then put
in the silk, and turn it over in a short time, and when the colour is
full enough, take it out; but if it should require more violet or
crimson, add a spoonful or two of purple archil to some warm water;
steep, and dry it within doors. It must be mangled, and ought to be
pressed.

2708. Silk (Lilac).

For every pound of silk, take one and a half pounds of archil, mix it
well with the liquor; make it boil for a quarter of an hour, dip the
silk quickly, then let it cool, and wash it in river water, and a fine
half violet, or lilac, more or less full, will be obtained.

2709. Silk (Madder Red).

Use the dye for cloth.

2710. Silk (Yellow).

Take clear wheat bran liquor fifteen pounds, in which dissolve three
quarters of a pound of alum; boil the silk in this for two hours, and
afterwards take half a pound of weld, and boil it till the colour is
good. Nitre used with alum and water in the first boiling fixes the
colour.

2711. Wool (Blue).

Boil in a decoction of logwood and sulphate or acetate of copper.

2712. Wool (Brown).

Steep in an infusion of green walnut-peels.

2713. Wool (Drab).

Impregnate with brown oxide of iron, and then dip in a bath of
quercitron bark. It sumach is added, it will make the colour a dark
brown.

[NO LOCK WILL HOLD GAINST KEYS OF GOLD.]

2714. Wool (Green).

First imbue with the blue, then with the yellow dye.

2715. Wool (Orange).

Dye first with the red dye for cloth, and then with a yellow.

2716. Wool (Red).

Take four and a half pounds of cream of tartar, four and a quarter
pounds of alum; boil the wool gently for two hours; let it cool, and
wash it on the following day in pure water.

Infuse twelve pounds of madder for half an hour with a pound of
chloride of tin, in lukewarm water; filter through canvas, remove the
dye from the canvas, and put it in the bath, which is to be heated to
100 deg. Fahr.; add two ounces of aluminous mordant, put the wool in, and
raise to boiling heat.

Remove the wool, wash, and soak for a quarter of an hour in a solution
of white soap in water.

2717. Wool (Yellow).

Dye with that used for calico, &c.

2718. Dyeing Bonnets.

Chip and straw bonnets or hats may be dyed black by boiling them three
or four hours in a strong liquor of logwood, adding a little green
copperas occasionally. Let th