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when stir it up; thin it with milk as you use it, and put half a pint of salt to
each bucket full. This makes a durable wash for a rough-cast or frame house, or
for fences; the salt prevents it from peeling off.
Chrome Yellow-wash.
Mix four pounds of whiting with as much water as will go over the room; dissolve
a tea-cupful of glue, and put in; then wash the walls with this to prevent the
lime from affecting the chrome; if they come in contact, the walls will be
striped, and will not look at all well. Mix a wash of whiting, water and glue,
and color it with two pounds of chrome yellow. After walls have been yellow, and
you want to have them white, they must be washed over with whiting and glue, and
then white-washed in the usual way.
Yellow Ochre-wash.
Dissolve a pound of glue in hot water, and stir into it three pounds of yellow
ochre, and one of whiting; mix it well, and thin it with water or skim milk. It
is a suitable wash for a common room or kitchen.
Lamp-black mixed with molasses, and put in whitewash, makes a good color for a
kitchen.
To Dye Orange Color.
For five pounds of woolen yarn, have one pound of annotta; dissolve it in
boiling water, and put it in a pot of soft water with half a pound of pearl-ash;
boil them ten minutes, stirring it well; wet the yarn in soap-suds; put it in,
and let it boil twenty minutes; then hang it in the sun, and when dry, if it is
not deep enough, dip it in again; and after it is thoroughly dry, wash it in
soap and water.
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