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Light Violet

Work for an hour in which time let it boil for 3/4 hour, when it is in a bath with 4 ounces cudbear, 4 ounces ready to cool, rinse, and dry. By coloring logwood, 2 ounces barwood or camwood, and first with cochineal, as above, and finishing 2 ounces peachwood; lift, and add 2 ounces in the blue vat, the fast purple, or dahlia, SO ounces in the blue vat, the fast purple, or dahlia, so alum in solution, work for 30 minutes and much admired in German broadcloths, will be produced. dry.

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