Excerpt from Elements of the Art of Dyeing, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Description of the Art of Bleaching by Oxymuriatic Acid
Hirdly, After the metallic or earthy solution aforesaid has been printed, stamped, pencilled, or otherwise ap plied to the cloth, ‘as before directed, and is sufficiently dry, immerse the cloth’in the solution of oxymuriatic acid, combined with the alkaline salt of potash or soda, or, which I greatly prefer, with calcareous earth or lime, wheh tthe acid of the metallic or earthy solution which has been applied to parts of the, cloth, will immediately $8126 upon and combine with the alkaline salt or earth with which the oxymuriatic acid has been mixed or com bined, and disengage that acid, which will almost instan taneouslyr deprive of their colour those parts of the cloth to Which the said earthy or metallic salt has been applied.
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