Recipes for dyers.

The Textile Mercury, 13.12.1890

The following are mostly translations from foreign sources. We do not guarantee the results from these recipes, but give them for the purpose of showing our readers what their foreign competitors are doing:

Claret on cotton.
For 100 lb. goods. Prepare a dye-bath with
1 lb. diamine black R O,
2½ lb. benropurpurine B,
10 lb. Glauber's salt.
Dye at the boil for 1 hour, than enter in a fresh cold bath of
½lb. safranine G,
Work for 20 minutes, lift, wash, and dry.

Scarlet on half wool.
For 100 lb. goods. Prepare a dye-bath with
2½ lb. benzopurpurine 10 B,
5 lb. phosphate of soda,
5 lb. salt.
Enter at 60°C., heat to boil, and work one hour; wash, then enter in a fresh cold bath containing
¼lb. safranine G,
1 oz. auramine.
Work for 20 minutes, lift, rinse, and dry.

Heliotrope on silk.
For 10 lb. silk. Prepare a dye-bath with
¾ oz. acid magenta,
¼ oz. brilliant green,
3 oz. archill carmine,
and sufficient boiled-off liquor; dye at 180°F. to shade, lift, wash, brighten in a bath of acetic acid.

Dark brown on tussah silk
For 10 lb. silk. Prepare a dye-bath with old boiled-off liquor, broken with acid, and containing
3 oz. acid magenta,
1 oz. malachite green,
3 oz. naphthol yellow S.
Dye at 180°F, wash, and brighten with sulphuric acid.

Seal brown on wool. For 100 lb. wool. Prepare a bath with
3 lb. acid brown,
3 lb. indigo extract,
4 lb. sulphuric acid,
8 lb. Glauber's salt.
Enter at 180°F., heat to boil, and dye boiling for one hour. Lift, wash well, and dry.

Olive bronze on wool.
For 100 lb wool. Make the dye-bath with
10 oz. fast yellow,
5 lb. indigo extract,
5 oz. orange,
4 lb. oil of vitriol,
10 lb. Glauber's salt.
Enter yarn at 140°F., work for a few minutes, then bring slowly to the boil, and work to shade.

Mode brown on half woollen. For 100 lb. goods. Prepare is dye-bath with
5 lb. phosphate of soda,
5 lb, common salt,
7 oz. benzoazurine G.
8 oz. benzopurpurine,
12 oz. chrysamine R.
Enter at 140°F., heat slowly to the boil, and dye boiling for one hour.

Light salmon on silk.
For 100 lb. silk. Prepares bath containing
2 lb. soap,
3 lb. Glauber's salt,
5 lb. phosphate of soda,
½ oz. chrysamine
½ oz. benzopurpurine B.
Enter yarn at 180°F., work a few minutes, then heat to boil, and dye to shade, lift, wash, and dry.

Light slate on cotton. For 100 lb. cotton. Prepare a dye-bath contaiuing
1½ lb. soap,
15 lb. Glauber's salt.
6 oz. diamine black RO,
½ oz. thioflavine S.
Enter cotton at 140°F., work rs little, then heat to boil, and dye to ahade, lift, wash, and dry.

Rose pink on silk.
For 10 lb. silk. Prepare a dye-bath with
2 oz. violamine 2R,
1½ oz. sulphuric acid.
Enter the silk, raise to boil, and work till exhausted.

Blue violet on wool.
For 100 lb. wool. Prepare a dye-bath with
2 lb. acid violet N,
10 lb. Glauber's salt,
2 lb. sulphuric acid.
Dye at the boil, lift, rinse, and dry.

Yellow on woollen cloth.
For 100 lb. of woollen cloth. Prepare a dye-bath with
1 lb. Titan yellow,
20 lb. salt,
¼lb. acetic acid.
Enter the cloth at 170°F., raise to boil, and dye for one hour. Lift, rinse, and dry.

Violet on silk.
For 10 lb. silk. Prepare a dye-bath with
3 oz. violamine B,
4 oz. sulphuric acid.
Dye at boil, lift, rinse, and dry.

Scarlet on satin.
For 100 lb. satin. Prepare a dye-bath with
10 lb. Glauber's salt,
2½ lb. diamine scarlet B.
Dye at the boil for 1 hour, lift, rinse, and dry.