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Black for Worsted or Woolen

Dissolve : ounce bichromate of potash in 3 galof potash in 3 gallong water. Boil the goods in this 40 minutes ; then wash in cold water. Then take 3 galin cold water. Then take 3 gallons water, add 9 ounces logwood, 3 ounces fustic, and one or two drops , D. O. V., or Double Oil of Vitriol; boil the goods 40 min- quor, and then through diluted muriate of tin. (See No. 113.) ; boil the goods 40 minquor, and then through diluted muriate of utes, and wash out in cold water. This will tin. (See No. 113.) 313. Salmon Color for Silk may be obtained by first passing through the above liabove li- 314. Magenta for Silk, Wool or Worsdye from 1 to 2 pounds of cloth, or a lady's dress, if of a dark color , as brown, claret, &c . ted. Water, 1 gallon, heated up to 180 de- All colored dresses with cotton warps should grees; and magenta liquor, 1 tablespoonful; be previously steeped 1 hour in sumach li- stir it well up. This will dye a broad ribbon 4 yards long, or a pair of small stockings. qucr; and then soaked for 30 minutes in 3 gallons of clean water, with 1 cupful of ni- To dye a larger quantity of material, add trate of iron (see No. 116); then it must be well washed, and dyed as first stated. more magenta liquor and water. The shade of color may be easily regulated by using more or less. Magenta Pink may be cbtained by increased dilution. 315. Mauve for Silk, Wool or Worsted. Water, 1 gallon; add 1 table-spoonful sulphuric acid; then heat to boiling point.

For a very light mauve, add 1 tea-spoonful imperial violet liquor; boil the same amount of