Family Dyeing Receipts
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Two pages of numbered recipes (nos. 303-336) from Dick's Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes, giving small-scale household dyeing instructions. Most cover dyeing wool, worsted, silk and some cotton in black, brown, blue, claret, crimson, green, mauve, magenta, plum and scarlet, with quantities and boiling times. The second page adds recipes for dyeing feathers, aniline red and blue, and dyeing and stiffening hats.
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