.

Bemarks. I have these receipts from a nephew of mine, and have not personally tested them, but I have others (see below as to 3 of these colors).

Still

it looks to me this would be rather pale, then try

gal. of water only to the

oz. of the soluble blue, and if this is darker than needed take a tea-spoonful of

it and add a tea-spoonful of water, this would be equivalent to 1 gal., and so if

it takes 3 tea-spoonfuls of water to make the desired shade, it will take the full

3 gals. This will be better than if I had tested it myseK, as it puts so many

upon a plan to experiment for themselves.

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Bluing for

Clothes.

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— And by the way now this soluble blue

the thing to make bluing for clothes being washed.

is

just

But where the common

soluble blue or Chinese blue is kept and used by painters, we put 1 oz. to 1 qt.

of water, then a table-spoonful or two is enough for a tub of clothes, the woman

judging for herself the depth of shade, putting in more or less to suit.

rV. Red ink is made with cosine T. extra, or J. yellowish shade, J^ oz. to

water 1 gal.

V. Green is made very nice, by using methyl green, B. bluish dark shade,

J^ to 1 oz. to water 1 gal.

Bemarks. I think all the powder should be dissolved in a little alcohol,

else boiling water as with the violet No. 2.

These are all analine inks, or colors, although they have different names to distinguish them.

The nephew that

sent me these recipes also sent writing done with the red, black, and the violet.

They were as nice shades as could be desired.

Any one can make as dark,

deep shade as they may choose by first using only half the water, then adding

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more as they prefer.

2. Black Ink, Witli Nut Galls and Logwood for "Writing and

Copying. — Inks made from the nut galls alone as the coloring agent are not

as good a black as those made with the addition of logwood chips; hence we

say

Logwood chips, 1 oz. nut galls in coarse powder which have not been

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eaten by moths or worms,

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lbs. ; purified

copperas, 3 ozs.

;

acetate of copper

3^ oz. pulverized sugar, 3 ozs., and gum Arabic, 4 ozs. soft water

1 gal.

If not to be used as a copying ink no sugar need be used and only 2 or

3 ozs. of the gum Arabic to hold the colors suspended in the ink else they

(verdigris),

;

;

Directions

settle.

—Boil the logwood chips in the water for an hour or two,

or as long as a woman would boil

ing

up

for evaporation with

it

for coloring;

when cool, strain, mak-

more hot water; bruise the

best blue

galls,

coarsely and put over the fire again till it begins to boil, adding the other articles

and set away until it acquires the desired blackness,

strain

and

bottle

for use.

Remarks.

—If properly made

it is

a black ink, at once, and

all the time,

does not fade, and is therefore suitable for all records. The others are cheaper,

and a little less trouble to make, but do not give permanent satisfaction.

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oz.; alum,

3. Black Copying Ink, Cheap. Ex. of logwood,

powdered, 160 grs. bi-chromate of potash, 48 grs. soft water, 1 pt. Directions Dissolve the ex. and other drugs in half of the water, and percolate

tlie rest of the water through the drugs.

Remarks. This percolation is the same as straining, only it is done through

filtering paper in a glass^nnel or tunnel, by druggists, the paper can be got of

the druggist, and put info a common tin tunnel, such as used in almost every

family in the country, the puckering of the paper as it is pressed down into the

tunnel lets the fluid run down readily. This receipt is the same as one of the

best druggists in Ann Arbor, Mich., uses." If not wanted for copying, add water

to give the desired shade, and to make it flow more freely as a general writing

ink.

See also an ink for school children, also cheap, and

It is cheap and good.

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flows easily.

Ticket Writer's Glossy Ink. — To any good ink, 4 ozs., add gum

Arabic, J^ oz.

Let stand in a warm place, and shake frequently.

solved, if too thick, add

fine glossy letter;

blue,

When dis-

more ink, if too thin, more gum. It will produce a

red or other colors work with equal satisfaction.

Oracle, Ont.

INDELIBLE INK— For Marking Clothing, To Write With

a Pen. — I.

Ink, into an ounce bottle, put nitrate of silver, (lunar caustic), 1 dr.

gum Arabic, clean and white, 3 or 4 pieces the size of a common pea; then fill

% full with soft water.

This ought to be in a dark-colored, glass-stoppered

This is the ink

proper; but to make it j^ermanent, we have to first use a pounce, which also

prevents the ink from spreading in the cloth, as follows:

Pounce Into a 4 oz. bottle put sub-carbonate of soda, 2 drs.; fill

II.

with water. Directions. Wet the places to be written upon with the pounce,

and iron smooth with a properly heated iron; tlien rub hard over the same spot

with the end of a tooth brush handle, to polish, that tlie writing may be done

nicely with the ink, using only a quill pen; then pass the hot iron over the

writing to dry, and set the ink, else dry in tlie sun. This, if properly done

bottle.

Else it must be kept in a dark place when not in use.

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makes it perftJtUly indelible.

Indian Domestic Economy.

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609

A

Indelible Ink, Quickly and Cheaply Made.—

correspondent

of the Detroit Pi'ee Press Houseliold, gives us the following very simple home

made way of making the ink and doing the work, and I wiU guarantee it will

She says:

Rain water, 1 table-spoonful ; vinegar, J^ tea-spoonful lunar caustic, druggists keep this in small sticks, a piece 3 inches long; put all in an ounce

bottle, and shake occasionally till dissolved.

Keep in a dark place.

II.

Directions. To each tea-spoonful of milk needed to wet the places

Bpon which the name is to be written dissolve a piece of baking soda as large

as a grain of corn iron it smoothly, and write the name with a quiU pen with

prove satisfactory.

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the ink immediately.

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Remarks. Dry with the hot iron or in the sun, as in No. 1. In the same

communication the lady said: Common soda, (the same as baking soda), in

powder, with a damp cloth, and a brisk rubbing, is the best thing to clean tinware, rubbing it dry.

INK, INDELIBLE— To Mark with a Plate.— Dissolve

pure

sulphate of iron, (pure copperas), 1 lb. in acetic acid, IJ^ lbs., and add precipitated carbonate of iron, (sesquioxide), 1 lb., and stir tiU they combine.

This

should be done in an iron kettle over a slow fire. Then put in printer's varnish,

3 lbs., and fine book ink, 2 lbs., and stir till well mixed; and to complete it add

sethiops-mineral (black sulphuret of mercury), finely pulverized and sifted, 1 lb.

mixed in thoroughly.

Remarks This I obtained from an old stencil plate cutter, who had made

and sold it many years. He said this would fill nearly 1,000 1 dr. bottles

which he sold for 25 cts. each. The sulphuret of mercury gives it its indeliIf drs.

bility.

If you use ozs. in place of lbs. it will make about 60 bottles.

Now suit yourself

are used instead of ozs. you will have only 7 or 8 bottles.

Of course, to be kept corked.

as to the amount you will make.

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COLORING FOR DOMESTIC USES.—As the "Diamond, "dyes,

analine and other colors are being so considerably used in coloring, at the time

of writing this book, I shall only give a few recipes for those piu-poses, which are

vouched for mostly by ladies who have used them, some of them yearly for 20

years, suitable for woolen, silk, cotton, carpet rags, dresses, etc.

Black on Dress Goods.— From a lady who has used it yearly for 20

In an iron kettle put warm water enough to cover 15 yards dress goods.

years.

Be

In this dissolve ex. of logwood, 4 ozs. ; blue vitriol, 2 ozs. copperas, 1 oz.

Of course everything should be dissolved, but the ex. dissolves slowly.

Wet the goods thoroughly, then put into

the dye, and let simmer slowly, stirring and handling often, till dark enough

;

careful to have the ex. well dissolved.

then wash in strong soap suds 2 or 3 times, and rinse until the water is clear.

Press while damp. If the goods look rusty, the dye is too strong, put in more

water.

Cashmeres may be colored by this dye, and make up as good as new.

Black, on Wool or Cotton.

—And

let

me say right here, what will

This is from Mary Zaring to one of the

" I have seen so many recipes to color black, but think

color wool nicely will also color silk.

papers.

She says :

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610

none as good as mine, as it leaves the yarn or wool soft as blue dye does

To

10 lbs of wool or cotton take 1 lb. of logwood (ex.) and 3 ozs. bichromate potash, cost 10 cents; simmer your goods or wool 1 hour in the potash, then take

the goods out in a tub and put in your logwood (ex.) and melt; wring out your

goods and put in the logwood dye and let simmer 1 hour; then put back in the

potash in the tub and let stand a little while; then wring out.

This will not

fade nor rub out as other black. I have colored fine pants this way three years

ago and they are nice yet.

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Another Black. For 10 lbs. of wool or other goods take 10 ozs. of

bichromate of potash and 6 ozs. of crude tartar, or cream of tartar; dissolve

together in an iron pot in 10 gals, of water, enter the wool or goods and boil

IJ^ hours, stirring occasionally; empty the pot and boil SJ^ lbs. of logwood or

say IJ^ lbs. of extract of logwood, in enough water to cover the

its equivalent,

goods well (better to have too much than too little) enter the goods and boil

1 hour; take it oflf and wash the goods in clean cold water, thoroughly, using

2 or 3 waters. If too much of a blue black, add a little more logwood and boil

;

again.

— Tlie Cultivator.

—The 8 next recipes are from Reidoufs Magazine, adapted to

Remarks.

small amounts of goods, and will be found very satisfactory:

Black for Worsted or Woolen Dress Goods, etc. — Dissolve

%

oz.

bichromate of potash in 3 gals, of water.

utes; then wash in cold water.

Boil the goods in this 40 min-

Then take 3 gals, water, add 9 ozs. logwood,

3 ozs. fustic, and 1 or 2 drops D. O. V., or double oil of vitriol; boil the goods

40 minutes, and wash out in cold water. This will dye from 1 to 3 lbs of

cloth, or a lady's dress, if of a dark color, as brown, claret, etc.

All colored

dresses with cotton warps should be previously steeped 1 hour in sumach liquor;

and then soaked for 30 minutes in 3 gals, of clean water, with 1 cup of nitrate

of iron; then it must be well washed, and dyed as first stated.

Black for Silk. — Dye the same as black for worsted, but previously

steep the silk in the following liquor: scald 4 ozs.

logwood and J^ oz. tumeric

Steep 30 or 40 minutes; take

out and add 1 oz. sulphate of iron (copperas), dissolved in hot water; steep the

silk 30 minutes longer.

in 1 pt. boiling water; then add 7 pts. cold water.

Brown for Worsted or Wool. —Water, 3 gals.

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ash,

;

bichromate of pot

Boil the goods in this 40 minutes; wash out in cold water.

take 3 gals, water, 6 ozs. peachwood, and 2 ozs. tumeric.

this 40 minutes;

out.

Then

Boil the goods in

wa^

Imperial Blue for Silk,

Wool and Worsted.—Water, 1 gal.,

pulphuric acid, a wine-glassful; imperial blue, 1 table-spoonful or more, accord

mg to the shade required.

utes;

Put in the silk, worsted, or wool, and boil 10 min

wash in a weak solution of soap lather.

Sky Blue for Worsted and Woolen.—Water, 1 gal.; sulphuric

acid, a wine-glassful; glauber salts in crystals, 2 table-spoonfuls; liquid extract

of indigo, 1 tea-spoonful.

BoU the goods about 15 minutes;-Tinse in cold water.

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Claret for "Wool or Worsted—

Same. — Water, 3 gals.

;

cudbear, 12 ozs.

A Short Way of Dyeing the

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alum,

oz.

Boil the goods in it 1 hour.

2 lbs of material.

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logwood, 4 ozs.; old fustic, 4 ozs.;

Wash. This will dye from 1 to

Crimson for Worsted or Wool. —Water, 3 gals.; paste cochineal,

1 oz. ;

cream of tartar, 1 oz.

;

nitrate of tin (tin dissolved in nitric acid, I think,

— used to be dissolved in a mixture of sulplmric and muriatic acids, and called

it

" muriate of tin,") a wine-glassful.

Boil your goods in this 1 hour.

Wash first

in cold water, then in another vessel with 3 gals, warm water with a cup of

ammonia, the whole well mixed. Put in the goods and work well 15 minutes.

For a bluer shade add more ammonia. Then wash out.

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Fawn Drab for Silk. Hot water, 1 gal.; annotto liquor, 1 wine-glassful;

2 ozs. each of sumach and fustic. Add copperas liquor according to the

requu-ed shade.

Wash out.

It is best to

use the copperas liquor in another

vessel, diluted according to the shade desired.

Blue on Cotton Rags— Does Not Fade. —For 3 lbs. of rags: pnisand 2 large table-spoonfuls of copPut all the ingredients together in an iron kettle, with a sufficient quantity of water, and when well dissolved put in the rags, stir well, and when they

It will probably take

are of the desired color take them out and rinse well.

of an hour to color. Be sure and rinse thoroughly.

from 3^ to

siate of potash, 1 oz. ; oil of vitriol, 1 oz. ;

peras.

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"True Blue" for One Pound of Rags that will Not Fade.—

A lady in writing to the Blade says: " I see Mrs. Gloyd wants a recipe for coloring blue on cotton, that will not fade, so I come in with one that I know to

be good, as I have used it for 2 carpets and it has proved itself true blue every

One oz. Prussian blue, 3^ oz. oxalic acid; pulverize together, and dissolve

time.

in hot water sufficient to cover the goods.

Dip the goods in this dye until they

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are the desired shade; then wring out and thoroughly rinse in alum water."

Blue for Carpet Rags—Better than with Prussian Blue.—To

same inquiry " Perseverance Ann," of Pleasant Lake, Ind., says: " I must

tell ]\Irs. E. G. Gloyd of a better way to color carpet rags blue than with Prussian blue and oxalic acid.

Take 4 ozs. prussiate of potash, 2 ozs. copperas, and

2 ozs. nitric acid, and dissolve in warm soft water, enough to cover the rags.

This will color from 3 to 5 lbs., according to the shade you want. If you color

part of them at a time you will have different shades.

Wash the rags in the

dye, wring out and air, and wash again till the color sets, which ought to be

within half an hour; then rinse thoroughly and dry slowly in the shade. This

colors woolen as well as cotton."

Beinarks. Take your choice of plans, now, you have both. See her drab,

the

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below.

Copperas Color for Carpet Rags, with Lye.—Mrs. M. M. Stark, of

Nankin, Mich., to an inquirer in the Detroit Tnbune, for coloring with cop>" I have a good one, which I send.

Dissolve

pound copperas

peras, says

First

in a pail full of hot water, also have a pail full of white lye prepared.

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dip the rags in the lye, then hang them in the sun and let dry, then dip in the

copperas water and let dry, then in the lye, drying each time after dipping

until you have the desired color."

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Remarks. I notice that some others use as much as 1 lb. to a pail of water,

and do not dry the rags between the dippings, but drain well, choosing a sunny

Certainly the stronger the dye the deeper' will be

day to do it out of doors.

None of them

the color, and the less times of dipping would be necessary.

speak of putting water into the lye, perhaps the strength as run off from the

ashes is intended, but it looks to me to be rather strong, if the ashes are from

good hard wood. If more than one pail of copperas water is needed keep the

same proportions. I should say 1 lb. to each pail needed. Dissolve in an iron

kettle, as copperas is the sulphate of iron.

One lady speaks of a strong lye,

and she also used 1 lb. to a pail of water.

Drab, with Tea, Pretty and Cheap, for Rags, Alpaca Dresses,

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For Five Pounds of Goods. The same Perseverance Ann, of

etc.

Pleasant Lake, lud. , that gave the blue above, comec in with a drab.

These

persevering old maids are the ones to have around the home; they do things

well and keep all in order.

She says

:

"To the old lady who wanted my

To 5 lbs. of goods take J4'

of a pound of the cheapest green tea, and 2 table-spoonfuls of copperas.

Tie

recipe for coloring drab, I send the following

:

the tea in a cloth and steep in a brass kettle, then add the copperas and skim

Put in the goods, and stir and air till colored enough, which will

If this is not dark enough take out the goods and add

more dye-stuff (tea). This is very cheap and pretty for carpet rags and a weak

dye will restore a faded drab alpaca to your complete satisfaction."

thoroughly.

be in a few minutes.

Drab, "with Wut Galls, for Rags or Yarn. — To make a very pretty

light drab for a carpet, take 1 pound of nut galls, and after breaking them up,

put in an iron kettle with a sufficient quantity of water to dip 16 lbs. of rags or

yarn. Boil 1 hour, then add 1 ounce of blue vitriol.

When this is thoroughly

dissolved, put in the yarn or whatever material you desire to color, and let it

simmer for 1 hour.

If not as dark as required

of logwood and dip again.

add a small quantity of extract

Mrs. Helen Wood.

Drab, with Sumach for Rags or Yarn. Lovely and Dark.—

Another writer, name nor place given, says

"I like drab in a carpet so well,

and I heard the other day that sumach bobs make a lovely dark drab, just boil

them up and put in the rags, it needs no setting or preparation whatever; our

neighbor girls had splendid luck in this way, and it is so easy.

Remarks. The only inconsistency I can see here is that no mordant to set

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the color is directed.

I think

above, it would soon fade.

without copperas or vitriol, as in the next ones

I leave that part to those, however, who have more

experience in coloring than the doctor has, but merely suggest its necessity

from the nature or things.

Seal Brown, for 10 Pounds of Goods.—For 10 lbs. of goods, take

3 lbs. of catecliu, and i)ut it in about as much water as you need to cover the

goods well. Boil it until dissolved, then add 4 ozs. of blue vitriol, and stir until

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every particle dissolves.

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After vretting the goods thoroughly, put them in the

dye, and lift, and stir, and turn, and air, until there is no danger of spots; theu

let them

remain in the dye until morning.

Wring or drain.

Then make

another dye, by dissolving in hot water, 4 ozs. of bichromate of potash, 3 ozs.

ol copperas, and 2 ozs. of ex. of logwood, in water enough to cover the goods.

Allow them to remain in this dye 15 or 20 minutes, or until they are of the

first commenced, it

would be well enough to leave out the logwood and copperas, and add them

desired shade; but if they were some dark color when you

gradually, until the required shade be obtained.

Remarks.

— I am sorry I cannot give credit for this recipe, as I am well

It was an answer to an inquiry, and she begged pardon for not answering sooner, and in closing said: " This will dye cotton or

satisfied it is a nice one.

wool, and as said ex. of logwood dissolves so slowly, I always begin that part

a day or two before hand by keeping it soaking, stirring occasionally."

Brown, with Japonica, for Seven Pounds of Bags. — In answer

to an inquiry for coloring brown with japonica, I send the following, which I

know is good Take 6 ozs. bichromate of potash, 5 ozs. alum, 1 lb. japonica.

:

Soak the japonica over night, dissolve the alum, wring the rags through the

alum- water, then put them in the japonica and let them come to a boil; dissolve

the bichromate of potash, wring them through the potash twice and wash thero

in soap-suds.

Mrs. M. G. Lawton, of Coopersville, Mich., in Detroit Free Pres9

HouseJwld.

Dark Brown, with Catechu, for Woolen, Cotton Not So Dark.

To 5 lbs. of goods take