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Uvanterin Brown
Dye a spirit 2 pounds sumach, add a wine-glassful of yellow (see No. 141), then work for 20 vitriol, and steep the goods in it for 6 hours; minutes in a decoction of 1 pound limawood wring out and work for an hour in red spirit and 1 pound fustic; lift, and add pint red (see No. 108), diluted to 2º Baumé; wring liquor (see No. 100); work 10 minutes in this; out and wash, then pass through a tub of vash and dry. warm water; put 10 pounds barwood into a