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Blue and Orange

First dye the cotton by the blue vat (see No. 130), wash out, and then dye the woolen by working an hour in a bath made up of 2 pounds tartar, 8 ounces cochineal, 2 pounds fustic, and 2 pints bichloride of tin; wash and dry.

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