Title

To Dy [dye] a Good Red

Date

1694/1795

Description

This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine), soaked in "tap droppings" or dregs.

Transcript

[inserted left margin: it will dy [2] pounds & a half of wool] [struck: illegible] Take a Quartr of a pound of Mader & a quarter of a pound of Brasell & 2 peny worth of Allom & us[e] them thus, To 2 pound of wool Cleane picked put as much Tap dropins or soure beare as will Cover youre wool & put in youre Alom let it boyle a quarter of an oure Then take it oute & Rench it in water Then have youre pan Made Cleane & put in fresh tap drepins, as much as will Cover your wool & when its at boyleing put in youre Madder & stir it then — youre Brasell & stir it a litele & then put in youre wool by pece & pece, when its Well diped in boyled in it then put to it a Gallon of olde Chamberly then it you [text loss] [sh]uld have it a deeper Couller Rench it in Cham[text loss]ly if paleer Rench it in faire watter So hang it [out to] dry

Subject

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See all items with this valuemadder (Rubia tinctorum)

See all items with this valuebrazilwood dye

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Contributor

Ochsner, Elizabeth

Grimm, Stephanie

Le, Vincent

Source

Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Publisher

George Mason University Libraries

Rights

Public domain. There are no known restrictions.