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COLORING OR DYEING SKINS AND FURS. 63
able time. Or it may be made more durable where the color of
the flesh side is no object by scraping, washing in soapsuds, and
then putting directly into the tan pit. For ordinary purposes,
rabbit, squirrel, and other small skins can be efficiently preserved
with the hair by the application of powdered alum and fine salt,
put on them when fresh, or if not fresh by dampening them first.
Squirrel skins when wanted without the hair will tan very well in
wheat bran tea, the fat and hair having been previously removed
by soaking in lime water and scraping. Old tea leaves afford
tannin enough for small skins, but they give a color not nearly
so pleasant as bran. Almost any of the barks afford tannin
enough for small skins, willow, pine, poplar, hemlock of course,
sumach, &c.
Coloring or Dyeing Skins and Furs.
Furs are dyed by dealers, to suit some fashion, to conceal defects, or to pass off inferior furs for better ones.
The best way is to brush the dye over the fur with a good
sponge, brushing with the hair. As a matter of course, you can
only dye them of a darker color than they are, and retain the
handsome lustrous look peculiar to fur. They may be bleached,
but the process leaves the fur looking like coarse flax or even
hemp.
Blue.—Sulphate of indigo, (soluble indigo, sold by all druggists,) is the readiest and beat to get a blue with. Furs are never
died blue for sale, for that would be spoiling a white fur, but
sheep-skins are. The skin should be dipped several times in a
bath of hot alum water, allowed to drain, and then dipped into a
solution of sulphate of indigo and water, with a few drops of sulphuric acid added , this gives a pale blue. Aniline blue is very
fine, and dyeing with it is very simple. A solution of the color
in water is made, a hot solution, and the skin put in all at once,
(if a part of the skin % put in first that part will be darkest, so
quick is the absorption of these colors.) Fancy sheep-skin mats,
are colored blue, red, green, and yellow, and have a ready sale
when they are new.
Black.—The best black is obtained by first dyeing the skin a
blue. Then boil \ pound gall nuts, powdered, and one and \
ounces of logwood, in three gallons of water, If the flesh side
| Title | The boys' own book of outdoor sports |
| Creator | John, Uncle |
| Publisher | Hurst & company |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date | [1887?] |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000064 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | COLORING OR DYEING SKINS AND FURS. 63 able time. Or it may be made more durable where the color of the flesh side is no object by scraping, washing in soapsuds, and then putting directly into the tan pit. For ordinary purposes, rabbit, squirrel, and other small skins can be efficiently preserved with the hair by the application of powdered alum and fine salt, put on them when fresh, or if not fresh by dampening them first. Squirrel skins when wanted without the hair will tan very well in wheat bran tea, the fat and hair having been previously removed by soaking in lime water and scraping. Old tea leaves afford tannin enough for small skins, but they give a color not nearly so pleasant as bran. Almost any of the barks afford tannin enough for small skins, willow, pine, poplar, hemlock of course, sumach, &c. Coloring or Dyeing Skins and Furs. Furs are dyed by dealers, to suit some fashion, to conceal defects, or to pass off inferior furs for better ones. The best way is to brush the dye over the fur with a good sponge, brushing with the hair. As a matter of course, you can only dye them of a darker color than they are, and retain the handsome lustrous look peculiar to fur. They may be bleached, but the process leaves the fur looking like coarse flax or even hemp. Blue.—Sulphate of indigo, (soluble indigo, sold by all druggists,) is the readiest and beat to get a blue with. Furs are never died blue for sale, for that would be spoiling a white fur, but sheep-skins are. The skin should be dipped several times in a bath of hot alum water, allowed to drain, and then dipped into a solution of sulphate of indigo and water, with a few drops of sulphuric acid added , this gives a pale blue. Aniline blue is very fine, and dyeing with it is very simple. A solution of the color in water is made, a hot solution, and the skin put in all at once, (if a part of the skin % put in first that part will be darkest, so quick is the absorption of these colors.) Fancy sheep-skin mats, are colored blue, red, green, and yellow, and have a ready sale when they are new. Black.—The best black is obtained by first dyeing the skin a blue. Then boil \ pound gall nuts, powdered, and one and \ ounces of logwood, in three gallons of water, If the flesh side |
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