Lead Color.

Take four ounces of red wood, two of logwood, half an ounce of pounded
nut-galls, and quarter of a pound of green copperas; boil them in ten
gallons of water, and strain it; wash the wool or cloth in soap-suds,
put it in, and let it remain till it is as dark as you wish it; dry it
in the sun, and wash it in soap-suds. Sugar paper, boiled in vinegar,
makes a good lead color for stockings.


To Dye Scarlet.

Take one pound of blood root, and one pound of madder, boil them in six
gallons of ley, then stir them three or four times in twenty-four
hours, till there are signs of fermentation. This dyes ten pounds of
cotton or linen.