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4o6 GRE
twenty yards of broad-cloth ; handle it, boil with a flrong fire
for two hours, cool, wafh it well. Take water, a fufficient
quantity ; hedder or heath flravel, what you think fit; boil well
for an hour; take forth the hedder, enter your cloth, handle it
well, and let it boil a quarter of an hour ; then cool, and put in
a little urine ; enter your cloth again, boil a quarter of an hour,
cool, and wafh it well.
Note, That the different and various colours of Greens arife
from the firft blue being lighter or fadder, or from the yellow
being a deep or light colour.
To dye woollen fluffs Green. Firft, dye the fluffs yellow
with broom or dye-weed, rinfe them well out, and while they
are yet wet pafs them through the blue dye, and work it, till
it is the colour you would have it, either light or dark; fo that
feveral fhades or forts of Green may be dyed the fame way, the
fluffs having been always firft tinged yellow.
AJca Green. For every pound of fluffs allow three ounces
of verdigreafe powdered, three pints and a half of wine vinegar,
flir the verdigreafe in it; pafs a pair of (lockings through the li-
quor, and then hang them out without rinfing; when they are
dry, wet them in the liquor again, and hang them up to dry
again, fo often, till they are perfectly cleared from all humidity.
A brown or iron Green. Having hung clear rain water over
the fire, put in, for every pound of woollen, powdered galls,
gum, brafil, and copperas, of each an ounce and an half, and
verdigreafe, one ounce ; boil them well together, flirring them
very well j then boil the fluffs in it, till it is to your mind, and
when it is cold rinfe it out.
To dye a lajl'wg brown or iron Green. For a piece of fluff
of fifteen ells take three quarters of a pound of alum, half a
pound of tartar, two ounces of calcined vitriol; in thefe boil the
fluff for half an hour, then rinfe it in clean water ; and when it
is dried for the blue you may throw away the alum fuds.
How to blue it. The ware being blued with woad of a light
or deep brown according; to your mind, then rinfe it again, dry
it and prepare it for the following yellow. Boil eight pounds of
broom for half an hour, keeping it down in the kettle with a
flick, &c. that it does not float on the top of the water; and,
when you ufe it, add to it two quarts of fharp ley, half an ounce
of flower of brimflone, and an ounce of verdigreafe ; then dye
the goods but only once, and it will be of a beautiful brown or
iron Green.
If you pleafe, you may dye the fluff Green from a lead colour,
and it will be deeper than the former, and laft very well ; but,
when it is dyed with brown wood and blued, it will be lighter,
but not fo firm as the other.
twenty yards of broad-cloth ; handle it, boil with a flrong fire
for two hours, cool, wafh it well. Take water, a fufficient
quantity ; hedder or heath flravel, what you think fit; boil well
for an hour; take forth the hedder, enter your cloth, handle it
well, and let it boil a quarter of an hour ; then cool, and put in
a little urine ; enter your cloth again, boil a quarter of an hour,
cool, and wafh it well.
Note, That the different and various colours of Greens arife
from the firft blue being lighter or fadder, or from the yellow
being a deep or light colour.
To dye woollen fluffs Green. Firft, dye the fluffs yellow
with broom or dye-weed, rinfe them well out, and while they
are yet wet pafs them through the blue dye, and work it, till
it is the colour you would have it, either light or dark; fo that
feveral fhades or forts of Green may be dyed the fame way, the
fluffs having been always firft tinged yellow.
AJca Green. For every pound of fluffs allow three ounces
of verdigreafe powdered, three pints and a half of wine vinegar,
flir the verdigreafe in it; pafs a pair of (lockings through the li-
quor, and then hang them out without rinfing; when they are
dry, wet them in the liquor again, and hang them up to dry
again, fo often, till they are perfectly cleared from all humidity.
A brown or iron Green. Having hung clear rain water over
the fire, put in, for every pound of woollen, powdered galls,
gum, brafil, and copperas, of each an ounce and an half, and
verdigreafe, one ounce ; boil them well together, flirring them
very well j then boil the fluffs in it, till it is to your mind, and
when it is cold rinfe it out.
To dye a lajl'wg brown or iron Green. For a piece of fluff
of fifteen ells take three quarters of a pound of alum, half a
pound of tartar, two ounces of calcined vitriol; in thefe boil the
fluff for half an hour, then rinfe it in clean water ; and when it
is dried for the blue you may throw away the alum fuds.
How to blue it. The ware being blued with woad of a light
or deep brown according; to your mind, then rinfe it again, dry
it and prepare it for the following yellow. Boil eight pounds of
broom for half an hour, keeping it down in the kettle with a
flick, &c. that it does not float on the top of the water; and,
when you ufe it, add to it two quarts of fharp ley, half an ounce
of flower of brimflone, and an ounce of verdigreafe ; then dye
the goods but only once, and it will be of a beautiful brown or
iron Green.
If you pleafe, you may dye the fluff Green from a lead colour,
and it will be deeper than the former, and laft very well ; but,
when it is dyed with brown wood and blued, it will be lighter,
but not fo firm as the other.