Household Goods

Preparation of materials for use in the home, including dyes, waterproofing, and ink.

My Grandmothers F: Sear Cloth

A recipe for an oil to be applied to clothes, made from red lead, white lead, bole armoniac (or Armenian bole, a type of clay), and olive oil.
To Make Ink

A method for making ink by steeping galls and iron sulfate in gum arabic, made shiny by the addition of sugar and sack wine.
To Paint Grates Black

A recipe for making a black paint using a red-tinted lead-based pigment
Mr Balls Receipt for making black Ink

A recipe for making black ink using iron galls, gum arabic, and copperas (possibly green vitriol)
In the [Annales] des [Certes] is the following receipt for making a milk white paint

A recipe for making a white paint using lime, milk, linseed oil, Burgundy pitch (a kind of resin), and Spanish white (a chalk white pigment).
Water Proof . – The following is the Chinese method for rendering cloth water-proof:

A recipe and method for waterproofing cloth by mixing melted wax with turpentine.
Patent granted to Mr. Wm Jayne of Sheffield...

A recipe for a preservative for eggs using quicklime, salt, and cream of tartar.
An Important Improvement in Shoes and Boots from the London Chronicle

A method for waterproofing leather shoes using wax, oil, turpentine, and burgundy pitch, used to soften and weatherproof.
For keping Shoos Black

A recipe for making shoe black (keeping shoes black).
To Dy [dye] a Good Red

This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine), soaked in "tap droppings" or dregs.
To Dy [Dye] Blue

This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris.

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