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 flrst 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 564 misc£:llan'£jo vs. 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 home-made 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: — Pox 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 of 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. Brown on Silk or Cotton — Very Beautiful: — After obtaining a blue color as above, run goods through a solution of prussiate of potash one once, to water one gallon. Light Blue: — For cold water one gallon, dissolve alum one-half table- spoonful, in hot water one teacupful, and add to it ; then add chemic, one < teaspoonful at a time to obtain the desired color — the more chemic the darker the color. WOOLEN GOODS. Chrome Black — Best in Use: — For five pounds of goods, blue vitriol six ounces ; boil a few minutes, then dip the goods three-fourths of an hour, airing often ; take out the goods, make a dye with three pounds of log- wood, boil one-half hour ; dip three-fourths of an hour, air goods, and dip three-fourths of an hour more. Wash in strong suds. This will not fade by exposure to sun. Wine Color: — For five pounds of goods, camwood two pounds; boil fifteen minutes and dip the goods one-half hour; boil again and dip MISCELLANEO US. 565 one-half hour ; then darken with blue vitriol one and one-half ounces ; if not dark enough, add copperas one-half ounce.

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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 flrst 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 miscellaneous. 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 home-made 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 of 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. Brown on Silk or Cotton — Very Beautiful: — After obtaining a blue color as above, run goods through a solution of prussiate of potash one once, to water one gallon. Light Blue: — For cold water one gallon, dissolve alum one-half tablespoonful, in hot water one teacupful, and add to it ; then add chemic, one teaspoonful at a time to obtain the desired color — the more chemic the darker the color. WOOLEN GOODS. Chrome Black — Best in Use: — For five pounds of goods, blue vitriol six ounces ; boil a few minutes, then dip the goods three-fourths of an hour, airing often ; take out the goods, make a dye with three pounds of logwood, boil one-half hour ; dip three-fourths of an hour, air goods, and dip three-fourths of an hour more. Wash in strong suds. This will not fade by exposure to sun. Wine Color: — For five pounds of goods, camwood two pounds; boil fifteen minutes and dip the goods one-half hour; boil again and dip one-half hour ; then darken with blue vitriol one and one-half ounces ; if not dark enough, add copperas one-half ounce.

Original White House Cookbook