PRACTICAL FLY-FISHER. 



ON DYEING FEATHEES FOR FLY-MAKING. 



FOR dyeing feathers ; always be careful to use clear, soft 

 water : to strike the colour, add to each pint of water 

 a piece of alum about the size of a walnut. 



To dye white feathers yellow ; boil them in onion 

 peel or saffron. Bloa feathers, as the quill of a starling, 

 by being boiled as above, will turn a beautiful olive 

 colour. 



To dye white feathers blue ; boil them in indigo : by 

 mixing the blue and yellow liquor together, and boiling 

 feathers in the mixture, they will be dyed green. 



Logwood dyes a kind of lilac or pink. 



To dye white feathers purple ; boil them in logwood, 

 or Brazil wood (without alum) till they are red, then 

 add a little potash. 



To dye feathers for the Green Drake ; boil them in 

 fustic till they are yellow, then add a little copperas to 

 subdue the colour to the proper shade. 



To turn red hackles brown ; boil them in copperas. 



Note. That copperas turns all colours you may be 

 dyeing to a darker or duller shade, 



To stain hair or gut a dun colour ; boil a handful of 

 walnut-tree leaves and a little soot, in a quart of water 

 for half an hour ; then steep the gut in the liquor till it 

 acquires the colour. 



To stain gut or hair blue ; warm some common 

 writing ink, in which steep it for a few minutes, and 

 immediately wash out in clear water. 



By steeping hair or gut in the onion dye, it will 



