Yellow Shades On Wool
The number of yellow dye-stuffs is very great, and the variety of
tints infinite. Yellow may be dyed with both natural and artificial
dye-stuffs, and the recipes given will include examples showing the
use of both kinds. Speaking generally, yellow dye-stuffs include
amongst them some of the fastest colours known, and there is a larger
proportion of fast yellow colouring matters than of any other class of
dye-stuffs.
#With Acid Yellows.# Bright Yellow.--Make the dye-bath with 1 lb. Fast
Yellow F Y, 10 lb. Glauber's salt, and 2 lb. sulphuric acid, working
at the boil to shade.
Olive Yellow.--Prepare the dye-bath with 1 lb. Azo Carmine, (p. 124)
1-1/2 oz. indigo carmine, 1/2 lb. Fast Yellow, 10 lb. Glauber's salt,
and 2 lb. sulphuric acid, working at the boil to shade.
Maize Yellow.--Prepare a dye-bath with 5 lb. acetate of ammonia,
3 oz. Anthracene Yellow C, 1/4 oz. Diamine Fast Red F. Work for twenty
minutes at the boil, then add 3 lb. bisulphate of soda; work half an
hour longer, and then wash and dry.
Bright Canary.--Prepare a dye-bath with 4 lb. bisulphate of soda,
1/2 lb. Nitrazine Yellow. Heat the bath to about 120 deg. F., enter the
goods and heat up to the boil, and work till the bath is exhausted,
then lift; add to the dye-bath 3 lb. alum, 3 lb. tin spirits; re-enter
the goods, and boil for twenty minutes longer; lift, wash and dry.
Bright Straw.--Dye with 3 oz. Phenoflavine and 20 lb. bisulphate of
soda.
Straw.--Make the dye-bath with 1-1/4 oz. Azo Yellow, 1 dr.
Cyanine B, 1 dr. Chromotrop 2 R, 10 lb. Glauber's salt, and 1 lb.
sulphuric acid.
Greenish Straw.--Dye with 1/4 oz. Cyanine B, 1 oz. Victoria Yellow,
1/4 oz. Chromotrop 2 B, 10 lb. Glauber's salt, and 1 lb. sulphuric
acid.
Olive Yellow.--Mordant with 3 lb. bichromate of potash and 1 lb.
sulphuric acid; dye with 3 lb. Milling yellow O and 1 lb. acetic acid.
Bright Yellow.--A good shade is dyed in a bath of 2 lb. Milling
yellow O, 10 lb. Glauber's salt, and 2 lb. sulphuric acid, working at
the boil.
Olive Yellow.--Dye with 1-1/2 lb. Titan Yellow R, 10 lb. common
salt, and 1 lb. acetic acid; after the colour has fully gone on to the
wool, add to the bath 1-1/2 lb. fluoride of chrome and maintain at the
boil for half an hour; then lift, wash and dry.
Deep Yellow.--The dye-bath is made with 1-1/2 lb. Titan (p. 125)
Yellow R, 10 lb. common salt, and 1 lb. acetic acid, working at the
boil to shade.
Yellow.--A good shade is dyed with 1-1/2 lb. Titan Yellow Y, 10 lb.
common salt, and 1/2 lb. acetic acid, working at the boil to shade.
Golden Yellow.--Mordant with 3 lb. bichromate of potash and 2 lb.
tartar; dye with 1 lb. Anthracene Yellow C.
Deep Golden Yellow.--Make the dye-bath with 3 lb. Anthracene
Yellow C, and 3 lb. bisulphate of soda. Work at the boil for half an
hour, then lift; add 3 lb. fluoride of chrome, re-enter the wool and
work at the boil for another half-hour, then wash and dry.
Deep Olive Yellow.--Mordant with 3 lb. bichromate of potash and
2 lb. tartar; dye with 20 lb. fustic extract. This gives a very deep
shade of olive Yellow.
Bright Lemon Yellow.--Make the dye-bath with 10 lb. Gambine Yellow,
7 lb. alum, and 2 lb. oxalic acid. Enter cold, then slowly heat to the
boil and work to shade; then lift, wash and dry.
Leaf Yellow.--Mordant with 3 lb. bichromate of potash and 1/2 lb.
sulphuric acid; then dye with 2 lb. Gambine Y and 1 lb. Yellow N.
Deep Leaf Yellow.--A somewhat deeper shade than the last is dyed by
first mordanting with 2 lb. bichromate of potash and 1/2 lb. sulphuric
acid, then dyeing with 2 lb. Gambine R and 1 lb. Yellow N.
Lemon Yellow.--Prepare a bath with 40 lb. fustic, 6 lb. alum, 6 lb.
tartar, and 3/4 lb. tin crystals; enter the wool and work at the boil
for one and a half hours, then lift, wash and dry.
Olive Yellow.--Mordant, 3 lb. bichromate of potash and 2 lb. tartar;
dye, 3 lb. extract of fustic.
Deep Lemon.--Mordant, 3 lb. bichromate of potash and 2 lb. tartar;
dye, 1 lb. Alizarine Yellow G G W.
Golden Yellow.--Mordant, 3 lb. bichromate of potash and 1 lb. (p. 126)
sulphuric acid; dye, 10 lb. Alizarine Yellow G G W.
Light Straw.--Make the dye-bath with 3 oz. Anthracene Yellow B N,
5 lb. acetate of ammonia, and 3 lb. bisulphate of soda; work at the
boil to shade, then lift, wash and dry.
Old Gold.--A very fine shade of old gold is obtained by dyeing in a
bath of 3 lb. Anthracene Yellow C, 5 lb. acetate of ammonia, and 3 lb.
bisulphate of soda. Work at the boil for three-quarters of an hour,
then lift; add to the dye-bath 3 lb. fluoride of chrome, re-enter the
wool, and work for one and a half hours longer at the boil; lift, wash
and dry.
Deep Yellow.--Mordant, 3 lb. bichromate of potash and 2-1/2 lb.
tartar; dye, 2 lb. Mordant Yellow D.
Pale Olive Yellow.--Dye with 3 lb. Anthracene Yellow G G, 10 lb.
Glauber's salt, and 2 lb. acetic acid; after the dye-bath is exhausted
of colour add 3 lb. fluoride of chrome, and work at the boil half an
hour longer.
Gold Yellow.--Dye with 3 lb. Anthracene Yellow B N, 10 lb. Glauber's
salt, and 3 lb. acetic acid; after half an hour's boil, add 1-1/2 lb.
bichromate of potash, work for half an hour longer.
Gold Yellow.--Dye with 2 lb. Indian Yellow R, 10 lb. Glauber's salt,
and 2 lb. sulphuric acid.
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