_Turquoise Green_.--Prepare a dye-bath containing 8 oz. Cyanole
Green B and 10 lb. bisulphate of soda. Enter at 130 deg. F., raise to the
boil, boil for three-quarters of an hour, and rinse.
_Slate Green_.--Mordant the wool by boiling for one and a half (p. 135)
hours in a bath containing 3 lb. bichromate of potash, 1-1/4 lb.
Copper sulphate and 2-1/4 lb. tartar; then rinse well, and dye in a
bath containing 2-1/2 lb. Logwood Extract (dry), 1-1/4 lb. Fustic
Extract (dry), and 3 lb. Sumac. Enter the goods in a warm bath, work
for half an hour, then raise to the boil and work for three-quarters
of an hour; lift, and sadden by adding 6 oz. Copperas. After
re-entering the goods, work to shade.
_Olive_.--Boil two hours in a bath consisting of 1-1/2 lb. tin salt,
2-1/2 lb. bichromate of potash, 10 lb. alum and 2-1/2 lb. sulphuric
acid. Then enter in a boiling dye-bath containing 1-1/2 lb. alum,
4 lb. fustic extract and 3-1/2 lb. indigo extract.
_Fulling Fast Olive_.--For one hour upon a bath containing 50 lb.
Fustic, 5 lb. Bluestone, 2 lb. Tartar, 4 lb. Sumac, 1 lb. Copperas;
lift and wash.
_Fast Bright Olive_.--Boil for one hour upon a bath of 50 lb. Fustic,
3 lb. Bluestone, 2 lb. tartar, 1 lb. copperas, 2 oz. indigo extract.
_Yellow Olive_.--Prepare a bath containing 10 lb. Glauber's salt,
1-1/2 lb. Anthracene Yellow B N, 2 lb. extract of indigo, 3 oz. Orange
E N Z, 4 lb. sulphuric acid. Enter yarn at 160 deg. F., give three turns,
raise the temperature slowly to the boil, turn to shade; lift, and
wash.
_Olive Green_.--Mordant with 2 lb. potash bichromate, 1-1/2 lb.
sulphate of copper, 1/2 lb. sulphuric acid. Boil for an hour and a
half. Dye in a bath with 8 lb. Fustic extract, 5 lb. Sumac, 5 lb.
Logwood, at the boil for an hour and a half.
_Olive Bronze_.--Make the dye-bath with 10 oz. Fast Yellow S, 5 lb.
Indigo extract, 5 oz. Orange E N Z, 4 lb. sulphuric acid, 10 lb.
Glauber's salt. Enter yarn at 140 deg. F., work for a few minutes, then
bring slowly to the boil and work to shade.
_Emerald Green_.--Prepare the dye-bath with 1 lb. Acid Green B N, (p. 136)
2 oz. Naphthol Yellow S, 10 lb. Glauber's salt, 2 lb. sulphuric
acid. Enter cold, then raise to the boil and work for a quarter of an
hour; wash and dry.
_Invisible Green_.--First mordant the wool in a bath containing 3 lb.
bichromate of potash, 1-1/2 lb. copper sulphate, 1 lb. sulphuric acid.
Work at the boil for one and a half hours, then dye in a fresh bath
containing 2 lb. Milling Yellow O, 2 lb. Logwood extract, 20 lb.
Glauber's salt. Work at the boil for one and a half hours, then lift,
wash and dry.
_Sea Green_.--Prepare a dye-bath with 5 lb. Glauber's salt, 2 lb.
sulphuric acid, 2 lb. indigo extract, 1/2 per cent. Acid Green blue
shade. Dye as usual.
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