Prepare your feathers same as for bottle green. Prepare bath by
diluting about one ounce of turmeric in a gallon of boiling water, and
enter feathers, letting them remain in bath about two minutes; after
which take out and rinse in cold water twice. Have boiling a medium
strong bath of logwood, and pass feathers through for a few seconds,
first cooling off temperature of logwood bath a few degrees with cold
water; after which rinse off thoroughly, and prepare a bath of a
quarter of an ounce of bichromate of potash in a gallon of boiling
water, dissolve it thoroughly, and enter feathers; let them remain in
this bath about ten seconds, and take them out and rinse thoroughly in
cold water. Proceed to dilute one teaspoonful of turmeric and a half
teaspoonful of aniline green in a gallon of boiling water, and reduce
temperature a few degrees with cold water. Enter your feathers, and let
them remain in bath about three minutes; then take them out and cool
off a small portion of bath, and add a small handful of starch, and dry
in the usual way.
If found to be too dark, add a few drops of diluted oxalic acid to
starch bath, and pass your feathers through for a few seconds. If found
too light, rinse off the starch in cold water and return to logwood
bath for a few seconds, without increasing the temperature any, and
rinse off and give a weak bath of bichromate of potash, rinse off and
dry.