Yellow for Dyeing Silk
From Consult me, 1902
Serves 1
Presented as published in 1902. 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 Consult me (1902) by Robert Kemp Philp, page 203. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To 1 quart of water, put half a teaspoonful of Pic- ric Acid, and rather more than half a wine glassful of sulphuric acid, and a tea-spoonful of paste extract of indigo ; boil about 5 minutes ; then add water to cool it down to blood heat, or ioo°. Put in the silk, and work it about 20 minutes. The shade may be varied by adding more or less of the Picric Add, DYE 167 OYS or extract of indigo ; if more of cither be added, boil separately in a little water, and add to the previous liquor. Pe2-Green, for Worsted. — Use the same materials as I he aforesaid ; but boil all the time in 1 gallon of water for about so or 30 minutes. tgg" A darker Green may be ob- tained by using a larger quantity of material. Plum Colour, for Worsted, Silk, or Cotton. — Water, 1 gallon ; sulphuric arid, a teaspoonful ; glauber salts, or common Dyer's crystals, two table-spoonfuls ; violet liquor, a table- spoonful ; magenta liquor, % a table- spoonful. Boil the article (silk, wool, or worsted), about 10 minutes. (S~ Cotton should be dyed the above colours separately, and by first running them through weak Gall Liquor, and weak double muriate of tin. /Then wash well, and work in the aforesaid liquor, according to colour and shade. The Jquor should be cold for Cotton. Scarlet on Worsted or Wool. — Water, 3 gallons, a ozs. of dry cochi- neal, 1 oz, of cream of tartar, nitrate of tin, a wine-glassful ; boil the goods 1 hour. To give the goods a yellow hue, add a little young fustic. Wash out as before. Yellow, for Dyeing Silk. — Pro- ceed the same in Dyeing as Pea Green, omitting the extract of indigo, and using oxalic tin instead of sulphuric arid
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