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Silks

pp. 591-592 · The White House Cook Book
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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.

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