The Dyer's Guide / Being a compendium of the art of dyeing linen, cotton, silk, wool, muslin, dresses, furniture, &c. &c.; with the method of scouring wool, bleaching cotton, &c., and directions for ungumming silk, and for whitening and sulphuring silk and wool; and also an introductory epitome of the leading facts in chemistry, as connected with the art of dyeing

by Thomas Packer

To dye cotton skein a DUCK'S WING GREEN and OLIVE.

This is performed by a blue ground, next galling, dipping in the black vat, then in the weld dye, then in verdigris, remembering to wash off previously to performing each process.

Olive is to be performed with weld or old fustic, verdigris, and Brazil wood.

Of BROWNS, MAROONS, COFFEE-COLOURS, &c.

It would answer little purpose to enlarge this treatise with a detail of all the possible methods of producing the various shades of these several colours, the whole consisting in the use of galls, verdigris, sulphate of copper, weld, and madder.

By welding a stuff previously maddered for red you may produce a gold colour; and by dipping the same red in a blue vat you obtain a plum colour.