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70 B R O
of white linen, and let it dry in the fhade on new-baked tiles,
and you will have a molt admirable yellow for painting.
Adrian BROWER, born in the year 1608, a fcholar of
Frans Halls, lived at Antwerp, excellent at boors and drolls,
died in 1638, aged thirty years.
Spanijh BROWN, is a dirty Brown colour, but of great ufe ;
to fhadow vermilion, or lay upon a dark ground behind a pic-
ture. You may fhadow yellow berries with it, in the darkeft
places, when you want lake or thick red ink ; but do not co-
lour garments with it, unlefs it be old men's gowns. It is beft
and brighter! when calcined red hot; but it muft not be burnt
for colouring any hare, horfe, dog, &c. but, for other ufes, it
is beft calcined or burnt ; as for colouring pofts, bodies of trees,
timber-work, or anv dark ground in a picture.
The method of dying Browns. Take a fufficient quantity of
water, put it into the copper, and put of red wood ground and
nut-galls bruifed, of each twenty ounces; boil them together,
and enter twenty yards of broad-cloth, boiling it for two hours
and a rudf, and keep cooling it with a cooler, for fear of fpot-
ting ; then take it up and air it: Then put in fixteen ounces of
copperas, and enter the cloth again, when it is almoft ready to
boil again, and handle it, letting it boil half an hour, and then
cool it. If you would have the colour fadder, put in more cop-
peras.
To dye a fad Brown7. Firft infufe the cloth or fluff to be
dyed in a fixong tincture of hermodactyls; then put faffron and
afhes in a bag ftratum fupcr ftratum, upon which put water,
two parts, mixed with vinegar, one part; ftrain out the water
and vinegar, being thoroughly hot, fifteen or fixteen times. Li
this lixiviate tincture of faffron, put the former matter to be
dyed, letting it lie a night; then take it out, and, without wring-
ing, hang it up to dry ; repeat this working the fecond and third
times.
To dye a Brown tawny, or iron-rvjl colour. Make a firong
decoction of walnut-tree leaves in fair water ; then put in the
matter you would have dyed, and boil k fome hours with the
leaves in the faid liquor, and, when it comes out, it will be ex-
actly of a tawny-brown colour.
To make the colour called the London Brown. Firft dye twenty
yards of cloth of a bright blue ; then take ftale, clear liquor
made of wheat bran a fufficient quantity, a quarter of a pound
of ground logwood, and of alum two pounds and a half; mix
and boil the cloth two hours and a half, and then cool it; after-
wards take frefh liquor make of wheat bran and clear, to which
put two pounds and a half of madder, and handle the cloth ;
let it have a quick fire to a boiling, then cool it; after which,
take
of white linen, and let it dry in the fhade on new-baked tiles,
and you will have a molt admirable yellow for painting.
Adrian BROWER, born in the year 1608, a fcholar of
Frans Halls, lived at Antwerp, excellent at boors and drolls,
died in 1638, aged thirty years.
Spanijh BROWN, is a dirty Brown colour, but of great ufe ;
to fhadow vermilion, or lay upon a dark ground behind a pic-
ture. You may fhadow yellow berries with it, in the darkeft
places, when you want lake or thick red ink ; but do not co-
lour garments with it, unlefs it be old men's gowns. It is beft
and brighter! when calcined red hot; but it muft not be burnt
for colouring any hare, horfe, dog, &c. but, for other ufes, it
is beft calcined or burnt ; as for colouring pofts, bodies of trees,
timber-work, or anv dark ground in a picture.
The method of dying Browns. Take a fufficient quantity of
water, put it into the copper, and put of red wood ground and
nut-galls bruifed, of each twenty ounces; boil them together,
and enter twenty yards of broad-cloth, boiling it for two hours
and a rudf, and keep cooling it with a cooler, for fear of fpot-
ting ; then take it up and air it: Then put in fixteen ounces of
copperas, and enter the cloth again, when it is almoft ready to
boil again, and handle it, letting it boil half an hour, and then
cool it. If you would have the colour fadder, put in more cop-
peras.
To dye a fad Brown7. Firft infufe the cloth or fluff to be
dyed in a fixong tincture of hermodactyls; then put faffron and
afhes in a bag ftratum fupcr ftratum, upon which put water,
two parts, mixed with vinegar, one part; ftrain out the water
and vinegar, being thoroughly hot, fifteen or fixteen times. Li
this lixiviate tincture of faffron, put the former matter to be
dyed, letting it lie a night; then take it out, and, without wring-
ing, hang it up to dry ; repeat this working the fecond and third
times.
To dye a Brown tawny, or iron-rvjl colour. Make a firong
decoction of walnut-tree leaves in fair water ; then put in the
matter you would have dyed, and boil k fome hours with the
leaves in the faid liquor, and, when it comes out, it will be ex-
actly of a tawny-brown colour.
To make the colour called the London Brown. Firft dye twenty
yards of cloth of a bright blue ; then take ftale, clear liquor
made of wheat bran a fufficient quantity, a quarter of a pound
of ground logwood, and of alum two pounds and a half; mix
and boil the cloth two hours and a half, and then cool it; after-
wards take frefh liquor make of wheat bran and clear, to which
put two pounds and a half of madder, and handle the cloth ;
let it have a quick fire to a boiling, then cool it; after which,
take