Dictionarium polygraphicum. To dye sand-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
To dye a sand-colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, nut-galls in powder one pound, madder six ounces, fustick four ounces; let them boil and enter your cloth, (twenty yards of broadcloth;) let it boil two hours, and handle it, and so cool it, add copperas four ounces; enter your cloth at a boiling-heat, let it boil a quarter of an hour, and handle it, and so cool it again. If you will have it sadder, put in more copperas; enter your cloth again, and boil another quarter of an hour, cool and wash.

Another sand-colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, red-wood ground two pound and a half, sumach one pound; enter your cloth, boil two hours, and cool; add copperas two pounds, enter your cloth again, and sadden as you think fit, &c.

Another sand-colour.
Take water a sufficient quantity, nut-galls one pound in powder, boil them a little, then add red-wood ground q.s. viz. according as you would have the sand-colour, light or dark; enter your cloth, boil an hour, and handle it. If you would have it darker, add a little wood-soot, enter your cloth, and boil pretty well, and cool; after, sadden as you please with copperas.