78 now TO DYE YELLOW AND BROWN. 



whole for half an hour. Take out your material, 

 and cool the dyeing fluid by the addition of a 

 little cold water. When cool, put In sulphuric 

 acid in manner and quantity as before ; next, add 

 your material to be dyed, and gently simmer the 

 whole for an hour over a slow fire. Then take 

 out fur or feathers, immerse in cold water, and 

 wring and dry as before. If you want a beauti- 

 ful claret hue, add, in the first boiling, to the 

 Brazil wood, half the quantity of logwood ; and, 

 in the second boiling, a bit of copperas the size 

 of a pea, and the size of a hazel-nut of pearl-ash. 

 Boil an hour, immerse material in cold water, 

 and rinse and dry as before. Take care that the 

 dyeing liquor be cool before you add to it the 

 sulphuric acid. 



For Yellow. — Water as before, in which put a 

 handful of bruised Persian berries ; boil for an 

 hour, and then add two tablespoonfuls of tur- 

 meric. Put in acid, mohair, &c., in manner and 

 quantity as before ; boil for half an hour, take 

 out and rinse in cold water, and dry. The ad- 

 dition of a tablespoonful of Brazil wood will 

 change your brilliant yellow to rich orange. 



For Brown, — Water as before, in which boil a 

 handful of walnut-rind, with a very small quan* 

 tity of red wood, and of logwood the size of a 



