HOUSE AND GARDEN 
November, 
1913 
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NATIONAL EIRE: PROOFING • COMPANY 
Dept. Y. PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 
Offices 
in all 
Principal 
Cities 
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Residence of Joseph M. Dale, 
Asbury Park, N. J. 
W. C. & A. F. Cottrell, Architects. 
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Batik—Its Making and Its Use 
(Continued from page 290) 
is specially recommended. This is called 
the “ferrous sulphate,” or the lime and 
copperas vat, because lime and copperas 
are used to bring the indigo in the solu¬ 
tion. 
Iron buff is a permanent and beautiful 
yellow dye, made of a mineral substance— 
salts of iron. This is a huffish, or some¬ 
times called colonial yellow; iron gray is 
another oxide which may be developed by 
adding tannic acid to salts of iron. 
There are two good browns — perman¬ 
ganate of potash, a mineral dye, and cate¬ 
chu, which can be classed as a vegetable 
dye, and which also gives an excellent and 
permanent color. 
Among the artificial dyes are the arti¬ 
ficial indigos. These are not very satisfac¬ 
tory, as they are rather difficult and ex¬ 
pensive. Their own advantage is that they 
are the only series of dye products which 
produce a permanent red dye. 
The most satisfactory of all the artificial 
dye products are known as the sulphur 
dyes. Of these, the blacks, grays and yel¬ 
lows are the most satisfactory. The blues 
and browns can be used, but are somewhat 
crude in tone. These artificial products 
can be procured at any of the large manu¬ 
facturers of dye products and chemicals. 
The methods for procuring more than 
one color on cotton and linen with Batik 
are limited, but the results interesting 
when obtained. With indigo, for instance, 
one may get a blue and white reserve. 
From this a green and yellow combination 
may be developed by greening over the in¬ 
digo with the vegetable dye—quercitron. 
The wax must be entirely removed, the 
batik mordanted with the proper mordant 
and then boiled in the quercitron. Indigo, 
with the white reserve, may be successfully 
redyed in catechu, giving reserves of blue 
and brown, or with blue, white and brown. 
Blue with yellow, by first dyeing the white 
reserve, may be obtained with indigo and 
iron buff. The worker will discover many 
interesting combinations as soon as the 
work begins to progress. 
By the method of floating in acid dyes 
on silk, any number of colors may be pro¬ 
duced in one design. This is a practical 
method for making patterns on lamp¬ 
shades, scarfs and gowns. The chiffon scarf 
in the illustration is made by this method, 
and it has five colors — orange, red, blue, 
green and black. Begin this process by 
transferring the design on white or raw 
silk. Take a piece of rather thick window 
glass — 14 by 20 is a convenient size—and 
rub slightly over the surface with a piece 
of hard soap. The soap will prevent the 
resist from sticking to the glass. Now lay 
the silk down on the glass and cover all 
the line of the design with the wax lime. 
If a stencil is used, its outline may be fol¬ 
lowed bv keeping the tube of the tjanting 
close to the edges of the cuts. Do not fill 
up any portion of the design except, the 
outline. Each design should be outlined 
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