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To dye silk stockings black

These are dyed like other silks, excepting that they must be steeped a day or two in black liquor, before they are put into the black silk dye. At first they will look like an iron grey; but to finish and black them, they must be put on wooden legs, laid on a table, and rubbed with the oily rubber, or flannel, upon which is oil of olives, and then the more they are rubbed the better. Each pair of stockings will require half a table spoonful of oil, at least, and half an hour's rubbing, to finish them well. Sweet oil is the best in this process, as it leaves no disagreeable smell.