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fine feed lack-varnifh, and a proper pencil, twice or thrice, and
then fet it off or fhadow it at difcretion.
8. You ought not to make any more of this parte than you
can ufe at once, that it may not dry before you ufe it again ; for,
if it be dry, you muff, grind it again, and then it will be as fit
as before.
Nor ought it to be made too weak ; and, if it be, it muff be
flrengthened with more gum water, which you may fully find
out at length by many trials and experiments.
And you will find it is poflible to make a pafte fo ftiff and
tough, that a violent blow with a hammer {hall hardly break or
bruife it.
To fet off'raifed or Embossed Work with black.
1. Having varnifhed and burnifhed your work with lamp-
black, mixed with a little gum water, hardly enough to wet ity
and incorporated with a brufh-pencil with fo much fair watec
added to it, as, with a fmall well pointed pencil, will make itto«
run in fine black frrokes, draw the lineaments and features of
the faces, foldage of garments, veins of leaves, flowers, and feeds4
with the black hatchments of your flowers, bodi-es of trees, &c.
2. And, if you would fpeckle any rocks, firft pafs them over
with the faid black; and, when they are dry, give them two
wafhes with the fecuring varnifh, and then lay on the fpeckles.
But if the places defigned to be fpeckled mould be too flippery,
fo that there is danger ot their Aiding off, in this cafe the greafy
kind of fiipperinefs muff, be taken away by rubbing the places
gently with a foft tripoli cloth.
3. This way of fetting off is more in ufe, than that of a
tracing pencil or breathing on it; not only for raifed or Em-
boffed work, but the flat work too : For, your piece being dry,
flrake it once over with the fecuring varnifh ; and then hatch and
vein it at pleafure with a black lead pencil, and do the fame with
other metals and colours befides gold.
4. For inftance; if a red flower is to be fet off with filver,
firft fecure the red with varnifh ; and, when that is dry, hatch
and vein it with filver j this rule is to be obferved in all cafes,
where one thing is to be wrought upon another, whether colour
upon metal, or metal upon colour; or metal fometimes upon
snetal. /
5. The work being thus, adorned and fet off, if the work be
flat or plain, make ufe of white polifhing varnifh to fecure it,
both as to draught and ground work, which will endure a po-
lifhing.
6. But, if the work be Emboffed or raifed, then the fecuring
varnifh is to be ufed, becaufe Emboffed work will not bear a po-
fine feed lack-varnifh, and a proper pencil, twice or thrice, and
then fet it off or fhadow it at difcretion.
8. You ought not to make any more of this parte than you
can ufe at once, that it may not dry before you ufe it again ; for,
if it be dry, you muff, grind it again, and then it will be as fit
as before.
Nor ought it to be made too weak ; and, if it be, it muff be
flrengthened with more gum water, which you may fully find
out at length by many trials and experiments.
And you will find it is poflible to make a pafte fo ftiff and
tough, that a violent blow with a hammer {hall hardly break or
bruife it.
To fet off'raifed or Embossed Work with black.
1. Having varnifhed and burnifhed your work with lamp-
black, mixed with a little gum water, hardly enough to wet ity
and incorporated with a brufh-pencil with fo much fair watec
added to it, as, with a fmall well pointed pencil, will make itto«
run in fine black frrokes, draw the lineaments and features of
the faces, foldage of garments, veins of leaves, flowers, and feeds4
with the black hatchments of your flowers, bodi-es of trees, &c.
2. And, if you would fpeckle any rocks, firft pafs them over
with the faid black; and, when they are dry, give them two
wafhes with the fecuring varnifh, and then lay on the fpeckles.
But if the places defigned to be fpeckled mould be too flippery,
fo that there is danger ot their Aiding off, in this cafe the greafy
kind of fiipperinefs muff, be taken away by rubbing the places
gently with a foft tripoli cloth.
3. This way of fetting off is more in ufe, than that of a
tracing pencil or breathing on it; not only for raifed or Em-
boffed work, but the flat work too : For, your piece being dry,
flrake it once over with the fecuring varnifh ; and then hatch and
vein it at pleafure with a black lead pencil, and do the fame with
other metals and colours befides gold.
4. For inftance; if a red flower is to be fet off with filver,
firft fecure the red with varnifh ; and, when that is dry, hatch
and vein it with filver j this rule is to be obferved in all cafes,
where one thing is to be wrought upon another, whether colour
upon metal, or metal upon colour; or metal fometimes upon
snetal. /
5. The work being thus, adorned and fet off, if the work be
flat or plain, make ufe of white polifhing varnifh to fecure it,
both as to draught and ground work, which will endure a po-
lifhing.
6. But, if the work be Emboffed or raifed, then the fecuring
varnifh is to be ufed, becaufe Emboffed work will not bear a po-