Grey Slate.—Boil up 10 lb. sumac, 3 lb. fustic extract; cool down to 120° F., give eight turns, lift and wring. Prepare a fresh bath with 5 lb. copperas; enter cotton cold, give five turns, lift and wash.
Dark Plum.—Lay down overnight in 30 lb. sumac. Next morning wring and enter in a fresh bath of oxy-muriate of tin 20° Tw., give four turns, lift and wash well in two waters. Boil out 40 lb. ground logwood, 10 lb. ground fustic, cool bath down to 140° F.; enter cotton, give eight turns, lift and add 1½ gallons red liquor; re-enter yarn, give four turns, lift, wash and dry.
Pale Chamois.—Work the cotton seven turns in a cold bath of 3 lb. copperas, then wring and pass into a cold bath of 3 lb. soda ash; work well, wash and dry.
Dark Brown Olive.—Prepare a bath of 28 lb. fustic, ¾ lb. logwood, 18 lb. cutch, 4 lb. turmeric, 2 lb. copper sulphate, ¾ lb. alum; work for an hour at the boil, then sadden in a new bath of 1 lb. bichromate of potash for half an hour, then sadden in a new bath of ¼ lb. nitrate of iron, working in the cold for half an hour, lift, wash and dry.
Havana Brown.—Prepare a bath with 4 lb. cutch and 1 lb. bluestone; work at the boil for one hour, then pass through a warm bath of ½ lb. bichromate of potash, 1 lb. sulphuric acid. Wash and dye in a bath of ¾ lb. Bismarck brown and 4 lb. alum; work for one hour at about 180° F., wash and dry.
Black.—Prepare a dye-bath with 20 lb. extract of logwood, 4 lb. cutch, 5 lb. soda ash, 5 lb. copper sulphate. Heat to the boil, enter the cotton, and work well for three hours, then lift, and allow to lie overnight in a wet condition, wash and pass into a bath of 1 lb. bichromate of potash for half an hour; lift, wash and dry. The dye-bath is not exhausted, and only about one-third of the various drugs need be added for further batches of cotton.
Reseda Green.—Prepare a bath with 15 lb. cutch, 8 lb. turmeric; work in this for fifteen minutes at about 150° F., then pass through a hot bath of 2 lb. bichromate of potash for one hour, then re-enter into a cutch bath to which has been added, 1 lb. sulphate of iron; work for one hour, then add 2 lb. alum and work half an hour longer, rinse, wash and dry.
Fawn Brown.—Prepare a dye-bath with 4 lb. cutch, 2 lb. fustic extract; work for one hour at hand heat, then lift, and pass through a bath of 1¼ lb. bichromate of potash; work for a quarter of an hour, rinse and pass into a fresh bath of 1 oz. Bismarck brown for ten minutes, then lift, wash and dry.
Beige.—Prepare a bath with 20 lb. sumac; enter cotton at 120° F., give six turns, lift and add ½ lb. copperas; re-enter cotton, give four turns and wring. Prepare a fresh bath containing 2 lb. extract of fustic, 3 oz. extract of indigo; enter cotton at 120° F., give three turns, raise temperature to 140° F., and turn to shade, lift, wash and dry.