I rtf e 51 which products the Gum Lac ecu 3 1 \ 
water drains from it* The cpagulum is dried in 
the (hade, and is ufed as a red colour in painting 
and colouring. 
Dying, Take one gallon of the red liquid prepared as 
before without milk, to which add three ounces of 
allum. Boil three or four ounces of tamarinds- 
in a gallon of water , and drain the liquor. Mix 
equal parts of the red liquid and tamarind water 
over a brilk fire. In this mixture dip and wring 
the filk alternately until it has received a proper 
^quantity of the dye. To increafe the colour, in- 
creafe the proportion of the red liquid, and let 
the filk boil a few minutes in the mixture. To 
make the filk hold the colour, they boil a handful 
of the bark called Load in water, drain the de- 
codi|u, and add cold water to it ; dip the dried 
filk into this liquor feveral times, and then dry 
it. Cotton cloths are dyed in this manner ; but 
the dye is not fo lading as in filk. 
Spamfh wool. The Lac colour is preferved by the natives 
upon flakes of cotton dipped repeatedly into a 
ftrong folution of the Lac In fed in water, and 
then dried. 
Ufe to the Europeans. See European authors. 
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