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Then add 3/4 lb cochineal and 6 oz madder Boil well and wash in soap

(17) BROWN (1 lb)

Mordant with 1 oz Copper sulphate Boil for 1 hour Take out silk and add 2-1/2 oz madder, 1 oz fustic chips, and boil for 1 hour

(18) RED (1 lb)

Dissolve 1 oz Tannic Acid in hot water Enter silk and leave for 24 hours, stirring occasionally Rinse well in taters In a fresh bath, put 4 oz cochineal Enter silk Bring to boil and let blue colour develop Lift, and add 1 oz cochineal & 1 oz tin Re-enter silk & boil well Wash in soap

GLOSSARY

_Adjective Dyes_ Dyes which requireprinciple of madder It is also the name for an extensive series of chemical colours produced from anthracene, one of the coal tar hydrocarbons discovered in 1868

_Aniline_ Discovered 1826 (_anil Span indigo_) First prepared froo by means of caustic potash, found in coal, 1834 Manufactured on a large scale after Perkin's discovery of mauve in 1856

_Annatta_ (Annotto, Arnotto, Roucou) A dye obtained fro the seeds of the _Bixa orellana_; chiefly used in dyeing silk an orange colour, but is of a fugitive nature

_Argol_ The tartar deposited fro to the sides of casks as a hard crust When purified it becoe vessel or tub used in dyeing

_Bois jaune_ Fustic, yelloood

_Carthamus_ Safflower, an annual plant cultivated in South Europe, Egypt and Asia, for the red dye from its flowers

_Caustic Soda_ Carbonate of soda, boiled with lime

_Coal Tar Colours_ Colours obtained by distillation and che the as

There are over 2,000 colours in use

_Detergent_ A cleansing agent

_Dip_ Generally applied to i cloth, etc, in the blue vat

_Divi-Divi_ The dried pods of _Caesalpina coriaria_ growing in the West Indies and S A matter

_Dyer's Spirit_ Aqua fortis, 10 parts; sal aether

_Enter_ To enter wool, to put it into the dye or onnella faenugraecu matter extracted from Quercitron

_Full, to_ To treat or beat cloth for the purpose of cleansing and thickening it

_Fuller's herb_ _Saponaria officinalis_ A plant used in the process of fulling