are
well mixed. Rinse the wool out beforehand and now put it in. After a
time it indeed gains another color, so that it appears as if this were
natural and wonderful.
131. Dissolving of Archil.
Take
and wash archil properly, air it and lay it aside. Then take and cook
bean chips in considerable water. When they are well cooked then mix
archil with the water from the bean chips. When you let the archil
become cold together with this, then you will dissolve it in this
manner.
132. Dissolving of Alkanet.
Take
decorticated and pulverized alkanet and add the interior of Persian
nuts. Pulverize these again and add a little lamellose alum. Grind
everything together while moistening with water. Make a lump out of it,
place it aside and leave it to imbibe color. Then take a vessel of
water, put the lump in the water, stir up and leave it unbroken. Put
your finger in and if the color is beautiful then use it.
133. Preparing Genuine Purples.
Iron
rust, roasted misy, and pomegranate blossom adapt themselves to
mordanting in water and make it possible to give the wool a good deep
purple color in 4 hours.
134. Another (Recipe).
Let
iron rust soak in vinegar for as many days as is necessary. Then
mordant the wool in this liquor, which should be cold. Then boil
krimnos and put the mordanted wool in.
135. From Book 3 of Africanus.
Mordanting
for any color is done in the following way. First the animal, or else
likewise only the wool is washed; then one can allow the mordanting
agent upon it. One should then dissolve alum in vinegar and coat the
wool, which one desires to dye, with it. After drying in the sun it is
washed, and when it is freed from its moisture admit it to any
coloring. One must pay attention to that which is mordanted for a day
and a night during the mordanting.
136. Dyeing of Colors.
Lime,
which is mixed and ground with litharge, produces many colors, yet in
such a manner that the wool does not retain them. First, milk-white;
then natural; and then deep by means of cold dyeing.
137. Mordanting for Every Color Except Purple. Dissolve alum in vinegar, add raw misy, and use it.
138. Mordanting for Purple.
When
you mordant for purple, then put in pure sulphur in lumps in addition,
so that the purple (by trial) gains a brilliant shade; but in case it
does not become bright (it is) because it contains something related
with what one tests it with.
139. Dyeing of Colors.
By
celandine one means a plant root. It dyes (a) gold color by cold
dyeing. Celandine is costly, however. You should accordingly use the
root of the pomegranate tree and it will act the same. And if wolf's
milk is boiled and dried it produces yellow. If, however, a little
verdigris is mixed with it, it produces green; and safflower blossom
likewise.
140. Dissolving of Alkanet.
Alkanet
is dissolved with the root of henbane. Some cook it with the root of
the mulberry tree, others likewise with the root of the caper bush.
Some cook alkanet with lentils, others with pellitory root.
