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Wine Color

Work for an hour in a bath with 4 pounds cudbear, and dry. For a darker shade use more cudbear. If the tint boil for 1 hour; take it out, cool, and let it lay for 24 hours. Then boil out 20 pounds good logwood for hour in fresh water; cool off the kettle to 150° Fahr., enter the wool, and handle it well for an hour, then heat it up to 185° Fahr., but do not let it boil; let it go for 1 hour more, when it will be a dark purple. This color stands the sun remarkably well, perhaps owing to the fact that there is not any alum or sulphuric acid used, except that contained in the blue vitriol.