the object in view is simply to dye the hair without tingeing the
skin, the following will be found the best:--Take equal parts of
litharge and lime; mix well, and form into a paste with water, if a
black is desired; with milk if brown. Clean the head with a small
tooth comb, and then well wash the hair with soda and water to free it
from grease; then lay on the paste pretty thick, and cover the head
with oilskin or a cabbage-leaf, after which go to bed. Next morning
the powder should be carefully brushed away, and the hair oiled.

2701. Leather (Black).

Use No. iv. _black stain_ (see par. 1430), and polish with oil.

2702. Gloves (Nankeen).

Steep saffron in boiling-hot soft water for about twelve hours; sew
up the tops of the gloves, to prevent the dye staining the insides,
wet them over with a sponge dipped in the liquid. A teacupful of dye
will do a pair of gloves.

2703. Gloves (Purple).

Boil four ounces of logwood and two ounces of roche alum in three
pints of soft water till half wasted; strain, and let it cool. Sew up
the tops, go over the outsides with a brush or sponge twice; then rub
off the loose dye with a coarse cloth. Beat up the white of an egg,
and rub it over the leather with a sponge. Vinegar will remove the
stain from the hands.

2704. Silk (Black).

The same as for cloth, but black dyeing is difficult.

2705. Silk (Blue).

i. Wash quite clean, rinse well, and then dip in a hot solution of
sulphate of iron: after a short time take it out and rinse again.
Have ready in another vessel a hot solution of prussiate of potash,
to which a small quantity of sulphuric acid has been added. Dip the
silk in this liquid; on removal rinse in clean water, and expose to
the air to dry.

ii. Wash well, rinse, wring out, and then dip in the
following:--Boil a pound of indigo, two pounds of woad, and three
ounces of alum, in a gallon of water. When the silk is of a proper
colour, remove, rinse, and dry.

2706. Silk (Carnation).

Boil two gallons of wheat and an ounce of alum in four gallons of
water; strain through a fine sieve; dissolve half a pound more of alum
and white tartar; add three pounds of madder, then put in the silk at
a moderate heat.

2707. Silk (Crimson).

Take about a spoonful of cudbear, put it into a small pan, pour
boiling water upon it; stir and let it stand a few minutes,