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a linen bag, and thrown into a veffel of boiling river water* In
which foap has been diflblved, and thus boiled for two or three
hours; the bag being turned feveral times, taken out and beaten,
wafhed out in cold water, wrung out (lightly, and thrown into
a veffel of cold water, mixed with foap and a little indfgo, which
gives it the bluifh caft that is obfervable in white filks.
When taken out of the fccond vefie], it is wrung out, and
all the water and foap prefled from it; after which it is fhook
out to untwifl and feparate the threads, and hung up in the air
in a kind of ftove made on purpofe, in which fulphur is burnt;
the vapour of which gives the lafl degree of whitenefs to the filk.
Bleaching Hair, is done by fpreading the hair to be
bleached upon the srafs, after the fame manner as linen, after
it has been firft wafhcJ out in a lixivious water, which, toge-
ther with the force of the fun and air, brings the hair to fo per-
fect a whitenefs, that the moft experienced perfon may be de-
ceived therein ; there being fcarce any way of detecting the ar-
tifice, but by boiling and drying it; which leaves the hair of
the colour of a dead walnut-tree leaf.—There is alfo a method
of dying hair with bifmuth, which renders white hair, border-
ing too much upon the yellow, of a bright filver colour. This
alfo may be proved by boiling; the bifmuth not being able to
Hand it.
BLINDNESS of mind, is reprefented, in painting, by a lady
cloathed in green, Handing in a meadow full of various flowers,
her head inclined, and a mole by her fide.— The mole is an em-
blem of Blindneis : Her head being inclined towards flowers,
fignifies worldly delights, which allure and bufy the mind to
no purpofe ; for, whatever the flattering world promifes, yet
all is but a clod of earth, veiled under the falfe hopes of plea-
fures; but attended with real dangers all our days.
Michael Le BLON, of Franckfort, ufes this mark;
he died in Amflcrdam, in the year 1650.
To dye a BLOOD Colour. Firft tinge the fluff yellow, with
a quartern and a half of madder to a pound of woollen fluffs;
alum-them and work them till they are of as beautiful a co-
Jour, as you would have them ; then rinfe them well out, and
put'into the kettle a tub of ftale urine, and boil it again, till
they take the dye ; then roll the fluffs three or four times thro'
it, and rinfe them very clean.
To dye filk a Blood Colour. Soak the filk as before directed,
and for each pound of it take half a pound of alum, and a
quarter of a pound of tartar; beat them fmail, and bo'il them
in the quantity of a pailful of prepared liquor for a quarter of
an hour; then put in the filk, and let it iteep for two hours j
then
a linen bag, and thrown into a veffel of boiling river water* In
which foap has been diflblved, and thus boiled for two or three
hours; the bag being turned feveral times, taken out and beaten,
wafhed out in cold water, wrung out (lightly, and thrown into
a veffel of cold water, mixed with foap and a little indfgo, which
gives it the bluifh caft that is obfervable in white filks.
When taken out of the fccond vefie], it is wrung out, and
all the water and foap prefled from it; after which it is fhook
out to untwifl and feparate the threads, and hung up in the air
in a kind of ftove made on purpofe, in which fulphur is burnt;
the vapour of which gives the lafl degree of whitenefs to the filk.
Bleaching Hair, is done by fpreading the hair to be
bleached upon the srafs, after the fame manner as linen, after
it has been firft wafhcJ out in a lixivious water, which, toge-
ther with the force of the fun and air, brings the hair to fo per-
fect a whitenefs, that the moft experienced perfon may be de-
ceived therein ; there being fcarce any way of detecting the ar-
tifice, but by boiling and drying it; which leaves the hair of
the colour of a dead walnut-tree leaf.—There is alfo a method
of dying hair with bifmuth, which renders white hair, border-
ing too much upon the yellow, of a bright filver colour. This
alfo may be proved by boiling; the bifmuth not being able to
Hand it.
BLINDNESS of mind, is reprefented, in painting, by a lady
cloathed in green, Handing in a meadow full of various flowers,
her head inclined, and a mole by her fide.— The mole is an em-
blem of Blindneis : Her head being inclined towards flowers,
fignifies worldly delights, which allure and bufy the mind to
no purpofe ; for, whatever the flattering world promifes, yet
all is but a clod of earth, veiled under the falfe hopes of plea-
fures; but attended with real dangers all our days.
Michael Le BLON, of Franckfort, ufes this mark;
he died in Amflcrdam, in the year 1650.
To dye a BLOOD Colour. Firft tinge the fluff yellow, with
a quartern and a half of madder to a pound of woollen fluffs;
alum-them and work them till they are of as beautiful a co-
Jour, as you would have them ; then rinfe them well out, and
put'into the kettle a tub of ftale urine, and boil it again, till
they take the dye ; then roll the fluffs three or four times thro'
it, and rinfe them very clean.
To dye filk a Blood Colour. Soak the filk as before directed,
and for each pound of it take half a pound of alum, and a
quarter of a pound of tartar; beat them fmail, and bo'il them
in the quantity of a pailful of prepared liquor for a quarter of
an hour; then put in the filk, and let it iteep for two hours j
then