Regency Household: DIY Dyes

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DYEING A FEW receipts for Dyeing on a small scale will be found very ser viceable especially in the country where regular dyers are not at hand The articles for the respective colours are merely given as the depth or shade must be at the discretion of the operator Lilac Archil a root to be bought at the druggists The colour which is very powerful is extracted by boiling Nankeen Boil equal quantities of Spanish arnatto and pearl ashes in water till dissolved Blue Indigo is generally used but as its preparation is not so simple as others it will be better to purchase a bottle of Blue Dye Yellow Fustic chips weld or dyer's weed turmeric or Dutch pink Green may be produced by mixing the requisite portion of Blue with either of the the preceding Red Archil madder cochineal and Brazil wood are em ployed to give silk a bloom else it is only used by itself when lilac is wanted Poppy Cherry Rose and Flesh colour are given to silk by means of carthamus by keeping the article as long as it extracts colour in a solution of carthamus with pearl ash into which as much lemon juice as gives it a fine cherry red colour has been poured Scarlet Silk cannot be dyed a full scarlet but a colour ap proaching to it may be given to silk by first dyeing it in crimson then dyeing it with carthamus and lastly yellow without heat Black Logwood and green copperas are commonly used but the colour is improved by first boiling the article in a decoc tion of galls and alder bark If previously dyed blue or brown by means of walnut peels it will be still better Orange Carthamus Cinnamon by logwood Brazil wood and fustic mixed together Brown Walnut peels or the bark of birch or yellow red and black Olives are made from blue red and brown and by giving a greater shade of red the slated and lavender greys are made Sage Slate and Lead Greys are made from the red and black Purples are made of red and blue The most elegant varieties of colour are produced by Mademoiselle Storey's Dyeing Balls although they are expen sive for common use The Servants’ Guide and Family Manual: with New and Improved Receipts … Adapted to the Duties of All Classes of Servants … To which is Added an Appendix, Etc. (1830). United Kingdom: (n.p.).

Adds for Mademoiselle Story and a competitor were printed in the advertisement section of the August 1816 La Belle Assemblée.

MADEMOISELLE N STORY The original and real FRENCH DYING BALL Manufacturer is removed to No 44 Rathbone place Entrance at the private door The unexampled repute of Mademoiselle N French Dying Balls which were first introduced this country by herself before which no such article was known in England has caused spurious imita tions she wishes to remind the Public that the imi tators finding they cannot sufficiently impose on them in regular business have even the effrontery of copying her advertisements Mademoiselle N Story begs the Public will particularly notice that the only Genuine French Dying Balls are stamped with her name and that she has no connection with any other house As usual Mademoiselle N Story continues to make a public day on Tuesdays and Fridays expressly for Ladies to be convinced of the true value of her Balls NB The only Depot for the true and genuine EAU DE COLOGNE of Jean Marie Farina is also at Mademoiselle Story's Where may also be had EAU DU DOCTEUR Molinier's celebrated remedy for the Toothache which it immediately and radically cures 328

EVERY LADY HER OWN DYER ECONOMY AND ELEGANCE COMBINED J FOSTER late Partner with N STORY the only manufacturer of the improved FRENCH DYING BALLS for Dying Silk Satin Muslin Furniture Ribbands & c equal to new without any trouble in five minu es J FOSTER having by numberless experiments for the last two years brought the article to the highest perfection begs the Public when they pur chase to ask for FOSTER'S otherwise they will not have the improved FRENCH DYING BALLS One Ball will dye a Dress of seven yards of Mus lin Silk & c price 1s and 28 each Ball Also im proved BLUE for Linen and Balls for colouring Silk Stockings 18 each The method of using the French Dying Balls is shewn every day at the ori ginal Manufactory No 39 Rathbone place Oxford street J FOSTER particularly recommends his VEGE TABLE ROUGE or ROUGE DE SULTANE as producing a more natural Bloom to any now in use NB A superb assortment of beautiful French Flowers French Kid Gloves at is 6d per pair and every article of Haberdashery Hosiery and Gloves remarkably cheap The Depot for the Genuine EAU DE COLOGNE distilled by Jean Marie Farina 352

Story heavily advertised in the 1810s:

EVERY LADY HER OWN DYER! ‘ VIADEMOISF.LLE N.STORY’s(from Paris,)FRENCH J. DYING BALLS, of all colours; by which gowns, | cloaks, spencers, farniture, muslin, or any article of dress, | may bedyed in five minutes, without taking any part to pieccs. price ‘.;s. each ball. Also, Coloured Balls for Silk Stockings, price Is. Caution.— The unexampled repute of Mademoiselle N. Story’s celebrated French Dying Balls, has caused spurious “imitations, of which many complaints have already heenmade, she rmreclfully informs the public, that the real French Dying Balls arc manufactured solely by herself, and none are genuine, but such as have her name stamped on them, she being the original inventor, and approved of by the National Committee o? Arts and Manufactures at Paris. Sold l"? appointment by Mr. Drakard, Stamford, Uppingham, and Bourn; and by Mrs. Dixon, Bridge-street, Boston, wheie specimens may be seen.Drakard’s Stamford News – Friday 09 December 1814

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