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if nothing was to be over it; then heighten the brighteft f
with white and mafticote, and fhade with biftre and white, Of
black, or blue and white, according to the colour you aim at,
and taking away from the livelinefs of the reft by foiling it over,
though that be not altogether necefiary but for the darker parts.
For crape, do as above, only obferve, that you draw the folds
and the borders or edges with little threads alone, upon what is
beneath, which muft firft be finifhed.
When you would water a ftuff of any fort, you muft wave it
with lighter or darker colours, according as what you are upon is
light or fhade.
There is fuch a way of touching your Draperies, fo as to di~
ftinguifh the filken from the woollen ; thefe are more coarfe and
ftiff, the others are finer, and more free or glofly ; but it muft be
remembered, that thefe are effects which depend partly upon the
ftuffitfelf, and partly upon the colour of it.
Of colours for Drapery.
1. For fcarlet garments. Take vermilion deeped with cinna-
bar and heightened with touches of mafticote.
2. For crimfon. Lay on lake very thin, and deepen with
the fame.
3. For purple. Grind lake and fmalt together, or take blue
bice and mix it with red and white lead.
4. For an oriental violet. Grind litmofe, blue fmalt, andce-
rufs, but let the blue predominate in the mixture.
5. For yellow. Take mafticote deepened with brown oker
and red lead.
6. For carnation. Grind cerufs well wafhed with red lead or
cerufs and vermilion.
7. For a ftraw colour. Take mafticote, then white height-
ened with mafticote and deepened with pink; or thus; take red
lead deepened with lake.
8. For yellovvifti. Take thin pink deepened with pink and
green.
9. For a light purple. Mingle cerufs with logwood water, or
take turnfole mingled with a little lake, fmalt, and pica.
10. For blue. Take azure deepened with Indy blue or lake
heightened with white.
11. For a light blue. Take blue bice, heightened with ce-
rufs or fpodium.
12. For a fky colour. Take blue bice and Venice cerufs,
but, if you would have it dark, take fome blue and white.
13. For a pure green. Take verdigreafe, bruife it and fteep
it in mufcadine for twelve hours; then ft rain it into a fhell, to
which add a little fap green, but put no gum thereto.
14. For
if nothing was to be over it; then heighten the brighteft f
with white and mafticote, and fhade with biftre and white, Of
black, or blue and white, according to the colour you aim at,
and taking away from the livelinefs of the reft by foiling it over,
though that be not altogether necefiary but for the darker parts.
For crape, do as above, only obferve, that you draw the folds
and the borders or edges with little threads alone, upon what is
beneath, which muft firft be finifhed.
When you would water a ftuff of any fort, you muft wave it
with lighter or darker colours, according as what you are upon is
light or fhade.
There is fuch a way of touching your Draperies, fo as to di~
ftinguifh the filken from the woollen ; thefe are more coarfe and
ftiff, the others are finer, and more free or glofly ; but it muft be
remembered, that thefe are effects which depend partly upon the
ftuffitfelf, and partly upon the colour of it.
Of colours for Drapery.
1. For fcarlet garments. Take vermilion deeped with cinna-
bar and heightened with touches of mafticote.
2. For crimfon. Lay on lake very thin, and deepen with
the fame.
3. For purple. Grind lake and fmalt together, or take blue
bice and mix it with red and white lead.
4. For an oriental violet. Grind litmofe, blue fmalt, andce-
rufs, but let the blue predominate in the mixture.
5. For yellow. Take mafticote deepened with brown oker
and red lead.
6. For carnation. Grind cerufs well wafhed with red lead or
cerufs and vermilion.
7. For a ftraw colour. Take mafticote, then white height-
ened with mafticote and deepened with pink; or thus; take red
lead deepened with lake.
8. For yellovvifti. Take thin pink deepened with pink and
green.
9. For a light purple. Mingle cerufs with logwood water, or
take turnfole mingled with a little lake, fmalt, and pica.
10. For blue. Take azure deepened with Indy blue or lake
heightened with white.
11. For a light blue. Take blue bice, heightened with ce-
rufs or fpodium.
12. For a fky colour. Take blue bice and Venice cerufs,
but, if you would have it dark, take fome blue and white.
13. For a pure green. Take verdigreafe, bruife it and fteep
it in mufcadine for twelve hours; then ft rain it into a fhell, to
which add a little fap green, but put no gum thereto.
14. For