Tweet
These are a couple of dye recipe's that are from the Richmond Daily Dispatch.Apparently reprinted from other Newspapers. Use at you own risk.:p
April 17, 1862
A cheap dye
A gentlemen has handed us a specimen of cotton yarn colored to represent copperas, which it does very closely. The dye employed is very cheap. It is made of red or black oak bark, the rough outside of which should be fl trimmed off. Make a strong decoct on of the bark by boiling, and to a pot of about ten gallons add a tablespoonful of blue vitriol. The yarn to be colored should be put in and boiled for an hour or two, and then washed as much as you please. The color will ; and the yarn will be found soft and free from the harshness usual in copperas dye.--Salisbury Watchman.
Nov. 22, 1864
Sorgho Dye.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier writes as follows:
"A few days ago I was boiling syrup, when I had one pot idle. I had water put in it, and sent to the field for a small armful of Sorgho sugar seed, just as it was cut off, and put it in the pot to see whether it would boil soft. To my surprise, I found the water became very red, when a thought struck me that it might be used for dyeing, and I put a little wool in it. In about ten minutes I took it out, and found it to be of a beautiful brown color. Enclosed I send a sample to let the public have the benefit of it, that other discoveries or experiments may be made."
Best,
April 17, 1862
A cheap dye
A gentlemen has handed us a specimen of cotton yarn colored to represent copperas, which it does very closely. The dye employed is very cheap. It is made of red or black oak bark, the rough outside of which should be fl trimmed off. Make a strong decoct on of the bark by boiling, and to a pot of about ten gallons add a tablespoonful of blue vitriol. The yarn to be colored should be put in and boiled for an hour or two, and then washed as much as you please. The color will ; and the yarn will be found soft and free from the harshness usual in copperas dye.--Salisbury Watchman.
Nov. 22, 1864
Sorgho Dye.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier writes as follows:
"A few days ago I was boiling syrup, when I had one pot idle. I had water put in it, and sent to the field for a small armful of Sorgho sugar seed, just as it was cut off, and put it in the pot to see whether it would boil soft. To my surprise, I found the water became very red, when a thought struck me that it might be used for dyeing, and I put a little wool in it. In about ten minutes I took it out, and found it to be of a beautiful brown color. Enclosed I send a sample to let the public have the benefit of it, that other discoveries or experiments may be made."
Best,