60 ON COLORING. 



for one hour, and then strain off the liquor and steep the cotton 

 therein for two or three hours. Take it out of this hquor and 

 steep it for the same length of time in a mixture of warm water 

 and fresh cow dung, rinse it out and dry it. Dissolve three 

 ounces of alum in one gallon of water, soak the cotton in this 

 and lime water alternately, and dye it slowly with the quercitron 

 bark as before directed. By the addition of madder, the yellow 

 may be raised to orange, k,c. 



Woolen, silk, or cotton goods colored yellow as directed, may 

 be immersed in the saxon blue dye, (second method,) and made 

 to take any shade of green which may be desired. 



RED. 



CBIMSON ON WOOL OR SILK. 



Provide yourself with the following articles — Alum 1-2 lb., 

 cream of tartar 1-4 lb., Nicaragua wood 1 1-2 lbs. — dissolve 

 the alum and tartar in four pails of water, in a brass or copper 

 kettle, when boiling, put in the cloth, yarn he, and continue 

 the boiling two hours, then take it out and cool and wash it. — 

 Fill the kettle again with water, put in the Nicaragua wood tied 

 up in a bag, put in the cloth and boil one hour, take it out and 

 wash it, and if you wish to change the color to crimson, add one 

 ounce or more of pearlash to the liquor, and boil again for fifteen 

 minutes. 



MADDER RED. 



Soak the cloth fcc. as directed in the last receipt, then instead 

 of the Nicaragua wood, put into four pails full of water, 1 1-2 lbs. 

 of madder and 1-4 lb. of the nitro muriate of tin, and when 

 blood warm put in the cloth and turn it continually till it boils, 

 take it out immediately and dip it into lime water and turn it for 

 a few minutes without boiling, take it out and wash it, he. The 

 quantity of dye-stuffs mentioned in these receipts, are calculated 

 for about 2 1-2 lbs. of woolen goods. 



SCARLET. 



Firstly, color as directed for the most brilliant yellow, then 

 take one ounce of powdered cochineal for every pound of cloth. 



