Dictionarium polygraphicum. Grey 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
1. Silver Grey colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, of nut-gall, bruis'd small two ounces, tartar bruis’d three ounces, boil them, enter twenty yards of stuff or cloth, &c. handle and boil an hour and half, cool it; then put in copperas a sufficient quantity, enter your cloth again at a boiling heat, handle it, boil a quarter of an hour, and so cool, if you would have it sadder, put in more copperas.

2. To dye a light Grey colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, nut-galls bruis'd small four ounces, white tartar bruis'd small four ounces, make them boil; then enter twenty yards of broadcloth, and handle it, boiling an hour and half, cool your cloth, and put in copperas an ounce and half, enter your cloth again and handle it, boil it a quarter of an hour, and cool it; if you would have it sadder, put in more copperas.

3. To dye lead colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, nut gall; bruis'd small one pound, madder half a pound, make them boil, enter twenty yards of broadcloth, boil an hour, take it out and cool it; then add to the liquor copperas four ounces, boil and put in your cloth again, handle it a quarter of an hour, after, which take it forth and wash it.

4. To dye another lead colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, nut-galls bruis'd small a pound, red-wood ground two ounces, boil all together, enter twenty yards of broadcloth, and handle it, and boil it an hour and half, take up your cloth and cool it; after which put in copperas eight ounces, enter your cloth again at a boiling heat, and handle it and let it boil half an hour, and cool it, if you would use more copperas; Note, that the quantity that dyes twenty yards of broadcloth, will dye forty yards of stuff.

5. To make a fair russet colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, Brasil ground one ounce, boil it an hour, grains in powder half an ounce, boil and enter your wool, yarn, cloth, &c. boil an hour, cool and add copperas four ounces, enter your matter again, boil and cool, &c.

6. Another russet colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity Brasil in powder, red-wood, of each half a pound, nut-galls two ounces, copperas four ounces, mix and boil an hour, enter the matter you would die; let it lie twenty four hours.

7. To dye a dark GREY.
For every pound of woollen ware, use a quarter of a pound of copperas, and a quarter of a pound of brown wood, (or walnut-tree wood).
To finish it. Take two ounces of brown-wood, and half an ounce of copperas.

A silver GREY.
Boil the goods with two ounces of allum, and two ounces of pot-ashes, for every two pound of woollen; which let lye in it one whole night, and then boil it.
Then to finish it. Dissolve two ounces of sal armoniack, two ounces of litharge of silver, two ounces of bright soot, a dram of crystal of tartar, together for one night; boil them an hour, and pass the woollen stuffs through it.

To dye stuff, &c. a LAVENDER GREY.
Heat a proper quantity of clean rain water in a kettle, and for every pound of stuff, take an ounce of blue lac beaten small, and half an ounce of pounded galls, and the same quantity of vitriol; boil them together, and put in the stuffs, and boil them for half an hour.
This dye is proper for slight ware, as stockings and coarse stuffs; but not for the better sort.

To dye silk a good GREY.
This you may prepare as the tawney dye, and after you have wrung out, rinsed and beaten it, if it be browned, it becomes a good Grey.