Chapter VI: On Dyeing Cotton and Silk

To dye skein cotton yellow—On dyeing and re-dyeing cotton furniture yellow—to dye cotton skein a duck's wing green and olive—Of browns, maroons, coffee colours, &c.—Observations on silk—On ungumming and boiling silk—Whitening—Sulphuring—On aluming silk—Skein silk for yellow—Preparation of annatto for aurora or orange, moidore, gold colour, and chamois—To dye silk aurora or orange—To dye moidore—Process for orange—To dye silk poppy or coquelicot—A cheaper poppy with annatto and Brazil wood—On dyeing, silk a fine crimson—Composition for dyeing silks scarlet or crimson with cochineal—Another process for crimson—Another process for crimson by Brazil wood—Of fine violet—Observations on crimson and scarlet upon silk—On dyeing silk green—On olives—On dyeing silk grey—Nut grey—Black greys—Iron greys—On dyeing silk of a Prussian blue colour—Chromate of lead for yellow on silk or cotton—Conclusion 123

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THE DYER'S GUIDE.