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decoction of woad or weld, (Reseda luteola,) dyer's weed as 

 it is commonly called, they will acquire a brilliant yellow 

 colour. While feathers may be dyed dun, by first simmer- 

 ing them in alum water until thoroughly soaked, and then 

 boil them in water with fustic, shumac, and a small 

 quantity of copperas. 



To stain feathers an olive dun, &c. Make a very strong 

 infusion of the outside brown coating of an onion, by allow- 

 ing 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 use- 

 ful 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 various shades of red, amber, and broivn. 

 First, boil them in alum mordant, already mentioned ; 

 secondly, boil them in an infusion of fustic strong enough 

 to bring them to a bright yellow, (about a tablespoonf ul 

 to a pint of water ;) then boil them in a dye of madder, 

 peach wood, or Brazil wood. To set the colour put a few 

 drops of dyer's spirits, (i.e. nitrate of tin combined with a 

 small quantity of salt,) which may be had from a silk-dyer, 

 into the last-mentioned 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 frequent examination, they are found to have 

 taken the proper colour. 



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 



