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Business/Labor Home page | Business Letters, Diaries, etc. | ca 1815: Recipe for dyeing cloth Fancy Blue


For Fancy Blue

 To 20 yds cloth take 1 lb Allum and 4 oz. Copperas dip one hour are and Rence cloth. Clean Copper fill and add 5 lbs Logwood Steap dye dip 15 minuits are and steap dye dip 20 minuits are and boil dye dip 30 minuits are and add 2 oz. Blue Pitriol dip 20 minuits are and Scour in Suds


Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753. Found in the  Edgerton manuscript collection, consisting of about 10,000 individual documents.

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