Dictionarium polygraphicum. Of dying a Red blush-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
1. To dye a Red blush-colour.
Take stale clear wheat-bran liquor fix days old, a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds and an half, red tartar half a pound, melt these, and enter twenty yards of broadcloth; handle and let it boil three hours, take it out and wash it well, (but some wash it not.) Take fresh liquor a sufficient quantity, of the best madder three pounds, enter your cloth, and handle it to a boiling hear, cool and wash it again: lastly, take fresh bran-water a sufficient quantity, let it boil, enter your cloth, let it boil a quarter of an hour, cool and wash it well again.

2. A Red blush-colour in grain.
Take stale sour clear bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds and a half, red tartar half a pound, enter twenty yards of broadcloth, boil it three hours, cool and wash it, rake fresh clear bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, best madder three pound, enter and boil again. Take fresh bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, grains in fine powder four ounces, red tartar three ounces, enter your cloth, boil an hour or more, keeping your cloth well under the liquor, then cool and wash.

3. Another blush-colour in grain.
Take clear stale, or lour wheat- bran liquor, a sufficient quantity, alum three pounds and a half, red tartar eight ounces; melt them, and enter twenty yards of broadcloth, boil it three hours, handie it well, take it out, cool and wash it; take fresh bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, enter your cloth, and handle it, letting it boil a quarter of an hour, cool and wash it; take more fresh bran-liquor a sufficient quantity, make it boil, and add (hereto grains in powder two ounces, red tartar one ounce and half, let them boil, enter your cloth, handle and boil it three quarters of an hour, then cool and wash it well.

4. To make a Spanish carnation colour.
Take bastard saffron, or saffower, wash it well, dry it and beat it; and to a pound of it, being beaten, add calcined tartar four ounces; grind all together, and put it into a double coarse linnen bag, and aftuse upon it a quarter of a pint of le mon juice blood-warm; put into this a sufficient quantity of fair water, and then put in the thing you would dye: but the stuff or cloth you would dye is first to be boiled in alum water.