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To dye an incarnate or Flesh colour in grain". Take ftale li-
quor, made with fair water and wheat bran, or four tap-wort,
being very clear, a diffident quantity; alum bruifed two pounds
and an half, red tartar bruifed fmall one pound ; boil all together,
and enter twenty yards of broad cloth ; boil and handle it well
for three hours, after which cool your cloth, and warn it well;
then take frefh bran liquor made of a peck of bran, the clear
liquor a fufficient quantity, grains of kermes four ounces, dried
in a pewter difh before the fire, and made into a fine powder; red
argol in powder four ounces; mix all thefe three things toge-
ther, and make them boil; enter your cloth, and handle it, boil-
ing it three quarters of an hour flrongly, and keeping the cloth
under the liquor; then cool and wafh it well.
Another incarnate or Flesh colour, called a ra/berry red. Take
bran liquor a fufficient quantity, alum three pounds; boil for
three hours ; then add madder four pounds, brafil ground four
ounces, alum one ounce, frefh bran liquor a fufficient quantity ;
boil, and then enter twenty yards of camblet fluff, but not boil-
ing; keep it in two hours, take it out and wafh it well.
To dye linen or fujiian of a Flesh colour. For every pound
of linen, put two ounces of baftard or wild faffron in a bag,
and Jay it all night in the quantity of a pail of water to dif-
folve ; throw away this water, and take another pail of water,
and, having taken the faffron out of the bag, rub it well betwixt
your hands, and wring it clean out of the water; filtre the li-
quor that none of the faffron be loft, and then throw it away;
repeat this operation as long as the faffron leaves any yellow
tincture, and then wring it out dry with your hands.
Then take a little ley made with good beech afhes, heat if,
and put it to your thus prepared faffron, letting it lie and ffeep
for five or fix hours ; then wring it out, and, that none may
remain, filtre the ley through a hair fieve ; then throw away the
faffron, and add to the ley an equal quantity of beer vinegar;
liir it about very well, and put in your pound of linen, letting
it lie in the liquor for three or four hours, and then rinfe it clean
out, and it 'will be of a very good crimfon Flefh colour; but
you muff take care to ftir the linen often about, to prevent its
being flaked and unequally dyed.
To dye filk the beautiful Spanijh Flesh colour or carnation.
Firft prepare and alum your filk as for crimfon ; and for every
pound of filk take four pounds of wild faffron, which put into
a thick bag; throw it into feveral waters, and work it fo long
till the water comes from it clear ; then take the faffron out of
the bag, fqueefe and rub it with your hands till it is dry, put-
ting it into another veffel ; afterwards, for every pound of filk,
take a quarter of a pound of pot-afhes, zid rub them well into
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To dye an incarnate or Flesh colour in grain". Take ftale li-
quor, made with fair water and wheat bran, or four tap-wort,
being very clear, a diffident quantity; alum bruifed two pounds
and an half, red tartar bruifed fmall one pound ; boil all together,
and enter twenty yards of broad cloth ; boil and handle it well
for three hours, after which cool your cloth, and warn it well;
then take frefh bran liquor made of a peck of bran, the clear
liquor a fufficient quantity, grains of kermes four ounces, dried
in a pewter difh before the fire, and made into a fine powder; red
argol in powder four ounces; mix all thefe three things toge-
ther, and make them boil; enter your cloth, and handle it, boil-
ing it three quarters of an hour flrongly, and keeping the cloth
under the liquor; then cool and wafh it well.
Another incarnate or Flesh colour, called a ra/berry red. Take
bran liquor a fufficient quantity, alum three pounds; boil for
three hours ; then add madder four pounds, brafil ground four
ounces, alum one ounce, frefh bran liquor a fufficient quantity ;
boil, and then enter twenty yards of camblet fluff, but not boil-
ing; keep it in two hours, take it out and wafh it well.
To dye linen or fujiian of a Flesh colour. For every pound
of linen, put two ounces of baftard or wild faffron in a bag,
and Jay it all night in the quantity of a pail of water to dif-
folve ; throw away this water, and take another pail of water,
and, having taken the faffron out of the bag, rub it well betwixt
your hands, and wring it clean out of the water; filtre the li-
quor that none of the faffron be loft, and then throw it away;
repeat this operation as long as the faffron leaves any yellow
tincture, and then wring it out dry with your hands.
Then take a little ley made with good beech afhes, heat if,
and put it to your thus prepared faffron, letting it lie and ffeep
for five or fix hours ; then wring it out, and, that none may
remain, filtre the ley through a hair fieve ; then throw away the
faffron, and add to the ley an equal quantity of beer vinegar;
liir it about very well, and put in your pound of linen, letting
it lie in the liquor for three or four hours, and then rinfe it clean
out, and it 'will be of a very good crimfon Flefh colour; but
you muff take care to ftir the linen often about, to prevent its
being flaked and unequally dyed.
To dye filk the beautiful Spanijh Flesh colour or carnation.
Firft prepare and alum your filk as for crimfon ; and for every
pound of filk take four pounds of wild faffron, which put into
a thick bag; throw it into feveral waters, and work it fo long
till the water comes from it clear ; then take the faffron out of
the bag, fqueefe and rub it with your hands till it is dry, put-
ting it into another veffel ; afterwards, for every pound of filk,
take a quarter of a pound of pot-afhes, zid rub them well into
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