Part 6 (2/2)

A dead black is got by adding 5 per cent Fustic to the dye bath

A green black by adding3 to 4 per cent Alureener shade can be obtained

A violet black is produced by adding 2 per cent Stannous Chloride to the dye bath and continue boiling for 20 minutes

(2) LAVENDER

Mordant with 3 per cent bi+chromate of Potash for 45 minutes and wash

Dye with 2 per cent wood Enter the wool, raise to the boil and boil for 45 wood to ive various shades of claret to purple

(3) A FAST LOGWOOD BLUE

(Highland recipe) Mordant with 3 per cent bi+chromate of Potash and boil wool in it for 1-1/2 hours Wash and dry wool Make a bath of 15 to 20 per cent logith about 3 per cent chalk added to it Boil the wool for 1 hour, wash and dry The wool can be greened by steeping it all night in a hot solution of heather till the desired tint is obtained

(4) RAVEN GREY FOR WOOL

Mordant with 25 per cent Alu heat; then take it out, add to the sa heat for 1/2 hour Then wash In another copper, boil 50 per cent logwood chips for 20 minutes Put the wool into this for 1/2 hour; then return it into the alum and copperas for 10 to 15 minutes

Wash well

(5) DARK RED PURPLE WITH LOGWOOD

(2-1/2 lbs) Mordant with 25 per cent alum and 1 per cent crea out and put away for 4 to 5 days

Dye with 60 per cent logwood and 25 per cent wood and h a sieve into the dye bath Enter the ar to the boil Boil frohly in soft water

(6) PURPLE

(For 1 lb) Mordant ith 1/4 lb alu out and put away in a bag for sowood for 1 hour

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote E: If the Extract is used alone, a mordant is not essential]

CHAPTER VI

RED

KERMES COCHINEAL MADDER

_KERMES_

Kerot the ”Scarlet of Grain” of the old dyers, is one of the old insect dyes It is considered byhter than eneral use in Europe The reds of the Gothic tapestries were dyed with it, and are very permanent, much more so than the reds of later tapestries, which were dyed with cochineal Bancroft says ”The Kerh less vivid, is more durable than that of cochineal The fine blood-red seen at this time on old tapestries in different parts of Europe, unfaded, though many of them are two or three hundred years old, were all dyed from Kermes, with the aluminous basis, on woollen yarn”