Dye first with the red dye for cloth, and then with a yellow.
2716. Wool (Red)
Take four and a half pounds of cream of tartar, four and a quarter pounds of alum; boil the wool gently for two hours; let it cool, and wash it on the following day in pure water.
Infuse twelve pounds of madder for half an hour with a pound of chloride of tin, in lukewarm water; filter through canvas, remove the dye from the canvas, and put it in the bath, which is to be heated to 100° Fahr.; add two ounces of aluminous mordant, put the wool in, and raise to boiling heat.
Remove the wool, wash, and soak for a quarter of an hour in a solution of white soap in water.
2717. Wool (Yellow)
Dye with that used for