Slate on Woollen
From 600 miscellaneous valuable receipts, worth their weight in gold (1860).
Source and licence
From 600 miscellaneous valuable receipts, worth their weight in gold (1860), printed page 195, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/600miscellaneous00marq
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Ingredients
- 10 pounds of woollen goods
- 10 pounds sumach
- 4 pounds copperas
Method
- For 10 pounds of woollen goods, take 10 pounds sumach, boil it up 10 minutes, cool down, put in your goods, bring them to a boil a few minutes, take out ;
- put in 4 pounds copperas, dissolve, cool down ;
- fe-enter the goods, bring them to a boil, take out, wash, and finish.
- A quantity of iron-liquor, such as the calico-printers use, would be preferable to copperas.
- This slate may be varied by varying the proportion of copperas and sumach ;
- also, by adding a little peachwood, or any other red wood ;
- in this case, less copperas might be used.