Black Dye

Ingredients

• five pounds of goods
• three pounds of sumach
• two and one-half pounds log-wood
• bichromate potash two ounces

Method

1. 1

   Boil the goods in sumach for half an hour and steep for twelve hours.

2. 2

   Dip in lime-water for half an hour, then dip in log-wood dye for three hours.

3. 3

   Add bichromate potash and dip for one hour.

4. 4

   Wash in clear, cold water and dry in the shade.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 376. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

five pounds of goods, camwood one pound; boil it fifteen minutes ; then dip the goods three-fourths of an hour; take them out and add to the dye two and one-half pounds fustic; boil ten minutes, and dip the goods three-fourths of an 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 the goods in a mordant of alum two parts, copperas three parts; then rinse them through a bath of madder. The tint depends upon the relative proportions of the copperas and alum ; 666 MISCELLANEO US. the more copperas, the 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 of goods, muriate of tin six tablespoonfuls, argol four ounces ; boil and dip one hour and add again to the dye one tea- cupful of madder ; dip again one-half hour. Cochineal, about two ounces, in place of madder, makes a much brighter color. Purple: — For each pound of goods, two ounces of cudbear; rinse the 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 five pounds of 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 in another bath with five pounds of fustic. Wash out and dry. Crimson: — Work for one hour in a bath with one pound cochineal paste, six ounces of dry cochineal, one pound of tartar, one pint of protochloride of tin. Wash out and dry. Salmon: — For each pound of goods, one-fourth pound of annotto, one- fourth pound of soap ; rinse the goods well in warm water, put them into mixture and boil one-half hour. Shade will be according to the amount of annotto. Dove and Slate Colors of All Shades: — Boil in an iron vessel a teacup- ful of black tea with a teaspoonful of copperas and sufficient water. Dilute till you get the shade wanted. COTTON GOODS. Black: — For five pounds of goods, boil them in a decoction of three pounds of sumach one-half hour and steep twelve hours ; dip in lime-water one-half hour ; take out and let them drip one hour, run them through the lime-water again fifteen minutes. Make a new dye with two and one-half pounds log-wood (boiled one hour) and dip again three hours ; add bichro- mate potash two ounc

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