94 DYEING HACKLES VARIOUS COLOURS. 



produce a yellow dun tint; the shumach and 

 copperas a blue dun tint. The greater the quan- 

 tity of copperas the deeper will be the dye. 



To turn red hackles brown. Put a piece of 

 copperas, the size of half a walnut, into a pint of 

 water ; boil it, and whilst boiling put in the red 

 feathers. Let them remain in it until, by fre- 

 quent examination, they are found to have taken 

 the proper colour. 



To stain feathers an olive dun, fyc. Make a 

 very strong infusion of the outside brown coating 

 of an onion, by allowing the whole to infuse by 

 the fire for twelve hours. If dun feathers are 

 boiled in this dye, they will become an olive dun, 

 and white feathers a yellow. If a small piece of 

 copperas be added, the latter colour will become 

 a useful muddy yellow, darker or lighter as 

 may be required, and approaching to a yellow 

 olive dun, according to the quantity of copperas 

 used. 



To dye feathers dark red and purple. Hackles 

 of various colours, boiled (without alum) in an 

 infusion of logwood and Brazil wood dust until 

 they are as red as they can be made by this 

 means, may be changed to a deeper red by putting 

 them into a mixture of muriatic acid and tin, and 

 to a purple by a warm solution of potash. As 

 the muriatic acid is not to be saturated with tin, 

 the solution must be made diluted. If it burns 



