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To dye, crimson, red, orange, or yellow

Take red liquor, such as is generally made from alum, and dilute it with water according to the strength or shade of colour wanted to dye, bringing it to the consistency of a paste or liquid, as before described. Then pass the cloth through the machine, which being dried in a cool room, pass it through the operations of dunging and washing as before. Take a quantity of liquor, made from cochineal, madder, peach-wood, Brazil, logwood, woad, fustic, sumach, or any two or more of them proportioned in strength to the shade or colour wanted to dye, and work the goods through this liquor till they are brought to the shade of colour required; after which wash them in cold or warm water, and dry them.

To dye cotton wool, diu<??> silk, with Prussian blue. Immerse the cotton into a large tub of water slightly acidulated and charged with prussiate of potass<??>. These sorts of stuffs dyed in Prussian blue, and then in olive transformed into green, are particularly sought after in trade. By processes analagous to those employed for cotton stuffs, the inventor has obtained the same shades and colours, on samples of silk; and for many years, he has even succeeded in fixing, Prussian blue on wool; and in producing on cloth the same shades as on cotton and silk.