Dictionarium polygraphicum. Of dying red colours.

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
1. To dye the best Red colour.
Take clear stale wheat-bran liquor, or soar tapwort, a sufficient quantity, alum bruised three pounds, put all into your copper, enter your twenty yards of broadcloth: and handle it, boil it three hours, cool and wash it well; take fresh wheat-bran liquor a sufficient quantity, madder five pounds, enter your cloth at a good heat, handle it to a boiling heat, cool it and wash it well; rake fresh wheat-bran liquor a sufficient quantity, let it boil, and put in urine a gallon, enter your cloth, boil half an hour, cool it and wash it, and it is done.
Note, Urine it not much used now, and some do not wash tht cloth out of the alum.

2. Another Red dye.
Take clear fair water a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds; boil and enter twenty yards of broadcloth, boil it two hours and an half; take it out, and range it, and hang it up a little while to let the water drop from it. Take clear stale bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, madder four pounds, steeped first an hour in small beer, bring it almost to a scalding heat, and enter your cloth, and handle it swiftly for the space of half an hour; take your cloth into urine, after which wash it well, and it is done.

3. Another very good Red dye.
Take water a sufficient quantity, alum three ounces to every pound of wool, yarn, or cloth; boil the wool, put it not in 'till the alum is melted, boil three hours, take it out, wash it well in cold water, and cast away the liquor; take fresh clear branliquor, or small-beer unboiled, add to it five ounces of madder to every pound of wool, yarn, or cloth, &c. put in the madder when the liquor begins to be warm; break the madder well with your hands when in the liquor, and when it is near boiling, enter your cloth, &c. and handle it well, boiling it half an hour, or 'till it is well-coloured; then put in three quarts of urine, give two or three boils, and so take out your cloth, &c.

4. Another Red colour.
Take liquor a sufficient quantity, alum three pound, tartar one pound, boil and enter twenty pounds of wool, yarn, or cloth; boil two hours, rake it out, wash it clean, castaway the liquor, and put in clear fair water, and madder four pounds: when it boils, enter your cloth, &c. again, and handle it 'till it is enough.

5. Another Red colour or dye.
Take water thirty quarts, alum two ounces and an half, and therein boil thirty pounds of wool, yarn, or cloth, &c. and take it out; take fair water ten gallons, madder five millings worth, REP let it stand twelve hours, boil and enter yqur wool, yarn, cloths &c. boil it quickly, and then take it out, and put it into strong urine for one hour, then take it out and wash it.

6. Another Red colour or dye.
Take four bran-liquor, alum two pounds and an half, tartar two ounces; enter twenty yards of broadcloth, and boil them three hours, and take them out; take fresh bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, madder four pounds, boil, handle, and finish it.

7. Another Red dye.
Take stale wheat-bran liquor six days old, or four tapwort a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds, enter twenty yards of broadcloth, boil three hours, cool and wash them; take fresh and clear bran liquor a sufficient quantity, madder four pounds steeped in the same liquor, enter your cloth at a good heat, and handle it to a boiling, take it out cool, and wash it well.

8. A good Red dye.
Take rain-water a sufficient quantity, Brasil in powder, fine vermilion, of each one ounce, alum one drachm, boil them 'till half is consumed.

9. Another excellent Red dye.
Take lixivium of unflacked lime five gallons, Brasil ground two pound and a half; boil to the half, then put to it alum twenty ounces; keep it warm, but not to boil: then what you would dye in this liquor, dip into a lye made of ashes of tartar, letting it dry, then dip it into the lye.

10. Another good Red colour or dye.
What you would dye, first boil in alum water, then dip it into, the following liquor; take water a sufficient quantity, Rosset one pound, gum Arabic a little, boil a quarter of an hour, and then strain it for use.

11. To make a pure clear Red dye.
Take wheat-bran liquor thirty quarts, or a sufficient quantity, Brasil in powder four pounds, alum in powder two pounds, tartar one pound; mix and dissolve, and make a tincture; enter your stuff or cloth, boil it for two hours, take it out, and boil it again in fresh bran-liquor thirty quarts, adding madder three pounds, and perfect the colour with a moderate heat without boiling.

12. Another good Red dye.
Boil the things you. would dye first in alum water, then take them out, and boil them in water with Brasil in fine powder; let it boil 'till the scum arises, then put in the things to be dyed, and let them boil 'till the water looks of an orange tawney; casting in then also a handful of bay salt.

13. To colour barley-straw, &c. Red.
Boil ground Brasil in a lixivium of pot-ashes, and in that boil your straw.

14. A Red pigments which shall not grow black.
Take fine vermilion, grind it with water of gum ammoniacum, with the addition of a little saffron.

15. To dye a good Red.
Take stale clear wheat-bran liquor a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds, enter twenty yards of broadcloth, handle and boil it three hours, take it out, cool and wash it well; take fresh bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, madder six pound, enter your cloth at a boiling heat, and handle it 'till it is as deep as you would have it; and if you please, finish it with Brasil.

16. To make Red paper.
Take bastard saffron, or safflower, eight ounces, put it into a linnen bag, and wash it by a river side, 'till it scarcely gives any colour; then put the remainder intoabsson, sprinkling it with powder of glass-wort (or rather with soda) one ounce; so put it into a little pail of blood-warm water, stirring it, after which strain it, and add a little juice of lemons to make it give a red colour, the paper ought to be fine, and dipt into the bason.