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To dye silks and satins brown in the small way

Fill the copper with river water, when it gently boils, put in a quarter of a pound of chipped fustic, two ounces of madder, one ounce of sumach, and half an ounce of camwood; but if not required to be so red, the cam-wood may be omitted. These should boil, at least, from half an hour to two hours, that the ingredients may be well incorporated. The copper must then be cooled down by pouring in cold water: the goods may then be put in, and simmered gently from half and hour to an hour. If this colour should appear to want darkening, or saddening, it may be done by taking out the goods, and adding a small quantity of old black liquor; a small piece of green copperas may be used: rinse in two or three water, and hang up to dry.