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Dictionarium polygraphicum. Of dying a Cinnamon colour.


Dictionarium Polygraphicum:
Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested.
Vol I.
London: Printed for C. Hitch and C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, and S. Austen in St. Paul's Church Yard. MDCCXXXV.
1735
I. To dye a Cinnamon colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, madder a pound and half, nut galls a pound, fustick a pound, red wood two ounces, boil all in your cauldron, after enter twenty yards of cloth and handle it, boiling it strongly two hours, cool it, and put into the liquor copperas four ounces; enter your cloth again; boil and handle, boil a quarter of an hour, and cool it, then put in copperas two ounces more; enter your cloth again, and handle it, and let it boil a quarter of an hour, then cool it, and it will be a good Cinnamon colour; the less copperas the lighter it will be, the more copperas the deeper.

II. Another Cinnamon colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, dry rotten oak half a bushel, madder two pounds, boil them well, and enter twenty yards of cloth; which handle well, and boil three hours, still handling it; take it out of the cauldron and air it, and if need be, add a little more water to the dye, and put in copperas twenty four ounces; enter your cloth again, take it out and cool it, and if it is not sad enough, put it in again with more copperas.

III. Another way of dying Cinnamon colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, nut galls bruis'd small four pounds, fustick, red wood ground, of each a pound, boil them all together; then enter your cloth and handle it well, for fear of spotting, and boil it two hours and cool it, then put in to sadden it copperas two pounds; then it will dye forty eight or fifty pounds of wool, yarn, flannel, bays, cloth, &c.

IV. Another Cinnamon colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, of madder two pounds, of red-wood ground a pound, boil them together for an hour; then enter forty pounds of wool, yarn, cloth, &c. and boil again an hour, take it up and air it, put in copperas three pounds; which when melted, put in the cloth again, make it boil.

V. Another Cinnamon colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, crust madder three pounds, nut galls bruis'd small, fustick, red-wood ground, of each a pound, rotten oak wood, tanners bark, of each half a pound; boil all together; then enter twenty yards of cloth, and boil an hour and half, after which cool and sadden with copperas eight ounces, and if that deepens it not enough put in more.

VI. Another Cinnamon colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, nut galls, madder, of each a pound, fustick twenty four ounces, redwood ground fix ounces, boil and enter twenty yards of broad cloth, cool and sadden with copperas four ounces.

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