Paul, Alexander, Instructor in feather dyeing, Frank, Morris · Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. M. Frank · leaf 58
arm water; or if old, dark, faded out colors,pass them through bleaching process of permanganateof potash ; afterwards Iwing careful to rinse all the acidout before oitering bath. Prepare bath by diluting asmall handful of starch in about a gallon of hike warmwater, enter feathers and manipulate… … OSTRICH FEATHER DYEING. 35 until they have assumed a dark sbade of pink ; then addto bath a few drops of diluted aniline brown and asmall pinch of copperas, and enter feathers, lettingthem remain a minute longer. Take feathers out, anddry in the usual way. If a very dark shade is wanted, a few…
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