Ransom's family receipt book, 1885

MADDER RED. — To each pound of goods, alum, five ounces; red, or i wi cream-tartar, one ounce. Put in goods and bring kettle to a boil, for one-half hour, then air them and boil one-half hour longer • empty kettle and Ml with clean water ; put in bran, one peck : make it milk- warm, .and let it stand until br<an rises, then skim off the bran and put in one-half pound madder; put in goods and heat slowly until it boils and is done. Wash in strong suds. GREEN. — For each pound of goods, fustic, one pound ; with alum, three and one-half ounces ; steep until strength is out, and soak goods there¬ in until a good yellow is obtained ; then remove the chips and add extract of indigo or chemic, one tablespoon at a time, until color suits. SNUFF BROWN, DARK. — For five pounds goods, camwood, one pound ; boil it fifteen minutes, then dip goods three-fourths hour ; take out goods, and add to the dye two and one-half pounds fustic ; boil ten minutes and dip goods three-fourths hour ; then add blue vitriol, one ounce ; copperas, four ounces ; dip again one-half hour. If not dark enough, add more copperas. Another Method-— Any Shade. — Boil goods in a mordant of alum, two parts ; copperas, three parts ; then rinse them through a bath of madder. The tint depends on the relative proportions of the copperas and alum ; the more copperas, ;ihe darker the dye. Joint weight of both should not be more than one-eighth of weight of goods. Mixtures of reds and yellows with blues and blacks, or simple dyes, will make any shade. ORANGE. — For five pounds goods, muriate of tin, six tablespoons ; argal, four ounces ; boil and dip one hour, and add again to the dye one tea¬ cup madder ; dip again one-half hour. Cochineal, about two ounces, in place of maader, makes a much brighter color. (SI) Blood-color, to keep good and healthy, see page so. Dyeing V/ooien Goods , Continued , PURPLE. — For each pound goods, two ounces cudbear ; rinse goods well in soap suds then dissolve cudbear in hot suds— not quite boiling — and soak the goods until of required color. The color is brightened by rinsing in alum water. YELLOW. —RICH. —Work live pounds goods one-half hour in a boiling bath with three ounces bichromate of potasSa and two ounces alum ; lift and expose till well cooled and drained, then work one-half hour ia an¬ other bath with five pounds fustic. Wash out and dry, CRIMSON. — Work for one hour in a bath with one pound cochineal paste ; six ounces dry cochineal ; one pound tartar ; one pint protochlonde of tin. Wash out and dry. . SALMON. — For each pound goods, one-fourth pound annotto ,- oncfourth pound soap ; rinse goods in warm water, put them into mixture and boil one-half hour. Shade will be according to amount of annotto. DOVE AND SLATE COLORS OF ALL SHADES.— Boil in iron vessels a teacup of black tea with a teaspoon of copperas, and sufficient water. Dilute till you, get the shade wanted. COTTON GOODS.