BROWNS: (1) Fast Brown (110 lb. cotton yarns).—Dissolve 22 lb. catechu, and 2 lb. 3 oz. blue vitriol (sulphate of copper) in boiling water ; steep for 1 hour in the boiling hot liquid ; lift, drain, and then dye at a boil in 3 lb. 4 oz. bichromate of potash in fresh water. Rinse, and dry.
(2) Fast Bed Brown (11 lb.).—Boil 2 lb. 3 oz. good cutch in water ; let it settle ; dissolve in the clear liquid 31 oz. blue vitriol. Work the yarns for 1 hour at 100° (212° F.); wring out, and make up a fresh boiling beck with 4+ oz. chromate of potash. Work fors hour, and rinse. Boil 31 lb. sumach in water; work the yarn in the liquid for f hour at 88° (190° F.); lift ; dissolve in the liquid 2/ oz. tin crystals. Enter again, work for f hour, and wring out. Make up a fresh beck with 2 lb. 3 oz. of peachwood, and 81 oz. alum, and work in this for 1 hour at 37° (99° F.).
(3) Dark Brown (60 lb).—Boil 18 lb. cutch, and 2 lb. blue vitriol, until dissolved. Add this to a hot water ; give 3 turns, and let steep all night. Give 1 turn in the morning, and wring up. Dissolve 2 lb. chrome ; add this to a hot water ; give 3 turns, and wring up. Boil 2 lb. fustic extract and 2 lb. lngwood extract, till dissolved ; add this to a hot water ; give 4 turns, and lift ; add 4 qts. copperas, and give 3 turns more. Wash in cold water, and dry.
(4) Light Blonde Hair Brown.—Boil 6 lb. cutch, and 6 oz. blue vitriol, till all is dissolved. Add this to a hot water ; give the yarn 3 turns ; let steep all night ; give one turn more in the morning, and wring up. Add 1 lb. alum to a hot water ; give three turns, and lift. Boil f lb. turmeric and f lb. extract of logwood together, and add this to the same liquor. Give four turns ; wash in cold water, and dry.
(5) Bismarck Brown (100 lb.).—Steep the yarns overnight in a decoction of 20 lb. sumach. Wring, and pass into a boiling bath, containing the colour previously dissolved in boiling water.
For darker shades, pass the cotton from the sumach beck into a cold beck of 6 lb. copperas,
and let steep fora hour ; rinse, and return to the sumach beck for f hour, and dye as above.
(6) Cinnamon Brown (10 lb.).—Take through a catechu beck, marking 4° Tw., at a heat of about 82° (180° F.); give about 4 turns. Enter into a chrome beck at Tw. ; give 3-4 turns, and wash. Enter iuto a water containing 30 gal. fustic liquor ; give 3-4 turns, run off, and make up a fresh beck with 34 gal. sapan liquor, ands lb. annatto, previously dissolved. Give 3-4 turns ; lift ; add to the beck 1 gal. alum solution at 8° Tw. ; give 3-4 turns ; lift, rinse, and dry.
(7) Madder Brown (for 10 pieces of 60 yds. each).—Pad the cloth in 6 gal. red liquor and 1 gal. iron liquor, to which about 6 gal. water have been added. Dry, and age for about 24 hours, when it is ready for dyeing. Run the pieces now through boiling water, iu which ohalk is suspended. Wash in the fly, rinse, and enter into a dye-beck of 40 lb. bark, and 20 lb. madder. Dye for 1 hour at 77° (170° F.); wash, and finish.
Yarns may be dyed in a similar manner.
(8) Chocolate (11 lb.).—Work the yarn for f hour at 75° (167° F.) in a beck of 81 oz. prepared catechu ; lift, and take 5-7 times through a fresh beck at the same heat, made up with If oz. chromate of potash. Lift, and top in a fresh beck with oz. magenta, and 16 gr. extract of (9) Claret (11 lb. yarns).—Make up a beck with 17f oz. prepared catechn, and work the yarns in it for 1 hour. Wring, and steep for hour in a hot beck of 6} oz. chromate of potash; take through cold water, and wash for f hour in a beck of 31 lb. sumach at 88° (190 F.). Dye in a cold bock with If oz. magenta, lift, add to the beck 81 oz. alum and the decoction of 2} lb. log wood. Enter again, work in the cold beck; lift, and add, according to shade, from -1 to If oz. chromate of potash ; re-enter and work to shade.