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To dye olive, orange, and cinnamon

When blue is combined with red and yellow on cloth, the resulting colour is olive. Wool may be dyed orange, by first dyeing it scarlet, and then yellow. When it is dyed first with madder, the result as a cinnamon colour. Silk is dyed orange by means if carthamus: a cinnamon colour by logwood,

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