All light colors, such as light blues, pinks, drabs, yellows, etc.,
that you are desirous of making old gold need but to be washed with
soap and hot water prior to entering in bath. Prepare your bath with
two ounces of turmeric and one gallon of boiling water, more or less
matters not. Enter your feathers, and let them remain in bath about
two minutes, after which add a small pinch of copperas, about the size
of a bean. Let your feathers remain in bath about one minute longer,
after which take feathers from bath and add thereto a few drops of
diluted Bismarck brown; let them remain in bath about one minute
longer; take them out, cool off a small portion of the bath with cold
water, add a small handful of starch, pass your feathers through and
dry. If wanted a very dark shade of gold, a few drops of diluted
logwood added to bath will have the desired effect; and if wanted
lighter, a smaller quantity of copperas in bath.
If the shade be found entirely too dark for sample, a solution of
oxalic acid in luke warm water will draw off a portion of the color and
brighten what is left. If wanted a very yellowish shade of gold, use
more turmeric, less copperas and no logwood, and be particular to have
your bath at all times at a boiling temperature.
[Illustration: SLATE--page 47.]
[Illustration: GENDARME BLUE--page 57.]
[Illustration: FELT DRAB--page 46.]
[Illustration: GARNET--page 40.]