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To Dye Scarlet.
Take one pound of blood root, and one pound of madder, boil them in six gallons
of ley, then stir them three or four times in twenty-four hours, till there are
signs of fermentation. This dyes ten pounds of cotton or linen.
To Dye Yarn Green.
Take one ounce of best Spanish indigo, finely powdered, and half a pound of oil
of vitriol; put them in a bottle, and let them stand in the sun a week; shake it
often, but do not cork it tight, lest it should burst the bottle; take four
pounds of black-oak bark, and the same of hickory, shave them fine, and soak
them till wet through; then boil them in ten gallons of water till all the color
is extracted; when take out the chips, put in a pound of alum; shake the bottle
of indigo and vitriol, and pour it in; let them boil together a few minutes, and
put in the yarn; turn it over several times, and let it boil half an hour; then
spread it out in the sun for about an hour, and wash it well in strong soap-suds
through two waters, to keep it from becoming tender. This will color ten pounds
of yarn.
You may have a fine blue color by omitting the bark. It will not answer for any
thing but wool or silk, as the vitriol will destroy linen or cotton.
To Dye Cotton Blue.
Boil a pound of chipped logwood in water enough to cover the cotton; take out
half a gallon, and dissolve in it an ounce of verdigris, and one of alum; boil
the yarn in the logwood water an hour, stirring it, and keeping it loose; then
take it out, and mix in the verdigris; put back the yarn, and let it boil four
hours;
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