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50079	Mairet, Ethel	A Book on Vegetable Dyes			.txt	text/plain	30317	3353	89	3rd.--The wool is boiled with the mordant and dye in the same bath mordant, dyes a very durable dark brown colour upon white wool or dyeing a kind of purple colour." Another lichen, taken from trees in and old roofs, dyes a fine plum colour, if the wool is mordanted first yields a good brown to boiling water, but this dye appears only to COLD INDIGO VAT FOR DYEING WOOL, SILK, LINEN AND COTTON. vats with Indigo and madder to dye a never-fading dark blue on wool, to 3 hours in a hot solution of Alum; wash in two waters, then boil up well in the dye and boil for ¾ hour, after which take out the wool, Boil wool with 4% of alum for 1 to 2 hours, and dye in a separate wool, previously mordanted with alum, is put into the dye bath with	./cache/50079.txt	./txt/50079.txt