Dictionarium polygraphicum. Green to dye.

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 an olive-GREEN.
Take clear bran liquors, but stale, a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds, logwood ground one pound; boil, and enter twenty yards of broad-cloth; boil two hours and a half, cool, and wash it well. Take clear water a sufficient quantity, heddar (commonly called linge) heath stravel or fustick as much as may make twenty yards of broad-cloth green; then take water a sufficient quantity, suffick a pound, crust madder, nut-galls, sumach, of each four ounces; boil, enter your cloth, handle it well; boil it an hour and a half, and so cool; add copperas four ounces, and enter your cloth again; boil half an hour; if you would have it sadder, put in more copperas.

II. To dye a Popingjay-GREEN.
Take water a sufficient quantity, alum two pounds, logwood ground eight ounces; boil, and enter twenty yards of broadcloth; boil three hours, and make it a bright yellow; then draw it through a cold fat, and then wash it.

III. To dye a sea-GREEN.
First make it a sad-blue, then take water a sufficient quantity, alum two pounds, logwood four ounces; boil, and enter your cloth; boil three hours; then wash it, and make it a bright yellow; after which, draw it through a cold fat; then wash it again.

IV. To dye a Gras-GREEN.
First make it a sad blue, then take alum two pounds; boil and enter your cloth; boil three hours, and wash it; then dip it into a good yellow dye.

To dye a French-GREEN.
Take clear stale bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, alum two pounds and a half; boil, enter twenty yards of sad blue broadcloth; boil it two hours and a half, and wash it well. Take water a sufficient quantity, heath stravel or fustick sufficient; boil well, put in your cloth, and handle it well; then take twenty ounces of logwood ground, and put into the dye also copperas four ounces (which binds the colour) and if you please, you may new-draw the cloth through a new fat, and handle it; so will it be finished.

VI. To dye a Verdegrease-GREEN.
Take water a sufficient quantity, make it as hot as you can endure your hand in it, in which put verdegrease two ounces in fine powder; enter twenty yards of stuff, and handle it well with your hands; let it lye in the liquor all night, stirring it some time, and then let it lie till it is deep enough.

VII. To dye a Popinjan-GREEN.
Take clear stale bran-liquor or sowre tap-wort a sufficient quantity, alum three ounces; boil, and enter twenty yards of broad-cloth, and boil three hours; cool your cloth, and wash it well. Take fair water a sufficient quantity, neddar (called also linge) or heath stravel a good quantity; boil it well, and take it out; then enter your cloth; boil it well, making it a bright yellow. Heat your blue fat, and put in indigo bruised small four ounces, madder three ounces, ground malt two quarts, new yeast a quart; mix these things well together, keep them as hot as you can, and let it stand till it will strike blue; then enter your cloth, and handle it well (to avoid spotting) till it is done, and so wash it.

VIII. To dye another French-GREEN.
First make your cloth a good blue, and take the same clean bran liquor you take for your greens a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds, logwood ground four ounces; boil well, enter twenty yards of broadcloth, boil two hours and a half; after take it out, cool it, wash it well. Take fair water a sufficient quantity, good neddar or heath sstravel so much as will make your cloth a good green. Take fair water a sufficient quantity, logwood ground a pound; let them boil, add a little urine; enter, your cloth, boil a quarter of an hour; handle it, and so cool it, If you would have it a sad-colour, enter it again, cool, and wash it.

IX. To dye a Forest-Green.
First make your cloth a good blue. Take clear stale bran liquor a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds, logwood ground five ounces; let them boil, enter twenty yards of broad-cloth, handle, and boil it two hours and a half; take it out, cool, and wash it. Take fair water a sufficient quantity, and good hedder enough to make your cloth green; boil it well, then enter your cloth, and boil a sufficient time. Take fair water a sufficient quantity, logwood ground twenty ounces; boil them a quarter of an hour, cool a little; then enter your cloth, and handle it well, letting it boil about a quarter of an hour longer; after which, cool your cloth, and wash it well.

X. To dye a Gras-GREEN.
First, make your cloth a bright blue, then take clear stale bran-liquor or sowre tap-wort a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds; let them boil, and enter twenty yards of broad-cloth; handle it, boil with a strong fire for two hours, cool, wash it well. Take water a sufficient quantity, hedder or heath-stravel what you think fit; boil well for an hour; take forth the hedder, enter your cloth, handle it well, and let it boil a quarter of an hour; then cool, and put in a little urine; enter your cloth again, boil a quarter of an hour, cool, and wash it well.
Note, That the different and various colours of Greens arise from the first blue being lighter or sadder, or from the yellow being a deep or light colour.

XI. A very good GREEN colour.
Take sap-green, bruise it, put water to it; then add a little alum, mix, and infuse for two or three days.

XII. To make a very good dye.
First, dye the cloth or stuff yellow, as we direct in the following; then put it into the blue dye described foregoing.

XIII. To make a dark GREEN colour.
First dye your wool, yarn, stuff, or cloth of a blue colour, as we direct in the foregoing articles; then put it into your yellow dye as in the following, and it will be a dark Green.

XIV. To dye a Popingjay-GREEN.
Make a weak lixivium of pot-ashes, such as the country peo ple wash their clothes with; put into it Indigo a sufficient quantity; then put in your things to be dyed (being first dyed yellow) let it boil, the longer the better, so will the colour be good.

XV. A fair GREEN for miniature.
Grind verdegrease with vinegar and a little tartar, then add a little quick-lime and sap-green; grind all well together, and keep it in a shell, if it grows hard, with vinegar.

XVI. To make a very fair GREEN.
Take verdegrease, tartar, and vinegar, of each a sufficient quantity; boil them all together, and it is done.

XVII. Another GREEN for limning.
Take blackthorn-berries gathered at the latter end of August when ripe, beat them, boil them eight or ten hours very gently; then add water to make it thinner; strain through a cloth as hard as you can, and add to the liquor alum in powder q. 5. some add vinegar, but then it is longer a drying, and will be ruddy. You must keep it in a bladder in the shade, or in the chimney-corner, and it will keep.

XVIII. To make straw-GREEN.
Boil it in water with litmose or logwood, and then it will be blue; then boil them in a lixivium of pot-ashes and yellow barberry-bark, and they will be Green.

XIX. To make a beautiful liquid GREEN.
Take verdegrease one pound, tartar in powder eight ounces, wine vinegar a quart; mix all, infuse for one night, and then boil till half is consumed, and filter whilst hot. When you use it, mix gum ammoniack and saffron to stiffen it; it will glaze over buckthornberry-greens. If you mix it with the juice of those berries and azure, it will make several sorts of Green.

XX. To make GREEN balls.
Take buckthorn-berries a pound, beat and boil them in ten pints of water till half is consumed; strain all through a cloth, and put into the liquor as much ceruss in fine powder as will make it into a paste, which form into little balls, and dry upon tiles; when dry, stiffen them with dissolved gum. They will be better if you mix with them some gum ammoniack.

To dye woollen stuffs GREEN.
First dye the stuffs yellow with broom or dye-weed, rinse them well out, and while they are yet wet, pass them through the blue dye, and work it, till it is the colour you would have it, either light or dark; so that several shades or sorts of green may be dyed the same way (the stuffs having been always first tinged yellow).

A sea GREEN.
For every pound of stuffs allow three ounces of verdegrease powdered, three pints and a half of wine vinegar, stir the verdegrease in it; pass a pair of stockings through the liquor, and then hang them out without rinsing; when they are dry, wet them in the liquor again, and hang them up to dry again, so oft, till they are perfectly clear'd from all humidity.

A brown or iron GREEN.
Having hung clear rain water over the fire, put in for every pound of woollen powder'd galls, gum, brasil and copperas, of each an ounce and half, and verdegrease one ounce, boil them well together, stirring them very well; then boil the stuffs in it, till it is to your mind, and when it is cold rinse it out.

To dye a lasting brown or iron GREEN.
For a piece of stuff of fifteen ells, take three quarters of a pound of allum, half a pound of tartar, two ounces of calcin'd vitriol; in these boil the stuff for half an hour, then rinse it in clean water, and when it is dryed for the blue, you may throw away the allum suds.

How to blue it.
The ware being blued with woad of a light or deep brown according to your mind, then rinse it again, dry it and prepare it for the following yellow. Boil eight pound of broom for half an hour, keeping it down in the kettle with a stick, &c. that it does not float on the top of the water, and when you use it, add to it two quarts of sharp lie, half an ounce of flower of brimstone, and an ounce of verdegrease; then dye the goods but only once, and it will be of a beautiful brown or iron Green.
If you please you may dye the stuff Green from a lead colour, and it will be deeper than the former, and last very well; but when it is dyed with brown wood and blued, it will be lighter; but not so firm as the other.

To dye linen GREEN.
Lay the linen a whole night in strong allum water dry it well, then boil broom or dyers-weed, for the space of an hour; take it out and put into the suds either half or a whole ounce of verdegrease, according to the quantity of the ware you have to dye; stir it well about with a stick, and then work the linen in it, once, twice or thrice, as occasion requires, adding the second and third time a quantity of pot-ashes equal to an hen's egg; then work your linen the third time, and you will find it of a yellow colour; then dry it in the air, and afterwards throw it into the blue-vat (see BLUE) and that will produce the Green you desire.



To dye thread of a lasting GREEN.

Boil three quarters of a pound of Allum, half a pound of tartar, in two quarts of sharp lye for an hour, and in it soak the thread for three hours; keeping it hot all the while.

Then dye it yellow.
Put into the kettle eight pound of broom, one pound of corn marigold flowers, half a pound of crab-tree-bark, that looks yellow and ripe; and superadd two quarts of sharp lye, when these have boil'd half an hour, then dye the thread in the liquor as deep a yellow as possible; but if you can procure Spanish yellow, an addition of three quarters of a pound of it will heighten the dye, and render it more lasting; for it is to be remembred, that all yellows that are design'd to be dyed Green, must be as deep as possibly they can be.

After this turn it GREEN with BLUE dye.
There are in this as in the foregoing receipt, four operations in dying a good Green, that you may make it either a light or a dark Green at pleasure: for first,
You may blue the thread with woad, or else with indigo, being first thrown into the allum suds, and afterwards into the yellow, and you will have a lasting Green. So that Green is to be dyed several ways.

Another green for thread.
First fill the kettle with sharpe lye, and then throw in a bundle of broom; boil them very well, and then pour off the liquor into a vat, and for every pound and half of thread, allow half an ounce of verdigrease, and half an ounce of allum; put these into a quart of lye, in which brown brasil wood has been boil'd; stir them together and pour them into the broom water; and in this mixt liquor, lay the thread in soak for one night, and you will find it well dyed.