Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Fustic Green on Cloth

Work the goods in red liquor (see No. 100) diluted red liquor (see No. 100) or 2 ounces alum, to 4º Baumé, and dry in a hot chamber ; then may be added to the logwood after lifting, inwet in hot water and work for 20 minutes in stead of the red spirit. a decoction of 3 pounds fustic; lift, and add ounces alum in solution; work again for 15 minutes; wring out and work in chemic (a solution of sulphate of indigo whose acid has been neutralized with carbonate of soda); wring out and dry.

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