A pound of wool woven into common merino measures about 3 yards, common moreen about 2 yards.

1. Jet Black

For 50 lbs. Prepare with 2 1/4 lbs. chrome, boil half an hour, and wash in two waters. Dye with 20 lbs. logwood and 2 lbs. fustic. Boil half an hour, in one water, then rinse in a slight sour, moderately warm, wash in one cold water, and finish out of a warm one, softened with a little urine.

2. Fast Black

For 50 lbs. Prepare with 2 lbs. chrome, 1 lb. tartar, and 1 quart muriate of tin; boil 1 hour and wash in 2 waters. Dye with 25 lbs. logwood and 3 lbs. fustic. Boil 30 minutes, lift, add 1 pt. vitriol. Return for 10 minutes, then wash and dry. To render this blue-black, omit the fustic.

3. French Brown

For 50 lbs. Preparation: 1 1/2 lbs. chrome. Dyeing, 6 lbs. cudbear, 1 lb. tartar; and if not dark enough, add 8 oz. logwood. Boil half an hour.

4. Claret

For 50 lbs. Preparation: 1 1/2 lbs. chrome. Dyeing, 9 lbs. lima wood, 2 lbs. logwood, 1/2 lb. tartar. Boil half an hour.

5. Purple

For 50 lbs. Wash in a preparation of l 1/2 lbs. tartar, and 1 lb. alum; wash in 3 waters. Dye with 10 lbs. logwood, boil half an hour, raise with 1 quart muriate of tin.

6. Pale Blue

For 50 lbs. 1 gill sulphuric acid, 3 oz. extract of indigo, 1 lb. alum. Enter cold with one-half of the extract, give the other half when the boiler warms.

7. Pea Green

For 54 lbs. 2 lbs. extract of indigo, 7 lbs. fustic, 1 lb. alum. Bring on from the cold, when the boiler heats to 180° Fahrenheit, put in the fustic, boil 15 minutes.

8. Olive Green

For 50 lbs. Prepare with 1 1/2 lbs. chrome; boil half an hour, and wash in 2 waters; then boil 12 lbs. fustic and 2 1/2 lbs. logwood for 1 hour; add 2 lbs. madder and 2 lbs. redwood. Enter; boil half an hour. Raise in the same liquor with 4 oz. blue-stone; wash well and dry.

9. Drab

For 50 lbs. 7 lbs. fustic, 8 oz. madder, 4 oz. cudbear, 2 lbs. alum, 8 oz. tartar. Enter between the cold and 160° Fahrenheit; after heating up, boil from 10 to 30 minutes; wash in 2 waters. All dark shades of this and the following color may be slightly prepared with chrome; wash in 2 waters.

10. Slate

For 50 lbs. 1 lb. logwood, 4 oz. fustic, 8 oz. extract of indigo, 2 lbs. tartar, 2 lbs. alum. Work as for drab.

11. Yellow

For 40 lbs. 2 1/2 lbs. quercitron bark, 2 lbs. tartar, 2 quarts muriate of tin. Enter at 150° Fahrenheit; boil 30 minutes.

12. Amber

For 40 lbs. Boil 4 lbs. quercitron bark and 8 oz. madder. Add 2 quarts muriate of tin, 1 lb. tartar. Enter at 200° Fahrenheit; boil 30 minutes.

13. Orange

For 50 lbs. Boil 10 lbs. quercitron bark and 1 1/2 lb. cochineal. Add 2 lbs. tartar, 2 1/2 quarts yellow spirits. Enter at 200° Fahrenheit; boil 30 minutes.

14. Rose Color

For 40 lbs. 1 lb. cochineal, 3 gills double muriate of tin, 1 lb. tartaric acid. Enter at 100° Fahrenheit, heat up; boil 15 minutes; lift, and cool to 120° oy throwing out part of the liquor, and filling up with water; add 1 gill ammonia paste, 12 oz. tartaric acid, 6 oz. oxalic acid. Bring up to boiling; when the desired shade is reached, wash well and dry.

15 Scarlet With Cochineal

For 50 lbs. Boil 4 lbs. cochineal and 1 3/4 lb. quercitron bark. Add 3 lbs. tartar, 2 qts. scarlet spirits. Enter at 200° Fahrenheit; boil 1 one hour; wash well. Sour before dyeing, either cold or warm; wash in 1 water and take out.