solution of tartaric acid, then rinsed; 12 or 16 drops of the
composition, stirred into a quart-bowl of warm water, and strained
if settlings are seen, will dye a great many articles. If you want
a deeper colour, add a few drops more of the composition. If you
wish to colour cotton goods, put in pounded chalk to destroy the
acid, which is very destructive to all cotton; let it stand until
the effervescence subsides, and then it may be safely used for
cotton or silk.


205. FOR LILAC COLOUR

Take a little pinch of archil, and put some boiling-hot water upon
it, add to it a very little lump of pear-lash. Shades may be altered
by pear-lash, common slat, or wine.


206. TO COLOUR BLACK

Logwood and cider, boiled together in iron, water being added for
the evaporation, makes a good durable black. Rusty nails or any bits
of rusty iron, boiled in vinegar, with a small piece of copperas,
will also dye black; so will ink powder, if boiled with vinegar. In
all cases, black must be set with copperas.


207. TO DYE LEMON COLOUR

Peach leaves, bark scraped from the barberry bush, or saffron,
steeped in water, and set with alum, will colour a bright lemon,