Dictionarium polygraphicum. To dye Silk a King's colour.

Dictionarium Polygraphicum:
Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested.
Vol II.
London: Printed for C. Hitch and C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, and S. Austen in St. Paul's Church Yard. MDCCXXXV.
1735
Put a sufficient quantity of water into a clean kettle or copper, and to every pound of silk take 12 ounces of madder, and the same quantity of galls; boil the silk with them for an hour, then take them out, let them be a little browned, and then dried.