The Leyden and Stockholm Papyri - University of Cincinnati

have boiled. Take it out and let it cool off. Brighten the color with
limewater.
99. Another (Recipe)
Phrygian stone is roasted and boiled. The wool is put in and left
there until it becomes cold. Then lift it out, place in another vessel
1 part of archil and 1 part of amaranth blossoms, boil it again, put
the wool in mid let it become cold there. Lift it out and rinse it with
salt water.
100. Another (Recipe)
THE LEYDEN & STOCKHOLM PAPYRI
To dye with mulberries. Take and crush unripe bunches of grapes
and mordant the wool therein for 3 days. On the fourth day put this
grape juice in another pot and boil the wool therein, but when it
boils lift it out, rinse it with water and let it become cold. Then take
juice of mulberries and boil up until it boils twice. Put the wool in
and let it become cold therein and it will be a fine excellent purple.
101. Cold Dyeing of Purple Which Is Done in the True Way
Keep this as a secret matter because the purple has an extremely
beautiful luster. Take scum of woad from the dyer, and a sufficient
portion of foreign alkanet of about the same weight as the scum –
the scum is very light – and triturate it in the mortar. Thus dissolve
the alkanet by grinding in the scum and it will give off its essence.
Then take the brilliant color prepared by the dyer – if from kermes
it is better, or else from krimnos – heat, and put this liquor into half
of the scum in the mortar. Then put the wool in and color it unmordanted
and you will find it beyond all description.
102. Dyeing in Good Purple
Take the wool and clean with soap weed. Then mordant it in
filtered limewater. Boil it then in alum and water. This should,
however, be sharp acetous alum. Then boil it according to the pro-
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