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Green-wash.
Take four pounds of blue vitriol, pound it fine, and mix with it three pounds of
best whiting, and half a pound of potash; pour on them six quarts of boiling
water, and mix in half a pound of glue dissolved in water. Wash the walls with
whiting before it is put on.
Chrome Yellow for Dyeing Carpet Rags.
Dissolve the chrome in warm water in an earthen vessel; dip the rags in vinegar
and water, then in the chrome dye, and hang in the sun to dry. This color will
stand for years in a rag carpet, and is very little trouble. Six cents worth of
chrome will dye several pounds.
To Dye a Dark Drab.
For ten pounds of cotton or wool, have half a bushel of maple bark, the same of
sumach berries, and a peck of walnut hulls or bark; put a layer of this in an
iron pot, and a layer of the wool, till all is in; cover it with water, and boil
it slowly for three hours, keeping the pot filled with water; then hang it out,
and when dry, wash one skein, and if it is not dark enough, strain the dye, and
put in a tea-cup of copperas; put in the yarn, and let it scald a few minutes;
take it out, dry it, and wash it well with soft soap and water.
To Dye Cotton or Woollen Black.
To each pound of yarn, have one ounce of copperas, nine of logwood, a handful of
salt, and a quart of good vinegar, which boil with copperas ten minutes in a
brass kettle; shave the logwood, and boil it in an iron pot; when the color is
extracted, strain it into the vinegar; put in the yarn, and let it simmer twenty
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