The laboratory, or school of arts ... / Compiled from German, and other foreign authors. Illustrated with copper-plates. By G. Smith.

  • Smith, Godfrey, active 18th century
Date:
1755
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Credit: The laboratory, or school of arts ... / Compiled from German, and other foreign authors. Illustrated with copper-plates. By G. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    & the (ilk for three or four hours, then wring it out, rince, beat and dry it* Another Orange Colour• SOAK the white filk in allum water like as you do in dying of yellow: then take two ounces of orleans-yellow, put it over night in water, together with one ounce of pot-afhes: boil it up, add to it, after it has boil’d half an hour* one ounce of powdered curcumi, ftir it with a flick, and after a little while put your allum’d filk into it for two or three hours, according to what height you would have your colour; then rince it out in clear foap-fuds, till it looks clear, afterwards clear it in fair water, and drefs it according to art, A fine Brlmfione Yellow for Worfted* TAKE three pound of allum, one pound of tartar, ani three ounces of fait; boil the cloth with thefe mate¬ rials for one hour; then pour off that water, and pour frefh into the kettle, make a lee of fhart and pot afhes. Jet it boil Well, and then turn the cloth twice or thrice quickly through upon the winch, and it will have a fine brim ft one colour. A Lemon Colour. TAKE three pounds of allum, three ounces of cerufe, three ounces of arfenic, with thefe ingredients boil the cloth for an hour and an half; then pour off that water and make a lee of 16 pounds of yellow flowers, three ounces of cur¬ cumi ; then draw or winch your cloth through quickly, and you will have it of a fine lemon-colour. To dye an Olive Colour, TO dye this colour obferve the firft directions for dying a brimftone colour; then make a lee of gall-nuts and vitriol, but not too ftrong; draw your fluff quickly through, three or four times, according as you would have it, either deeper or lighter.
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