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To dye bristles or feathers green
Take of verdigris and verditer, each 1 ounce, gum water 1 pint; mix them well, and dip the bristles or feathers, they having been first soaked in hot water, into the said mixture.
Blue.--Take of indigo and risse, each 1 ounce, and a piece of alum the size of a hazel nut; put them into gum water, and dip the materials into it hot, hang them up to dry, and clap them well that they may be open, and by changing the colours, the aforesaid materials may be in this manner dyed of any colour; for purple use lake and indigo; for carnation, vermillion and smalt. Red.--Take an ounce ef Brazil wood in powder, half an ounce of alum, a quarter of an ounce of vermillion, and a pint of vinegar, boil them up to a moderate thickness, and dip the bristles or feathers, they having been first soaked in hot water, in to the said mixture.