Dissolve two teaspoonfuls of madder in one quart of water. Allow the reed to soak in it five hours.
Yellow Brown No. 1
Soak the reed for several hours in logwood
extract—obtained by boiling logwood chips in water twenty minutes.
Yellow Brown No. 2
Mix in a quart of water two tablespoonfuls of cutch extract, adding one and a half tablespoonfuls of fustic. Boil the reed in this solution for two hours, but test.
Olive Brown No. 1
Dissolve two tablespoonfuls of cutch, two tablespoonfuls of fustic, and one-half spoonful of logwood in a quart of water. Boil the reed two hours in this composition.
Olive Brown No. 2
Boil the material several hours in a composition of one and one-half pounds of walnut bark, five teaspoonfuls of washing soda and one-half cup of rock alum.