Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1911 — How to Color Purple. [ARTICLE]

How to Color Purple.

To color purple, for 15 pounds of cotton take 4 pounds of logwood chips and boil them in two pails of water. Dissolve 1 pound of alum in a pall of hot water and add to the first solution. Put in the cotton and boil in the dye for one hour. Drain and hang to dry. To color yellow and green, for 5 pounds of cotton dissolve 8 ounces of sugar of lead in 4 quarts of warm water and dissolve 5 ounces of bichromate of potash in three quarts of warm water. Put the cotton cloth in the lead solution first, wring it out and put into the bichromate of potash solution. Repeat until the right shade is reached. To color green dip the yellow cloth after dyeing into a solution of bluing, making it as deep as liked.