Wash and rinse your feathers, after which prepare a bath of one gallon
of boiling water and about one ounce of turmeric and half an ounce of
copperas; enter your feathers and let them remain in bath about two
minutes, more or less, after which take out and rinse twice in cold
water. Meantime have boiling a bath of half a pound of logwood to a
gallon of water, and enter feathers at boiling temperature, letting
them remain in about ten seconds or longer. Should a darker shade be
desired, take out and rinse in cold water, after which dilute a half
teaspoonful of aniline brown in a gallon of boiling water. Reduce
temperature a little with cold water. Enter feathers and let them
remain in about three minutes; then cool off a small portion of the
bath, and add a small handful of starch, pass feathers through and dry.
If a lighter shade is wanted, add a drop of sulphuric acid to the
starch bath and pass feathers through. If the sample to match be more
on the yellow order, about twice the amount of turmeric in the first
bath; and if desired more on the red, use no turmeric, only copperas,
in the first bath. If a darker shade is wanted, let them remain a
longer time than that specified in the logwood bath. Any light color
can be used to make a Bismarck brown; but if very dark colors are used,
it is well to draw off some of the color, doing it in the usual way.
[Illustration: SEA-FOAM--page 70.]
[Illustration: SILVER GRAY--page 26.]
[Illustration: ECRU--page 23.]
[Illustration: TRILEUL--page 58.]