COLOURS ON WOOL AND WARPS.

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Magenta on Cotton Warps.

For 50 lbs. of fabric. First colour with the magenta as for wool. Thentake the fabric through a cold bath of 2 lbs. of nut-galls, handling for twenty-minutes. Dissolve i£ ozs. of magenta crystals, adding the solution to a coldbath. Enter the goods fresh from the nut-galls; handle for half an hour.Rinse and dry.

Purple on Cotton Warps.

For 50 lbs. of fabric. Colour first a light purple, and then pass through a bathcontaining 2 lbs. of nut-galls. Dissolve 2 ozs. of aniline purple in alcohol,and with it prepare a cold bath. Enter the goods. Reel quickly at first,then slowly for half an hour.

Scarlet on Cotton Warps.

For 50 lbs. of fabric. Colour first scarlet as for wool. Then pass througha cold bath containing a large quantity of sumach for half an hour, and after-wards through a solution of 8 lbs. of nitrate of tin. Have the mordant aslittle diluted as possible, and handle for ten minutes. Then take the fabricthrough a cold bath of 8 lbs. of alum and 5 pails of fustic liquor, to whichadd 1 lb. of whiting or chalk. Afterwards pass through a cold bath con-taining 25 lbs. of peachwood.

Saxon Blue on Cotton Warps.

For 50 lbs. of fabric. Colour first as for wool. Then handle for fifteenminutes in a cold bath containing 3 lbs. of nitrate of iron and 2 lbs. of muriatgof tin. In a fresh kettle dissolve 1 lb. of yellow prussiateof potash, to whichadd 2 lbs. of sulphuric acid. Enter cold, and pass again through the mordant.Rinse and dry.

Aniline Blue on Cotton Warps.

For 50 lbs. of fabric. Colour first as for wool. Then colour the cottonwith the prussiate of potash and the nitrate of iron alternately until thedesired shade is obtained.

Black and Orange on Cotton Warps.

For 50 lbs. of black wool with white warps. Run 10 lbs. of the cloth at atime through a cold beck of 10 lbs. of acetate of lead, previously boiled fortwenty minutes with 5 lbs. of litharge. Thence take each 10 lbs. through acold weak lime bath, and again through a warm bath containing 10 lbs. ofbichromate of potash. Again through weak lime water. In colouring orangeon cotton, it should always be borne in mind that the fabric should not betaken diredtly from the lead beck into the chrome in order to prevent theoccurrence of bleared stripes.

Green on White Warps.

For 50 lbs. of fabric. First colour the wool green as for yarn. Then colourthe warp with Saxony blue, passing the blued fabric through a beck containingto lbs. of alum and 10 lbs. of fustic liquor. For an intensely yellow shadecitron bark or turmeric may be added.