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DYEING AND CALICO PRINTING .

Bismarck.

For 50 lbs. of bleached yarn. Form a beck with 5 lbs. of boiled madder, towhich add a solution of 5 lbs. of alum, heating the beck to 150° F. Handlethe yarn for five turns ; then add to the beck 2 lbs. of muriate of tin ; handlefor fifteen minutes, rinse, and dry.

Slate.

For 50 lbs. of bleached yarn. Pass the yarn through a warm bath, con-taining 5 lbs. of boiled sumach and 1 pail of logwood liquor, giving the yarnsix turns. Then remove the yarn, and pass it through a cold solution of2 lbs. of copperas and £ lb. of blue vitriol. After twenty minutes rinse anddry.

Cutch Brown (fast).

Take 50 lbs. of dry yarn through a hot beck containing the solution of10 lbs of cutch; or the yarn may lie in the beck over night. Then removethe yarn and handle it through a hot solution of bichromate of potash. Rinseand dry.

Black.

For 50 lbs. of yarn. Have in readiness a kettle containing 10 pails oflogwood liquor, to which add 2 lbs. of blue vitriol and 2 lbs. of soda-ash.When these are dissolved, cool the kettle to 180° F., enter the dry yarn, andhandle it for twenty minutes. Then remove, rinse, and dry.

Another Black, a Fast Colour.

For 50 lbs. of dry yarn. Soak the yarn overnight in a warm solution of15 lbs. of sumach. The next morning remove the yarn, and pass it througha warm solution of 5 lbs. of copperas, 1 lb. of blue vitriol, and 2 lbs. ofwhiting. Then handle it through a cold weak lye of lime-water; rinse theyarn, and again pass it through the sumach bath, to which has been added6 pails of logwood liquor and 1 lb. of boiled starch. The latter will pre-cipitate all the dye-stuff upon the yarn, and a good black, perfectly fast, willbe obtained.