annotta

The watery decoftion of annotta has a ftrong fmell, and a difagreeable tafte, its colour is of a yellowifh red, it is fomewhat turbid; an alkar line folution changes it to an orange yellow, which is brighter and more pleafing; a fmall quantity of a whitifh fubftance is feparated from it, which remains fufpended in the liquor.

Elements of the Art of Dyeing Claude-Louis Berthollet 1791

To imitate poppy or fire colour, the filk muft have an annotta ground; even deeper than when it is to be dyed with carthamus: after which it is walhed, alumed, and dyed with the brafil-juice, to which a little foap-fuds is commonly added.

Elements of the Art of Dyeing Claude-Louis Berthollet 1791

For five pounds of woolen yarn, have one pound of annotta; dissolve it in boiling water, and put it in a pot of soft water with half a pound of pearl-ash; boil them ten minutes, stirring it well; wet the yarn in soap-suds; put it in, and let it boil twenty minutes; then hang it in the sun, and when dry, if it is not deep enough, dip it in again; and after it is thoroughly dry, wash it in soap and water.

Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea

934 ELEMENTS OF THE When filk is to be dyed poppy or fire colour, it muft be firft fcoured as for white; and muft then have a flight annotta ground in the manner that will be mentioned when treating of that fubftance.

Elements of the Art of Dyeing Claude-Louis Berthollet 1791