Boil
these materials, put the wool in and leave it there until later. Take
it out and rinse it with salt water, then with fresh water.
112. Another {Recipe).
Pulverize
and cook 4 drachmas of chalcanthum, 4 drachmas of Sinopian earth and 8
drachmas of krimnos. Put the mordanted wool in and it will become a
fine deep red purple.
Sinopian
earth apparently had several meanings. The description of Dioscorides
(Mat. Med. V, 3) is that of an iron ochre although the term sometimes
meant red lead.
113. Another {Recipe).
Dyeing
in purple with herbs. Take and put the wool in the juice of henbane and
luÂpines. The juice should be brought to boiling in water, which
thereby becomes sour. This is the preliminary mordant. Then take the
fruit clusters of rhamus, put water in a kettle and boil. Put the wool
in and it will become a good purple. Lift the wool out, rinse it with
water from a forge, let it dry in the sun and it will be purple of the
first quality.
114. Another {Recipe).
After
the wool has been mordanted then take 20 drachmas of good Sinopian
earth, boil it in vinegar and put the wool in. Add 2 drachmas of
chalcanthum. Lift the wool out, put it in a kettle full of warm water
and leave it there 1 hour. Lift the wool out and rinse it.
115. Dyeing of Various Colors.
To
prepare Phoenician dye. Take and combine heliotrope with alkanet. Lay
them in an earthen vessel and sprinkle them for 3 days with white
vinegar. On the fourth day boil them, with the addition of water, until
these float at the top. If you desire, however, to dye cedar color then
take out the alkanet and boil lightly, but if you wish cherry-red then
add krimnos soured with a little soap. Put the wool in and boil it
together with the substances until it appears to you to be good.
116. Cold Dyeing in Dark Yellow.
Put
1 part of golden litharge {and) 2 parts of quicklime in a vessel and
pour water in until it runs over. Stir until it is mixed and put the
rinsed-out wool in, which after a time receives another color. If you
mix alkanet in with it, the wool becomes better.
117. Dyeing in Scarlet.
Take
the wool and mordant with woad, which dyes blue. Wash and dry it. Then
take and crush kermes in water until it becomes dissolved. Then mix in
rustic archil and boil thus. Put the wool in and it will become scarlet.
The
exact sense of the word "rustic" in the above recipe is, according to
Lager-crantz, that it refers to archil from the country as an inferior
variety.
118. To Produce a Gold Color by Cold Dyeing.
Take
safflower blossom and oxeye, crush them together and lay them in water.
Put the wool in and sprinkle with water. Lift the wool out, expose it
to the air, and use it.
119. To Wash Raw Wool.
The
washing of raw wool is done in the following way. For a mina of wool
take 9 minas of Cimolian earth, 2 kotyles of vinegar, and pour in
water. Wash the wool therein and air thoroughly.
120. Examination of Dyestuffs.
Heavy and dark blue woad is good, but the pure white and light {kind) is not good.
The
examination of Syrian kermes. Take and crush that which is the lighest
and the most finely colored. The black or while-spotted is, however,
poor. Chew into pieces with natron and dissolve up the finely colored.
