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Crimson for Worsted or Wool

Water, 3 gallons; paste cochincal, 1 ounce; cream of tartar, 1 ounce; nitrate of tin (see No. 113), a wine-glassful. Boil your goods in this 1 hour. Wash first in cold water, then in another vessel with 3 gallons warm water with a cupful of ammonia, the whole well mixed. Put in the goods and work well 15 minutes. For a bluer shade add more ammohia. Then wash out.

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