nitrate of tin (tin dissolved in nitric acid, I think, 

 — it used to be dissolved in amixtureof sulpliuric and muriatic acids, and called 

 ' ' muriate of tin,") a wine-glassful. Boil your goods in this 1 hour. Wash first 

 in cold water, then in another vessel with 3 gals, warm water with a cup of 

 ammonia, the whole well mixed. Put in the goods and work well 15 minutes. 

 For a bluer shade add more ammonia. Then wash out. 



Fawn Drab for Silk.— Hot water, 1 gal.; annotto liquor, 1 wine-glassful; 



2 ozs. each of sumach and fustic. Add copperas liquor according to the 

 required shade. Wash out. It is best to use the copperas liquor in another 

 vessel, diluted according to the shade desired. 



Blue on Cotton Rags- Does Not Fade.- For 3 lbs. of rags: prus- 

 siate of potash, 1 oz. ; oil of vitriol, 1 oz. ; and 2 large table-spoonfuls of cop- 

 peras. Put all the ingredients together in an iron kettle, with a sufficient quan- 

 tity of water, and when well dissolved put in the rags, stir well, and when they 

 are of the desired color take them out and rinse well. It will probably take 

 from 3^ to ^ of an hour to color. Be sure and rinse thoroughly. 



"True Blue" for One Pound of Rags that will Not Fade.— 

 A lady in writing to the Blade says: " I see Mrs. Gloyd wants a recipe for col- 

 oring blue on cotton, that will not fade, so I come in with one that I know to 

 be good, as I have used it for 2 carpets and it has proved itself ' true blue ' every 

 time. One oz. Prussian blue, % oz. oxalic acid; pulverize together, and dissolve 

 in hot water sufficient to cover the goods. Dip the goods in this dye until they 

 are the desired shade; then wring out and thoroughly rinse in alum water." 



Blue for Carpet Rags— Better than with Prussian Blue.— To 

 the same inquiry " Perseverance Ann," of Pleasant Lake, Ind., says: " I must 

 tell Mrs. E. G. Gloyd of a better way to color carpet rags blue than with Prus- 

 sian blue and oxalic acid. Take 4 ozs. prussiate of potash, 2 ozs. copperas, and 

 2 ozs. nitric acid, and dissolve in warm soft water, enough to cover the rags. 

 This will color from 3 to 5 lbs., according to the shade you want. If you coloi 

 part of them at a time you will have different shades. Wash the rags in the 

 dye, wring out and air, and wash again till the color sets, which ought to be 

 within half an hour; then rinse thoroughly and dry slowly in the shade. This 

 colors woolen as well as cotton." 



Remarks. — Take your choice of plans, now, you have both. See her drab, 

 below. 



Copperas Color for Carpet Rags, with Lye.— Mrs. M. M. Stark, of 

 Nankin, Mich., to an inquirer in the Detroit Tribune, for coloring with cop- 

 peras, says : "I have a good one, which I send. Dissolve ^ pound copperas 

 in a pail fuU of hot water, also have a pail full of white Ije prepared. First 



