Infest which produces the Gum Laced * 38 1. 
water drains from it. The coagulum is dried in 
the fhade, and is ufed as a red colour in painting 
and colouring. 
Dying. Take one gallon of the reel liquid prepared as 
before without milk, to which add three ounces of 
allurru Boil three or four ounces of tamarinds 
in a gallon or water, and ft rain the liquor. Mix 
equal pa.rts of the red liquid and tamarind water 
over a brifk 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 Loadan water, ftrain the de- 
codion, 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 lafting as in filk. 
Spanifh wool. The Lac colour is preferved by the natives 
upon flakes of cotton dipped repeatedly into at 
ftrong folution of the Lac Xnfed in water, and 
then dried. 
Ufe to the Europeans. See European authors. 
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