Family Dyeing Receipts. Part 2

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This section is from the "Encyclopedia Of Practical Receipts And Processes" book, by William B. Dick. Also available from Amazon: Dick's encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes.

Family Dyeing Receipts. Part 2

310. Fawn Drab for Silk

310. Fawn Drab for Silk. Hot water, 1 gallon; annotto liquor (see No. 95 (To prepare Annotto)), 1 wine-glassful; 2 ounces each of sumach and fustic. Add copperas liquor according to the required shade. Wash out. It is best to use the copperas liquor in another vessel, diluted according to the shade desired.

311. Dark Drab for Silk

311. Dark Drab for Silk may be obtained by using a little archil and extract of indigo.

312. Flesh Color for Dyeing Silk

312. Flesh Color for Dyeing Silk. Boiling water, 1 gallon; put in 1 ounce white soap, and 1 ounce pearlash. Mix well, then add a cupful of annotto liquor. (See No. 95 (To prepare Annotto).) Put the silk through several times, and proportion the liquor till you obtain the required shade.

313. Salmon Color for Silk

313. Salmon Color for Silk may be obtained by first passing through the above liquor, and then through diluted muriate of tin. (See No. 113 (Tin Spirits).)

314. Magenta for Silk, Wool or Worsted

314. Magenta for Silk, Wool or Worsted. Water, 1 gallon, heated up to 180 degrees ; and magenta liquor, 1 tablespoonful; stir it well up. This will dye a broad ribbon 4 yards long, or a pair of small stockings. To dye a larger quantity of material, add more magenta liquor and water. The shade of color may be easily regulated by using more or less. Magenta Pink may be obtained by increased dilution.

315. Mauve for Silk, Wool or Worsted

315. Mauve for Silk, Wool or Worsted. Water, 1 gallon; add 1 table-spoonful sulphuric acid; then heat to boiling point. For a very light mauve, add 1 tea-spoonful imperial violet liquor; boil the same amount of material, as stated under Magenta, about 10 minutes. Rinse in cold water. If the color be too deep, use a little soap in rinsing, using warm water.

316. Violet Color for Worsted

316. Violet Color for Worsted may be produced by using a table-spoonful of violet liquor instead of a tea-spoonful.

317. Pea Green for Silk

317. Pea Green for Silk. To 1 quart water, put 1/2 tea-spoonful picric acid, and rather more than 1/2 wine-glassful sulphuric acid, and a tea-spoonful paste extract of indigo; boil about 5 minutes, then add water to cool it down to blood heat, or 100° Fahr. Put in the silk, and work it about 20 minutes. The shade may be varied by adding more or less of the picric acid, or extract of indigo; if more of either be added, boil separately in a little water, and add to the previous liquor.