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Dyeing or Coloring.
GENERAL REMARKS.
Everything should be clean. The goods should be scoured in soap and the soap
rinsed out. They are often steeped in soap lye over night. Dip them into water
just before putting them into preparations, to prevent spotting. Soft water
should be used, sufficient to cover the goods well; this is always understood
where quantity is not mentioned. When goods are dyed, air them; then rinse well,
and hang up to dry. Do not wring silk or merino dresses when scouring or dyeing
them. If cotton goods are to be dyed a light color, they should first be
bleached.
SILKS.
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 logwood 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 homemade
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-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.
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