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natural shades of yellow green. The quantity 

 of tartar and alum, and of dye-stuff is given in 

 this dye ; and the preceding which will show 

 what must be used in all shades of colour, 

 according to the quality or your own taste. 



TO DYE CLAKET. 



Boil two handfuls of red-wood, or ground 

 Brazil-wood, for an hour, with a handful of 

 log- wood ; then take a table-spoonful of oil of 

 vitriol, and put it into half a tea cup of cold 

 water ; and when the dye-pot is a little cold, 

 add it to the liquor, stir it, and put it on with 

 the hackles or hair, and boil it gently for two 

 hours ; take out your material, and put it into 

 cold water ; add to the dye it comes out of a 

 little copperas, and a small quantity of pearl- 

 ashes, about the size of a nut of copperas, and 

 a quarter that size of the ashes ; put in your 

 hackles or material again, and when the 

 proper shade is obtained, rinse and wash well, 

 and finish in urine, which brightens tliem, and 

 your colour is good. 



