The Leyden and Stockholm Papyri - University of Cincinnati

cedure for mordanting with urine. Next, unravel it. Rinse it out
with water, then with salt water, and lay it aside.
103. (No Title)
For a stater of wool take a kotyle of urine (and) put in the bowl
with the urine and mix there, 4 drachmas of alkanet bark, 1
drachma of native soda (and) 1 drachma of raw Cyprian misy until
it appears to you to be good. However, take away the first scum,
which is white and untouched by the mixture. But when the essences
of the substances appears to have gone from them, then lift
the basket up and press it out properly in the basin. Throw the
substances away, but put the mordanted wool in and produce (the)
purple on it. Make a test beforehand (that is), put a flock of wool in
underneath (the surface) with the hand and look at it. The vessel in
which the boiling is done should. however, on account of the
frequent boiling over, contain sixfold (the volume). When the wool
is suitable then hang and drain it until you have obtained the luster.
104. Collection of Woad
Cut off the woad and put it together in a basket in the shade. Crush
and pulverize, and leave it a whole day. Air thoroughly on the
following day and trample about in it so that by the motion of the
feet it is turned up and uniformly dried. Put together in baskets lay
it aside. Woad, thus treated, is called charcoal.
The last word in the recipe probably referred to its appearance. It
occurs again in the title of No. 106.
105. Dyeing in Dark Blue
THE STOCKHOLM PAPYRUS
Put about a talent of woad in a tube, which stands in the sun and
contains not less than 15 metretes, and pack it in well. Then pour
urine in and the liquid rises over the wood and let it be warmed by
the sun, but on the following day get the woad ready in a way so
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