Valuable secrets concerning arts and trades: or, Approved directions, from the best artists : for the various methods of engraving on brass, copper, or steel. Of the composition of by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
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Publisher: Norwich [Conn.]: : Printed by Thomas Hubbard.
Published: 1795-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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whne, and fuch of the other colours as you want t» prcferve pureft and neatcft.

CXXIII. fo take cjfinjlantly a copy from a print > or a

pifiure.

Make a water of ibap and alum, with which wet a cloth or a paper ; lay either on a print or picture, and p&f* it once under the re-ling prefs : then going round the other fide to take it up, you will have a very fin« copy of whatever you (hall have laid it upon.

CXXTV. Dtrfffzem to make the Spanijb carnation.

Take bailard fnfFrori ; wafh, dry, and grind it well. While you grind it, put in four ounces of pearl afhes to every one pound of fafFron. Incorporate them well, both together, and throw it into a double cloth jelly-bag. Then fet half a pint of Spanifh lemon's juice on the fire, and, when juft luke-xvarm, pour it on thefrfFroa in the bag, and lay under it what you want to dye. —The Huff which is to be dyed ought previoufly to have been boiled in alum-water, then rinfed and wiprd between two cloths, as a preparatory procefs to mak* it take the dye the better.

C X X V. To make the Spanifi ladles rouge.

This rouge, is a vermilion, which is carefully lud on a fhcet of p^per, from which, by means of wetting th« tip of your finger with your fpittle> you may then take it off, at will, and rub your cheeks, lips, &c. The me* thod of making it is as follows.

1. Take good fcarlet flocks and fpirit of wine, or, in their (lead, lemon's juice. Boil the whole in an earth en pot, well glazed and well flopped, 'till the Tpirit of wine, or lemon's j uice, has charged itfelf with all the co lour of the fcarkt flocks. Strain this dye through a cloth, and wring it hard to exprefs well all the colour out. Boil it afterwards with a little Arabic water, till the co lour becomes very deep.

2. On half a pound of fcarlet's flocks you muft put four ounces of fpirit of wine, and a fufficient quantity of water, to foak well the flocks. Then, in'the colour you extract from it, put the bulk of a filbert of gum a-.

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