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2710. Silk (Yellow)
Take clear wheat bran liquor fifteen pounds, in which dissolve three quarters of a pound of alum; boil the silk in this for two hours, and afterwards take half a pound of weld, and boil it till the colour is good. Nitre used with alum and water in the first boiling fixes the colour.
2711. Wool (Blue)
Boil in a decoction of logwood and sulphate or acetate of copper.
2712. Wool (Brown)