Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1869 — To Color Carpet-Bags. [ARTICLE]

To Color Carpet-Bags.

For Yellow. —One half pound sugar of lead dissolved iu hot water, one-fourtb pound bicromate of potash, dissolved in a vessel of wood, in cold water. Dip first in lead water, then in the potash, then alternate, until the color suits. For five pounds goods. For Orange,-*- To make the yellow a bright orange, take quick lime slack, and let it settle, then drain it off clear—add sufficient water, so that the goods will not be crowded—bring to a scalding heat for an hour, or until it is bright enough. For Blue. —Dissolve pound of coperas in soft water, sufficient to color five pounds of goods—put in the goods and let them remain 15 minutes, then take out the goods, and take clean soft water, and dissolve two ounces prusiate potash, and put in the goods when it is milk warm, let them remain in this 15 minutes, then take out the goods, and add one ounce of oil of vitriol to the potash dye, when it is only milk warm; put in your goods again, boil for a deep blue, and take out before boilingfor lighter shades. For Oreen. —Take the yellow dyed by the. above recipe, and dye it by the above recipe for dying blue, and you will have a beautiful green. Try it, and see if you don’t Another way for Orange. —Take two ounces of anotto, dissolve them in weak lye, in which put two pounds of goods, dye in Iron, and let it remain two or three days, heating it occasionally.— ,I A. B." in Western Rural.

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