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Another method (Take common iron liquor)

Take common iron liquor; and add three quarters of fine flour, and by boiling bring it to the consistently of a thin paste; or instead of flour, add glue or linseed, or gum, or all of them mixed together, till it is brought to a proper thickness. Then pass the goods through the machine, and follow the before mentioned operations.

To dye alives, bottle greens, purples, browns, cinnamons, or Stuffs. Take common iron liquor, or common-iron liquor with alum dissolved therein, in quantity of each according to the shade of colour wanted, made into a paste or liquid, by adding flour; gum, glue, linseed, or one or more of them as before. Then put the liquor or paste above mentioned into a tub belonging to the machine and pass the goods so intended to be dyed, through the machine. Take them from the machine, and hang them up in a very cool room, where they are to remain they are thoroughly dry. Take cow's-dung, put it into a large copper of hot water, and mix it well together; through which pass the cloth or goods until thoroughly softened, the quantity of dung and time required, being proportioned as before.

The goods after this process being well washed, take a quantity of liquor made from madder, logwood, sumach, fustic, Brazil, woad, quercitron bark, peach wood, or other woods, to produce the colour wanted; or more of them; and if necessary <??> this liquor with water, according to the shade or fulness of colour wanted to be dyed. Then work the goods through this liquor, after which pass them through cold or warm water, according to colour, the proper application of which is well known to dyers, adding a little alum, copper as, or Roman vitriol, or two or more of them first dissolved in water. Then wash them off in warm water and dry them. But if the colour is not sufficiently full, repeat the same operations till it is brought to the shade required.