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DYEING AND CALICO PRINTING.

Boil in fresh water 25 lbs. of logwood and 10 lbs, of fustic, adding i lb. ofargol, i lb. dilute sulphuric acid. Enter the prepared wool. Boil for threequarters of an hour. Remove, cool, and rinse. For Orleans and lastings withcoloured warps the sulphuric acid must be omitted. A blue-black may beobtained by omitting the fustic and some of the logwood.

Sumach Black.

For 100 lbs. of cloth. Dissolve 40 lbs. of sumach and 2 lbs. of argol.Enter the fabric, boiling slowly for one hour. Remove the fabric, arid add tothe beck 6 lbs. of copperas and 2 lbs. of sulphate of copper. Enter at igo° F.for half an hour. Remove and air. Cool the dye to 150° F., and add asolution of 4 lbs. of soda-ash. Run through for fifteen minutes, remove, andrinse. This dye upon broadcloth will take colours from the printing block,and may be discharged during steaming if oxalic acid is mixed with the colours.

Fast Black.

This colour prepared without iron, copper, chrome, or logwood is not suitedto common goods, but is adapted for application to mixed goods, such ashosiery. Colour the fabric with lac-scarlet. Then pass it through a warmbath of weak soda-lye (about 5 lbs. of soda). Rinse, and finish in the indigo-vat until black—6 lbs. of indigo to 100 lbs. of fabric.

Cheap Black.

For 100 lbs. of cloth. Boil in a bag for half an hour 25 lbs. of logwoodand 10 lbs. of fustic, and to the bath add 3 lbs. of blue vitriol, 1 lb. of tartar,and 1 lb. of hydrochloric acid. Enter the cloth, boil for one hour, and thenpass through a warm solution of 5 lbs. of soda. The dye is very fugitive.

Black for Silk-striped Thibets.

For 5 pieces of fabric, each piece weighing 10 lbs. Dissolve 5 lbs. ofcopperas, 1 lb. of sulphate of copper, 2 lbs. of tartar, i£ ozs. of chloride oftin crystals, or 3 ozs. of oxychloride of tin.* Enter the fabric over a reel, andboil for one and a half hours. Remove, cool, and rinse. Prepare a fresh bathwith 25 lbs. of logwood. Cool to 180° F., and enter the prepared goods,handling them quickly. Cool to 130°, adding 2 lbs. of liquor ammonia. Afterfifteen minutes rinse and dry.

COLOURS ON WOOL AND WARPS.

Slates and Modes on White Warps.

For 15 pieces of goods, each piece weighing 10 lbs. Dissolve 20 lbs. ofalum, 15 lbs. of sulphuric acid, 2 lbs. of extradt of indigo, 6 lbs. of cudbear,1 oz. of aniline purple dissolved in hot alcohol. Cool to 180° F., and enterthe fabric, reeling for one hour, and raising the temperature to boiling.Remove and rinse. Then reel through a cold bath of 50 lbs. of sumach forhalf an hour, and afterwards through a cold bath containing a solution of10 lbs. of copperas, 2 lbs. of sulphate of copper, and 2 lbs. of nitrate of iron.Remove and rinse.

* Obtained by passing chlorine through a solution of muriate of tin.