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Light Purple or Adelaide

Steep | wring out and dry. This gives a reddish the goods in a decoction of 2 pounds sumach; tint, which may be avoided by using a solugoods in a decoction of 2 pounds sumach; tint, which may be avoided by using a soluwring out, and work half an hour in plumb tion of 4 ounce of alum instead of the alum spirit (see No. 111); wring out, and wash in plumb. clean cold water until no taste of acid is left on the goods, and dry.

When working with the plumb spirit, it is advisable to put a sufficiency of it into a separate vessel for working the goods, returning the liquor afterwards to the plumb tub.

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