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Gold and Straw
To warm water containing white soap, add 2 pints annotto liquor (see No. 95), work in this 15 minutes; wash out, then work for 20 minutes in a decoction of 8 ounces bark; lift, and add 1 in a bath with 4 ounces of the ferrocyanide. fluid ounce red spirits (see No. 108); work If the color is required to be deeper, repeat 10 minutes more, wash out and finish. Difthis through the same stuff, adding 2 ounces ferent quantities of annotto and bark produce more ferrocyanide; then wash out in cold wa- different shades. ter, and dry.