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To Dye Thick Silks, Satins, Silk Stockings, Sfc. of a Flesh Colour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Dye Thick Silks, Satins, Silk Stockings, Sfc. of a Flesh Colour.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the stockings in soap and water, then rinse in hot water.

  2. If not clean, dissolve the soap in boiling water, cool it, then add the stockings and boil for 20 minutes.

  3. Remove the stockings and rinse in hot water.

  4. In a basin, mix the purple archil with hot water.

  5. Dye the stockings until they reach a half violet or lilac shade, then rinse in cold water.

  6. Hang to dry.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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