To prove the colours of dyea stuffs
From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829).
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From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829), printed page 91, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101091388.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
- an ounce oi alum
- a pint of water
- an ounce of the stuff
- an ounce of soap
- an ounce of tartar
Method
- For crimson, scarlet, flesh-colour, violet, peach blossom, all shades of blue, and other colours bordering on these, dissolve half an ounce oi alum in a pint of water, in an earthen vessel, and into this put the eighth of an ounce of the stuff or thread that is to be proved;
- boil the whole for five minutes, and wash it out in clean water.
- For all sorts of yellow, green, madder, red, cin- Jifimon, and similar colours, bc'l a ouarter of an ounce of soap in a pint of water, put in the eighth of an ounce of U>e stuff to be tried, and boil" for five minutes.
- For hair brown, &c.
- powder an ounce of tartar, and boil it in a pint of water, and boil a quarter of an ounce of the stuff or thread in the solution for five minutes.