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gallons of water per pound of wool , the water being heated to one hundred sixty ( 160 ) degrees Fahrenheit , the washed wet wool is entered and the bath brought up to the boil in one half hour and held at that point for the three ...
gallons of water per pound of wool , the water being heated to one hundred sixty ( 160 ) degrees Fahrenheit , the washed wet wool is entered and the bath brought up to the boil in one half hour and held at that point for the three ...
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... gallons warm water . Dissolve three - fourths ounce Add to the oxalic bath three - fourths ounce copperas dissolved in cold water . It is important that the oxalic acid be added first . Enter the wet wool and boil one and one - half ...
... gallons warm water . Dissolve three - fourths ounce Add to the oxalic bath three - fourths ounce copperas dissolved in cold water . It is important that the oxalic acid be added first . Enter the wet wool and boil one and one - half ...
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... gallons of water in a brass kettle , and when the water is hot add the alum , stirring until it is thoroughly dissolved . Drop in washed yarn and slow boil for one hour . Remove wool from kettle but do not rinse it . Let the wool hang ...
... gallons of water in a brass kettle , and when the water is hot add the alum , stirring until it is thoroughly dissolved . Drop in washed yarn and slow boil for one hour . Remove wool from kettle but do not rinse it . Let the wool hang ...
Common terms and phrases
30 minutes add enough water add the alum alum Conley alum mordant amount berries Birch Bloodroot blossoms blue brass kettle Brazil wood brown Buckthorn Catherine Bailey Chrome Alum chrome mordant cochineal cool copper sulphate copperas cover with water cream of tartar dark degrees F dissolved dried dye bath Dye-Pot dyers dyestuff Elderberry Enter the wet Ferrous sulphate flower heads four gallons gallons of water gives green Hang the wool heat hydrosulphite indigo leaves logwood madder mordant bath mordanted wool Natural Dyes orange Osage-orange overnight oxalic acid oxidation peck Polyporus potassium dichromate pound of wool return ooze return the ooze Rinse the wool roots soak soap suds stalk stir Strain and return sumac tbsp teaspoon thirty minutes vinegar walnut hulls warm water wash the wool washed wool water and boil water is clear wet wool wool 10 lbs wool and simmer yarn yellow dye