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Black color for dyeing
Take lye made from quicklime and white lead, mix and leave to soak and you will have a dark brown dye, and reiterating the same you will make black. Try other colours with the lye made of lime

In Plictho
21. Very beautiful black
Measure stones of peaches without the almonds and burn them. Make of them ashes and blend with linseed oil. Boil what you wish inside to become very beautiful black.
page 13 of MS, p102 of translation.