Recipes For Dyeing With Old Fustic
(1) OLD GOLD
Boil the wool with 3 to 4 per cent chrome for 1 to 1-1/2 hours.
Wash, and dye in a separate bath for 1 to 1-1/2 hours at 100°C. with 20 to 80 per cent of old fustic.
(2) OLD GOLD
Mordant with 3 per cent chrome, for 3/4 hour and wash.
Dye with 24 per cent fustic and 4 per cent madder for 45 minutes.
(3) BRIGHT YELLOW
Mordant wool with 8 per cent of stannous chloride for 1 to 1-1/2 hours, and 8 per cent of tartar.
Wash, and dye with 20 to 40 per cent of fustic.
(4) GREENISH YELLOW
Mordant wool with 3 per cent chrome, for 3/4 hour and wash.
Dye with 6 per cent fustic, 33 per cent logwood. Boil 3/4 hour.
(5) YELLOW
Mordant with 25 per cent alum, wash after laying by for 2 days, dye with 5 to 6 oz. fustic to lb.
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