Chrome Black--Best in Use:: For five pounds of goods, blue vitriol
six ounces; boil a few minutes, then dip the goods three-fourths of an
hour, airing often; take out the goods, make a dye with three pounds
of log-wood, boil one-half hour; dip three-fourths of an hour, air
goods, and dip three-fourths of an hour more. Wash in strong suds.
This will not fade by exposure to sun.
Wine Color:: For five pounds of goods, camwood two pounds; boil
fifteen minutes and dip the goods one-half hour; boil again and dip
one-half hour then darken with blue vitriol one and one-half ounces;
if not dark enough, add copperas one-half ounce.
Scarlet--Very Fine:: For one pound of goods, cream of tartar
one-half ounce, cochineal, well pulverized, one half ounce, muriate of
tin two and one-half ounces; boil up the dye and enter the goods; work
them briskly for ten or fifteen minutes, then boil one and one-half
hours, stirring goods slowly while boiling. Wash in clear water and
dry in the shade.
Pink:: For three pounds of goods, alum three ounces; boil and dip
the goods one hour, then add to the dye, cream of tartar four ounces,
cochineal, well pulverized, one ounce; boil well and dip the goods
while boiling until the color suits.
Blue--Quick Process:: For two pounds of goods, alum five ounces,
cream of tartar three ounces; boil goods in this one hour, then put
them into warm water which has more or less extract of indigo in it,
according to the depth of color desired, and boil again until it
suits, adding more of the blue if needed.
Madder Red:: To each pound of goods, alum five ounces, red or cream
of tartar one ounce. Put in the goods and bring the kettle to a boil
for one-half hour; then air them and boil one-half hour longer; empty
the kettle and fill with clean water; put in bran one peck; make it
milk-warm, and let it stand until the bran rises; then skim off the
bran and put in one-half pound madder; put in the goods and heat
slowly until it boils and is done. Wash in strong suds.
Green:: For each pound of goods, fustic one pound, with alum three
and one-half ounces; steep until strength is out, and soak the goods
therein until a good yellow is obtained, then remove the chips, and
add extract of indigo or chemic, one tablespoonful at a time, until
color suits.
Snuff Brown, Dark:: For five pounds of goods, camwood one pound;
boil it fifteen minutes; then dip the goods three-fourths of an hour;
take them out and add to the dye two and one-half pounds fustic; boil
ten minutes, and dip the goods three-fourths of an hour; then add blue
vitriol one ounce, copperas four ounces; dip again one-half hour. If
not dark enough add more copperas.
Another Method--Any Shade:: Boil the goods in a mordant of alum two
parts, copperas three parts; then rinse them through a bath of madder.
The tint depends on the relative proportions of the copperas and alum;
the more copperas, the darker the dye; joint weight of both should not
be more than one-eighth of weight of goods. Mixtures of reds and
yellows with blues and blacks, or simple dyes, will make any shade.
Orange:: For five pounds of goods, muriate of tin six
tablespoonfuls, argol four ounces; boil and dip one hour and add again
to the dye one teacupful of madder; dip again one-half hour.
Cochineal, about two ounces, in place of madder, makes a much brighter
color.
Purple:: For each pound of goods, two ounces of cudbear; rinse the
goods well in soap-suds, then dissolve cudbear in hot suds--not quite
boiling, and soak the goods until of required color. The color is
brightened by rinsing in alum water.
Yellow--Rich:: Work five pounds of goods one-half hour in a boiling
bath with three ounces bichromate of potassa and two ounces alum; lift
and expose till well cooled and drained; then work one-half hour in
another bath with five pounds of fustic. Wash out and dry.
Crimson:: Work for one hour in a bath with one pound cochineal
paste, six ounces of dry cochineal, one pound of tartar, one pint of
protochloride of tin. Wash out and dry.
Salmon:: For each pound of goods, one-fourth pound of annotto,
one-fourth pound of soap; rinse the goods well in warm water, put them
into mixture and boil one-half hour. Shade will be according to the
amount of annotto.
Dove and Slate Colors of All Shades:: Boil in an iron vessel a
teacupful of black tea with a teaspoonful of copperas and sufficient
water. Dilute till you get the shade wanted.