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Take another little pot of white-wine vinegar, and in it fteep
or temper eight ounces of alum. Put this alum fo tempered
in the other liquor, and ftir it about well with a fpatula.
The fcum or froth which arifes is the Carmine ; take it off
as it rifes, and let it dry. The fame may be done with cochi-
neal inftead of brafil.
Another Carmine. Take three pints of fpring water, which
^as not paffed through leaden pipes j put it into a glazed earthen
pot, and fet it on the fire.
When it is ready to boil, put in half or a quarter of an ounce
bf the grain of cohan or dyer's red, which the feather-dyers ufe,
reduced to a fine powder.
Then boil it for about three quarters of ari our, or till the
fourth part of the water be confumed. Let the fire be of coals.
Then {train this water through a linen cloth into another
well glazed veffe'l, and fet it on the fire till it begins to boil;
then put in an ounce of cochineal, and a quarter of an ounce
of arnotto, both reduced to powder apart; and let this liquor
boil away to one half, or rather till it raifes a black fcum, and
is very red ; for it takes a colour by being boiled.
Then take it off the fire, and ftrew into it half an ounce or
three pinches of roche alum, or Roman alum, pulverifed, which
laft is reddifh and better; and, about half a quarter of an hour
after, ftrain it through a linen cloth into a veffel well glazed,
or you may divide it in feveral fmall Dutch glazed porringers,
in which let it ftand to fettle for twelve or fifteen days, and there
Will appear on the furface a mouldy fkin, which you are to take
off with a fpunge, and expofe the matter underneath to the air.
When the watery part on the top is evaporated, dry the mat-
ter which remains at the bottom, and grind it upon a very hard
and fmooth marble ftone or porphyry, and then fift it through
a very fine fieve.
The quantities of thefe ingredients are not fo fixed to the
proportion before directed, but that you may put in either more
or lefs of them at difcretion, according to the depth or degree
of colour you defire.
If you would have the Carmine redder, you may put in more
arnotto ; if more of a crimfon, more cochineal; but all of them
muff be reduced to powder feparately, and the grain of cohan
or dyer's weed muff fir ft be boiled alone, and the other altoge-
ther as before directed.
CARNATIONS, in miniature. It is the fame with car-
nations and pinks, as with anemonies and tulips (both which
fee) for fome of them are variegated or mixed with feveral co-
lours, and fome of them are of one fingle colour.
The firft are fometirnes ftreaked, flriped? or marked, fome-
G % times
Take another little pot of white-wine vinegar, and in it fteep
or temper eight ounces of alum. Put this alum fo tempered
in the other liquor, and ftir it about well with a fpatula.
The fcum or froth which arifes is the Carmine ; take it off
as it rifes, and let it dry. The fame may be done with cochi-
neal inftead of brafil.
Another Carmine. Take three pints of fpring water, which
^as not paffed through leaden pipes j put it into a glazed earthen
pot, and fet it on the fire.
When it is ready to boil, put in half or a quarter of an ounce
bf the grain of cohan or dyer's red, which the feather-dyers ufe,
reduced to a fine powder.
Then boil it for about three quarters of ari our, or till the
fourth part of the water be confumed. Let the fire be of coals.
Then {train this water through a linen cloth into another
well glazed veffe'l, and fet it on the fire till it begins to boil;
then put in an ounce of cochineal, and a quarter of an ounce
of arnotto, both reduced to powder apart; and let this liquor
boil away to one half, or rather till it raifes a black fcum, and
is very red ; for it takes a colour by being boiled.
Then take it off the fire, and ftrew into it half an ounce or
three pinches of roche alum, or Roman alum, pulverifed, which
laft is reddifh and better; and, about half a quarter of an hour
after, ftrain it through a linen cloth into a veffel well glazed,
or you may divide it in feveral fmall Dutch glazed porringers,
in which let it ftand to fettle for twelve or fifteen days, and there
Will appear on the furface a mouldy fkin, which you are to take
off with a fpunge, and expofe the matter underneath to the air.
When the watery part on the top is evaporated, dry the mat-
ter which remains at the bottom, and grind it upon a very hard
and fmooth marble ftone or porphyry, and then fift it through
a very fine fieve.
The quantities of thefe ingredients are not fo fixed to the
proportion before directed, but that you may put in either more
or lefs of them at difcretion, according to the depth or degree
of colour you defire.
If you would have the Carmine redder, you may put in more
arnotto ; if more of a crimfon, more cochineal; but all of them
muff be reduced to powder feparately, and the grain of cohan
or dyer's weed muff fir ft be boiled alone, and the other altoge-
ther as before directed.
CARNATIONS, in miniature. It is the fame with car-
nations and pinks, as with anemonies and tulips (both which
fee) for fome of them are variegated or mixed with feveral co-
lours, and fome of them are of one fingle colour.
The firft are fometirnes ftreaked, flriped? or marked, fome-
G % times