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338 FLO
the faffron in a clean veiTel; and after that, if it be necefTary, r*
may be rubbed again.
When all this has been done, divide the faffron into two parts,
and take a bag fo thick that the pot-afhes cannot get through,
when it is tied up ; put one part of the faffron into this bag, and
pour clear water upon it in the kettle, till the ftxength of the faf-
fron is boiled out; then, for every pound of filk, take half a pint
of lime juice, and divide that alfo into two parts, and to each
part of faffron add one part of lime juice ; then take the dry filk,
and ftir it up and down in the kettle, in which the loofe part of
the faffron is, for the fpace of an hour ; then let it be very well
wrung, and paffed through the kettle where the bag is, and for
an hour continually ftirred ; then let it be wrung out, and dried
in a dark place, and not in a clear light, and it will be of the
beautiful colour defired.
To make FLOCK cloth hangings. Spread coarfe canvafs upon
an even floor or table, and having flocks or fhreds of woollen
ground as fmall as dull, and the cloth being fized over with good
Itrong fize, while it is wet, fift the Flocks through a fine fieve,
which when you have done, run a roller of wood or iron over
the piece to prefs them down clofe, and fo fuffer them to dry in
the made, left the fun or fire parch them or make them crack ;
and, when they are dry, brufh them over lightly with alum wa-
ter, and fo draw your deflgn with black and red lead, charcoal-
black, or any other colour; and it will at a diftance look like
tapeltry, and be very lading in a room where no great fires are
made.
FLORA, the goddefs of flowers, is reprefented in a black
mantle.
Francis FLORIS, born in the year 1520, fcholar of Lambert
Lombard, and ftudied Michael Angelo ; lived at Antwerp and
in Italy, excelled in hiftory, died in the year 1570, aged fifty
years.
FLOWERS. It is moil delightful to paint Flowers, not on-
ly becaufe of their Iuftre, but alfo becaufe they take up but lit-
tle time to do them ; for it is all pleafure and no trouble. You
fpoil a face if you make one eye a little higher than the other,
if you make a fmall nofe or a large mouth, and fo on of the other
features : But the fear of thefe proportions never troubles the
mind when you are about Flowers ; for, except they be quite out
of the way indeed, you fpoil nothing, and accordingly moft of
the quality, who apply themfelves to painting, concern them-
felves with nothing but Flowers. You mull however learn to
copy a little exactly; and for this branch of miniature, as well
as for the reft, I refer to nature as your only guide ; work then
after natural Flowers, and fearch for their tints and various co-
3 lours
the faffron in a clean veiTel; and after that, if it be necefTary, r*
may be rubbed again.
When all this has been done, divide the faffron into two parts,
and take a bag fo thick that the pot-afhes cannot get through,
when it is tied up ; put one part of the faffron into this bag, and
pour clear water upon it in the kettle, till the ftxength of the faf-
fron is boiled out; then, for every pound of filk, take half a pint
of lime juice, and divide that alfo into two parts, and to each
part of faffron add one part of lime juice ; then take the dry filk,
and ftir it up and down in the kettle, in which the loofe part of
the faffron is, for the fpace of an hour ; then let it be very well
wrung, and paffed through the kettle where the bag is, and for
an hour continually ftirred ; then let it be wrung out, and dried
in a dark place, and not in a clear light, and it will be of the
beautiful colour defired.
To make FLOCK cloth hangings. Spread coarfe canvafs upon
an even floor or table, and having flocks or fhreds of woollen
ground as fmall as dull, and the cloth being fized over with good
Itrong fize, while it is wet, fift the Flocks through a fine fieve,
which when you have done, run a roller of wood or iron over
the piece to prefs them down clofe, and fo fuffer them to dry in
the made, left the fun or fire parch them or make them crack ;
and, when they are dry, brufh them over lightly with alum wa-
ter, and fo draw your deflgn with black and red lead, charcoal-
black, or any other colour; and it will at a diftance look like
tapeltry, and be very lading in a room where no great fires are
made.
FLORA, the goddefs of flowers, is reprefented in a black
mantle.
Francis FLORIS, born in the year 1520, fcholar of Lambert
Lombard, and ftudied Michael Angelo ; lived at Antwerp and
in Italy, excelled in hiftory, died in the year 1570, aged fifty
years.
FLOWERS. It is moil delightful to paint Flowers, not on-
ly becaufe of their Iuftre, but alfo becaufe they take up but lit-
tle time to do them ; for it is all pleafure and no trouble. You
fpoil a face if you make one eye a little higher than the other,
if you make a fmall nofe or a large mouth, and fo on of the other
features : But the fear of thefe proportions never troubles the
mind when you are about Flowers ; for, except they be quite out
of the way indeed, you fpoil nothing, and accordingly moft of
the quality, who apply themfelves to painting, concern them-
felves with nothing but Flowers. You mull however learn to
copy a little exactly; and for this branch of miniature, as well
as for the reft, I refer to nature as your only guide ; work then
after natural Flowers, and fearch for their tints and various co-
3 lours