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of tartar, while these are boiling and perfectly 

 dissolved, put into it your hackles or hair, 

 and boil gently for an hour or half an hour ; 

 take off your pots and enter the hackles into 

 the yellow dye out of the liquor into which 

 you put the alum and tartar, and boil them 

 very slowly for an hour, taking them out at 

 intervals to see the shade you require ; if too 

 pale you must put more turmeric in, and if too 

 heavy in shade the next trial, put in less, and 

 do the same with all colours till you please 

 your own eye. When they are the proper 

 colour, take them out and wash them in soap 

 and hot water. Draw them evenly through 

 your fingers in the bunch, and let them dry, as 

 this keeps them in shape. 



There are three or four ways to dye yellow by 

 changing the stuff. Fill your pots nearly full 

 of soft water, and put into one the tartar and 

 alum, and into the other two or three handfuls 

 of yellow wood, which must be boiled slowly 

 for three or four hours ; when^it is well boiled, 

 strain off the liquor from the wood into a basin, 

 and throw the wood away; put the dyeing 

 liquor into the pot again, and when boiling 

 take out the hackles from the mordant of tartar 



