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Title
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To Dy[e] a Good Red
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine).
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Transcript
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To Dy a Good Red
[inserted left margin: it will dy [2] pounds & a half of wool] [struck: unintelligible] Take a Quartr of a pound of Mader & a quarter of a pound of Brasell & 2 peny worth of Allom & [use] 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 [Chamberley] if paleer Rench it in faire watter So hang it [out to] dry —
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Contributor
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Ochsner, Elizabeth
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Le, Vincent
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
