90
600
MISCELLANEOUS
VALUABLE
RECEIPTS.
No.
177.
Dove
on
Silk.
Take
Brazil
logwood
and
sumach
;
vary
the
quantities
as
you
want
your
shade;
boil
them
in
water,
then
enter
your
goods,
handle
well,
and
sad-
den
with
green
copperas.
No.
178.
Yelloio
on
Silk.
Boil
quercitron-bark
in
a
copper
pan
for
20
minutes,
any
quantity
yoa
please.
Dip
a
suificient
quantity
to
cover
your
silk
in
another
copper
pan,
or
tinned
vessel,
to
which
add
a small
quantity
of
muriate
of
tin;
pass
your
silks
first
through
warm
water,
and
wring
them
out
;
then
put
them
into
this
pan
of
dye-water,
and
handle
them
with
a
clean
stick
till
cold
;
when
cold,
take
out,
throw
out
your
liquor,
take
from
the
first
pan
as
much
liquor
as
before
handle
in
this
10
minutes,
then
add
muriate
of
tin
according
to
shade
wanted.
Rinse
out
in
its
own
liquor,
and
dry
in
a
warm
room.
Annotto
affords
an
orange
yellow
with
equal
quantities
of
pearlash,
and
gives
out
its
colour
to
silk
in
warm
water.
Turmeric
gives
out
its
colour
in
a
similar
manner.
The
roots
of
barberry
afford
a
yellow
of
themselves
when
boiled
in
water.
No.
179.
Crimson
on
Silk.
Take
cudbear,
boil
it
in
water;
then
just
rinse
or
handle
your
silks
in
it
for
a
few
minutes,
you
have