Black:: Make a weak lye as for black or woolens; work goods in
bichromate of potash a little below boiling heat, then dip in the
log-wood in the same way; if colored in blue vitriol dye, use about
the same heat.
Orange:: For one pound goods, annotto one pound, soda one pound;
repeat as desired.
Green--Very Handsome:: For one pound goods, yellow oak bark eight
ounces; boil one-half hour; turn off the liquor from bark and add alum
six ounces; let it stand until cold; while making this, color goods
in blue dye-tub a light blue, dry and wash, dip in alum and bark dye.
If it does not take well, warm the dye a little.
Purple:: For one pound goods. First obtain a light blue, by dipping
in home-made dye-tub; then dry; dip in alum four ounces, with water to
cover, when little warm. If color is not full enough add chemic.
Yellow:: For one pound goods, alum three ounces, sugar of lead
three-fourths ounce; immerse goods in solution over night; take out,
drain, and make a new lye with fustic one pound; dip until the
required color is obtained.
Crimson:: For one pound goods, alum three ounces; dip at hand heat
one hour; take out and drain while making new dye by boiling ten
minutes, cochineal three ounces, bruised nutgalls two ounces and cream
of tartar one-fourth ounce, in one pail of water; when little cool,
begin to dip, raising heat to boil; dip one hour; wash and dry.
Sky Blue on Silk or Cotton--Very Beautiful:: Give goods as much
color from a solution of blue vitriol two ounces, to water one gallon,
as it will take up in dipping fifteen minutes; then run it through
lime water. This will make a beautiful and durable sky blue.
Brown on Silk or Cotton--Very Beautiful:: After obtaining a blue
color as above, run goods through a solution of prussiate of potash
one ounce, to water one gallon.
Light Blue:: For cold water one gallon, dissolve alum one-half
tablespoonful, in hot water one teacupful, and add to it; then add
chemic, one teaspoonful at a time to obtain the desired color--the
more chemic the darker the color.