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§ V.  Composition of Colors, to Dye Skins or Gloves.

XLI.  A lively Isabel.

    To make a lively Isabel color, you must, to a quantity of white, add one half of yellow, and two-thirds of red and yellow.

XLII.  For a pale filbert color.

    1.  Take burnt umber, a little yellow, very little white, and still less red.
    2.  This is made darker by adding a quantity of burnt umber, as much yellow, a little white, and as much red.

XLIII.  For the gold color.

    To much yellow, join a little more red; and this mixture will give you a very fine bright gold color.

XLIV.  For the flesh color.

    To imitate well the complexion, or flesh color, you mix a little white and yellow together, then add a little more red than yellow.

XLV.  The straw color.

    Much yellow; very little white; as little red, and a great deal of gum.

XLVI.  A fine brown.

    1.  Burnt umber;  much black chalk;  a little black, and a little red; will make a fine brown, when well incorporated together.
    2.  The same is made paler, by decreasing the quantity of black chalk, and no black at all in the above composition.

XLVII.  To make a fine musk color.

    Take burnt umber; very little black chalk; little red and a little white.  These ingredients will mixed will produce as fine a musk color as ever was.

XLVIII.  To make a frangipane color.

    1.  This is made with a little umber; twice as much red, and three times as much yellow.
    2.  The paler hue of it is obtained by adding only some white, and making the quantity of red equal to that of yellow.

XLIX.  An olive color.

    To make the olive color, take umber, not burnt; a little yellow; and the quarter part of it of red and yellow.

L.  How to make skins and gloves take these dyes.

    Grind the colors you have pitched upon the perfumed oil of Jessamine, or orange flowers.  Then range the grinded color on a corner of the marble stone.  Grind of gum-adragant, an equal quantity as that of the colors, soaking it all the while with orange flower water.  Then grind both the gum and the color together, in order to incorporate them well.  Put all into a pan, and pour a discretional quantity of water over it, to dilute sufficiently your paste.  Then with a brush, rub your gloves of skins over with this tinged liquor, and hang them in the air to dry.  When dry, rub them with a stick.  Give them again, with the same brush, another similar cost of the same dye, and hang them again to dry.  When dry for this second time, you may dress them, the color is sufficiently fixed, and there is no fear of its ever coming off.

LI.  To varnish a chimney.

    Blacken it first with black and size.  When this coat is dry, lay another of white lead over it, diluted in mere sized water.  This being dry also, have verdigrese diluted and grinded with oil of nuts and a coarse varnish, and pass another coat of this over the white.

 

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