Nan Thayer Ross

Most of this book is biographical material on Eldress Hester Ann Adams within the context of the Shaker communities in New Hampshire and Maine. The dye recipes are for use on wool, silk, and cotton. Some of the ingredients used are; acetate, alum, carmine, copperas, cream of tartar, chrome,indigo, sugar of lead, madder, potash, purslain, salt-petre, smart weed, verdigris, and various tropical woods.