The Dyer's Guide. Chapter IV. On Scouring and Dyeing Wool. On the yellow of Quercitron bark.

The Dyer's Guide
Being a Compendium of the Art of Dyeing
Linen, Cotton, Silk, Wool, Muslin, Dresses, Furniture, &c. &c.
With The Method of
Scouring Wool, Bleaching Cotton, &c.
And
Directions for Ungumming Silk, And For Whitening And Sulphuring Silk And Wool.
And Also
An Inttroductory Epitome of The Leading Facts in Chemistry, As Connected With The Art of Dyeing.

By Thomas Packer,
Dyer and Practical Chemist.

"Cet arte est un des plus utiles et des plus merveilleux qu'on connoisse."
- Chaptal.

"There is no art which depends so much on chemistry as dyeing."
- Garnett.

Second Edition,
Corrected and Materially Improved.

London:
Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, And Piper,
Paternoster-Row.
1830.

The quercitron bark is said to yield from eight to ten times more colour than weld, and about four times more than old fustic; this was, however, Dr. Bancroft's account, who had a strong interest in this dyeing drug, as stated in the first Chapter . He also asserts, that one pound of bark with muriate of tin, will dye forty pounds of woollen a bright golden yellow, which afterwards becomes a beautiful and durable scarlet, with a fourth part less cochineal than is usually employed on other occasions for such a colour. But Bancroft did not succeed in doing away the old method of saving tartar and cochineal.

His fullest yellow upon cloth, the author has, however, often tried and found it rich and golden; the process is
as follows:

Cloth one hundred pounds; bark in powder, and in a bag, ten pounds; muriate of tin, or murio-sulphate of tin, (for which see forward,) ten pounds. The bark in the bag must be first immersed in the proper sized vessel for six or eight minutes; then add the solution of tin and stir it well for two or three minutes, when the cloth must be put in, and kept in motion by two or three men working over the winch from end to end; then proceed to boil; and, m fifteen minutes boiling, the highest yellow is produced; a longer time would turn the yellow brown.

When a very bright yellow, approaching less to orange, is wanted, seven or eight pounds of solution of tin, five pounds of alum, and ten pounds of bark, will do for a hundred pounds of cloth. In this process, boil the bark first in a bag for a few minutes, then add the solution of tin and the alum, and the cloth afterwards, as before directed; less body requires less quantities of course.