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DYEING AND CALICO PRINTING.

handling well. Boil for one hour; and add i| lbs. of sulphate of copper. Boilagain for twenty minutes ; and darken with 2 lbs. of copperas.

Browns on wool should never contain an excess of chrome or peachwood.

Bismarck.

For 50 lbs. of fabric. Dissolve 10 lbs. of alum, 2 lbs. of sulphuric acid,2 ozs. extradt of indigo, 1 oz. of fustic, 3 ozs. of madder. Cool and enterthe fabric. Boil for half an hour. Remove, cool, and rinse. Pass the fabricnext through a cold bath of 3 lbs. of peachwood, 5 lbs. of fustic, and £ lb. oflogwood, with 8 lbs. of dissolved alum. Cudbear, orchil, or magenta andpicric acid may be substituted for the madder, sometimes with the advantageof greater evenness of colour.

Aniline Bismarck.

For 50 lbs. of part cotton fabric. Dissolve i& ozs. of aniline brown inboiling alcohol. Enter the goods at 170° F., and handle until even; thencolour the cotton as for cotton warps. A bath of strong alum water, sulphuricacid, cudbear, indigo-extradt, fustic, or picric acid will yield a good Bismarckwith mousselines or thibets.

On zephyr, Bismarck of any desired shade may be obtained according tothe following method, by varying the strength of the red, blue, and yellowdye materials :—For 100 lbs. of yarn. Boil the yarn for one hour in a bath of20 lbs. of alum and 5 lbs. of crude tartar. Add a small quantity of sulphuricacid, cudbear, fustic, or picric acid, and indigo-extradt; £ lb. of cudbear, 5 lbs.of fustic, and 1 oz. of indigo-extradt are in good proportion.

Mode with Indigo Bottom.

For 100 lbs. of wool. Colour lightly with indigo-blue. Prepare a beck at180° F., with 2 lbs. of tartar, 13 lbs. of fustic, 6 lbs. of cudbear, and 8 lbs. ofmadder. Enter the wool and boil for one hour. Darken with copperas, ordeepen with sulphate of copper.

Mode without Indigo.

For 100 lbs. of wool. Prepare a bath with 2 lbs. of tartar, 5 lbs. of sumach,1 lb. of logwood,- 4 lbs. of fustic, 2 lbs. of cudbear, and 5 lbs. of madder.Enter the wool at 180° F., boiling slowly for one hour. Darken with 2 lbs.of copperas, boiling for twenty minutes. Remove and expose to the air; coolfor half an hour and rinse. Smaller quantities of dye-stuff in the same pro-portion to each other will yield lighter colours.

DRABS AND SLATES.

Drab.

For 100 lbs. of wool. Dissolve 2 lbs. of tartar, 5 lbs. of camwood, 3 lbs.of sumach, 3 lbs. of fustic, and 1 lb. of logwood. Enter the wool at 180° F.,boiling for one hour. Then add 3 lbs. of copperas in solution, and again boilfor twenty minutes. Cool, expose to the air, and rinse.

Another drab maybe obtained with a bath of 2 lbs. of tartar, 1 lb. of madder,1 lb. of camwood, 1 lb. of cudbear, 1 lb. of fustic, 1 lb. of logwood, and 1 lb.of sumach. Proceed to darken, air, and rinse as before.