To Dye Claret
Boil two handfuls of red-wood, or ground Brazil-wood, for an hour, with
a handful of log-wood; then take a table-spoonful of oil of vitriol, and
put it into half a tea cup of cold water; and when the dye-pot is a
little cold, add it to the liquor, stir it, and put it on with the
hackles or hair, and boil it gently for two hours; take out your
material, and put it into cold water; add to the dye it comes out of a
little copperas, and a small quantity of pearlashes, about the size of a
nut of copperas, and a quarter that size of the ashes; put in your
hackles or material again, and when the proper shade is obtained, rinse
and wash well, and finish in urine, which brightens them, and your
colour is good.