The female instructor, or Young woman's companion : being a guide to all the accomplishments which adorn the female character, either as a useful member of society - a pleasing and instructive companion, or a respectable mother of a family. With many pleasing examples of illustrious females. To which are added, a select system of cookery, the art of preserving and pickling, brewing, making wines, family recipes, the management of poultry, dyeing, &c. Directions to servants of every description.

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[1817]
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Credit: The female instructor, or Young woman's companion : being a guide to all the accomplishments which adorn the female character, either as a useful member of society - a pleasing and instructive companion, or a respectable mother of a family. With many pleasing examples of illustrious females. To which are added, a select system of cookery, the art of preserving and pickling, brewing, making wines, family recipes, the management of poultry, dyeing, &c. Directions to servants of every description. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To dye a clear or pleasant light Red. Take half a peck of wheat bran, two ounces of alum, and boil them in four gallons of fair water, then strain out the liquid part through a fine hair sieve; dissolve in it half a pound of alum, and the like quantity of white tartar, and put in the stuff, cloth, &c. intended for colouring, adding three pounds of madder, and perfect the colour in a moderate heat, without boiling. To dye Silk a sanguine Colour. Take a pound of alum, and two pounds of greening weed, bruise them well, and pour upon them fair water; add then half a pound of ground Brazil, heat them over the fire, and put the silk in some part of the liquid matter, suffering it to seethe therein, and so renew it with the remainder, till you find your colour take, and having so done three times, rinse it in lye of oak-bark, or wood-ashes, and afterwards in water. To dye a fair Blue. Take white silk, stuff, or cloth that is white, and soak it in water; then having wrung the water out, add two pounds of woold or woad, a pound of indigo, and three ourices of alum ; and then gently heat and dissolve them in the water, and so dip your materials till you perceive your colour has taken. To dye a purple Colour. Take a silk, stuff, or cloth that has already taken a blue, and dip it in Brazil and alum-water, at moderate heats;, and you will soon perceive the colour answer your expectation. To dye a deep red Carnation. Take white linen and woollen, gall and alum it well, and take the herb called by the Dutch, foli, which is to be found on the banks of ditches, to the quantity of a pound, well dryed; Indian lake, four ounces; Spanish red, two ounces; make of these and alum-water a hot liquor, and dip your materials therein, at gentle heats, three or four times, and it will afford a curious colour. To dye a fair Yellow. Take the stalks, leaves, and seeds, &c. of woad, the roots being cut off, and lay them in soak in lye of wood-ashes, for the space of three hours; after that seethe them into hot water and urine, and heat them up moderately, straining the liquid part through a sieve, adding to every two pounds of woad, two pounds of verdegrease, with the lye already sod, stirring it and mixing it together for the space of three hours, and dip into it very hot at three or four times what you intend to colour.
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