Snuff Brown for Cloth or Wool
From The housekeeper's companion, 1883
It is dark and permanent.
Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 154. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
For five pounds of goods, blue vitriol, six ounces; boil it a few minutes; then dip the goods three-quarters of an hour, airing often; take out the goods, and make a dye,with logwood, three pounds; boil one- half hour; dip three-quarters of an hour, and air the goods, and dip three-quarters of an hour more. Wash in strong suds. This will not impart any of its color in fulling, nor fade by exposure to the sun. Black on Wool. — For Mixtures. — For ten pound of wool, bichromate of potash, four ounces; ground argal, three ounces; boil together, and put in wool; stir well, and let it remain in the dye four hours. Then take out the wool, rinse it slightly in clear water; then make a new dye, into which put logwood, three and one-half pounds. Boil one hour, and add chamber lye, one pint, .and let the wool He in all night. Wash ir^ cleaji water. HOUSEHOLD. 223 Snuff Brown. — Dark, for Cloth or Wool. — For five pounds of goods, camwood, one pound; boil it fifteen minutes, then dip the goods for three-quarters of an hour; take out the goods, and add to the dye, fustic, two and one-half pounds; boil ten minutes, and dip the goods three-quarters of an hour; then add blue vitriol, one ounce; copperas, four ounces
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