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ANOTHER WAY TO DYE CLARET. 



Take a handful of nut galls and bruise them, 

 put them into the crucible and boil them half 

 an hour, add to the dye a table-spoonful of oil 

 of vitriol in half a cup of water, put in the 

 hackles and boil two hours ; then add to the 

 liquor a little pearl ashes, and a piece of 

 copperas the size of a nut, boil gently for two 

 hours or as long as required to suit the taste 

 of the dyer, rinse and wash them well, the 

 ashes need not be used in this dye, but if 

 used a very small quantity will suffice. 



Another way : — boil red wood powdered for 

 two hours (two handfuls), and then put the 

 hackles in, boil an hour longer, let the liquor 

 cool, and put into a tea cup half full of water 

 nearly a table-spoonful of aqua-fortis and pour 

 it into the dye, stir well occasionally and keep 

 the hackles down, boil for two hours more and 

 rinse off, finish in a little urine. If a very 

 dark claret is required lay them in to boil for a 

 day and night with a scalding heat. 



