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Excerpt from The Dyer's Companion: In Two Parts
If it does not come to workgrhgr take two quarts of unsackedlime, and six quarts of water, putting them into a vessel proper'for the purpose, and stir ring w ell after standing till well settled, take the lie of the lime, and3 rake again, coler close, and let it stand twohours. The symptoms of the dye being fit to work, may be'known by the rising of a line copper -coloylcl scum, on top of the d) e, and likewise, a firie froth rismg; your dye 'will' look' green, and your cloth dipt m it, before it comes to the air, Will look green also.
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