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Scarlet for Woollen Goods

To each pound of goods take one ounce of pulverized cochineal, one-half ounce of cream-of-tartar, two ounces of muriate of tin. Use soft water. Color in tin or copper. Let the water get a little warm before putting the dye-stuff in. Stir well, so that all is dissolved, then put in the goods and let them come to a boiling heat and simmer until the right shade is obtained. A beautiful rose color can be made by taking out when at that shade. It will not fade by washing or wearing, but grow darker as all other scarlets do. This will not do for cotton or silk.- NETTIE, Paris, Kentucky.

Pink. Take three parts of cream-of-tartar and one of cochineal, nicely rubbed together; tie a teaspoonful in a mustard bag. Put this with a quart of boiling water; dip in the articles to be colored, previously cleaned and dipped in alum water; if wished stiff, put in a little gum arabic.-C., Mansfield, Ohio. XXXI. Coloring-Black, Brown and Slate.

Black. Take one pound of extract of logwood. Put it in a kettle and fill it half-full of water. Dissolve it the day before it is wanted, and pour half of it in a kettle of water. Put in your yarn and boil half an hour. Have ready a quarter of a pound of copperas dissolved in another kettle and take out your yarn and pour in half your copperas water again. Put in your yarn. Let it remain five minutes. You will then have a nice black. When this is done, you can put in all of the rest of your dye and throw in all your old black and gray rags and color them over. will thus have your rags in shape to take to the weaver's, and have a nice carpet.- MRS. J. N., Rockford, Illinois.

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