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G R E 403
;appear perfectly Green ; though, when viewed with a micro-
fcope, we may obferve a chequer of blue and yellow.
The dyers make divers fhades or cafts of Green, as light
Green, yellow Green, grafs Green, laurel Green, fea Green,
dark Green, parrot Green, and celaden Green.
All the Greens are firft. dyed in blue, then taken down with
wood, verdigreafe, &c. and then greened with the weed, there
being no one ingredient that will give Green alone.
Mountain Green or Hungary Green, is a fort of greenifh pow-
der, found in little grains like fand, among the mountains of Ker-
nanfent in Hungary, and thofe of Moldavia.
Though fome are of opinion that this mountain Green is fac-
titious, and the fame with what the ancients called flos seris,
prepared by cafting water, or rather wine, on copper, red-hot
from the furnace, and catching the fumes thereof on copper-plates
laid over for that purpofe ; or by difTolving copper-plates in wine,
much after the fame manner as in making verdigreafe.
Painters make ufe of this colour for a grafs Green.
It is fometimes counterfeited by grinding verdigreafe with
cerufs.
Greens are allowed by all perfons to depend upon the yellow
and blue, and any Green colour, whatever you pleafe, may be
made with them.
Gamboge is one of the firft yellows, which may be made to
produce five or fix forts of Green with verdigreafe, according as
the gamboge is in the greater or lefler proportion ; if it abounds,
it will make a tolerable oak Green, and, being mixed with a
greater quantity of verdigreafe, it will make a fine grafs Green.
But the yellow, which fome prefer before all others, is made
of French berries, which is either deeper or fainter, according as
the liquor they ar§ boiled in is more or lefs {rained by them ; if it
be very=thin, it makes a good glaze all over the verdigreafe, and,
as it approaches nearer to Dutch pink or gall.(lone, commands
almoft any colour we want; being agreeably mixed with the
tranfparent verdigreafe, and is ftil! transparent.
In like manner a yellow, drawn from the roots of barberries,
and alfo that drawn from the roots of the mulberry-tree, will, in
a great meafure, produce the like efFecb, being mixed with the
tranfparent verdigreafe.
As for verdigreafe itfelf, it produces a fine bluifh Green, flows
readily in the pencil, and mav even ferve as an ink to write with.
For the manner of preparing the tranfparent verdigreafe. See
COLOUR.
Sap Green, is a colour like that of an oak-leaf, if it be ufed
thin with common water, for this wants no gum ; but, if it be
ufed ftrong, will produce as dark a Green as any,
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;appear perfectly Green ; though, when viewed with a micro-
fcope, we may obferve a chequer of blue and yellow.
The dyers make divers fhades or cafts of Green, as light
Green, yellow Green, grafs Green, laurel Green, fea Green,
dark Green, parrot Green, and celaden Green.
All the Greens are firft. dyed in blue, then taken down with
wood, verdigreafe, &c. and then greened with the weed, there
being no one ingredient that will give Green alone.
Mountain Green or Hungary Green, is a fort of greenifh pow-
der, found in little grains like fand, among the mountains of Ker-
nanfent in Hungary, and thofe of Moldavia.
Though fome are of opinion that this mountain Green is fac-
titious, and the fame with what the ancients called flos seris,
prepared by cafting water, or rather wine, on copper, red-hot
from the furnace, and catching the fumes thereof on copper-plates
laid over for that purpofe ; or by difTolving copper-plates in wine,
much after the fame manner as in making verdigreafe.
Painters make ufe of this colour for a grafs Green.
It is fometimes counterfeited by grinding verdigreafe with
cerufs.
Greens are allowed by all perfons to depend upon the yellow
and blue, and any Green colour, whatever you pleafe, may be
made with them.
Gamboge is one of the firft yellows, which may be made to
produce five or fix forts of Green with verdigreafe, according as
the gamboge is in the greater or lefler proportion ; if it abounds,
it will make a tolerable oak Green, and, being mixed with a
greater quantity of verdigreafe, it will make a fine grafs Green.
But the yellow, which fome prefer before all others, is made
of French berries, which is either deeper or fainter, according as
the liquor they ar§ boiled in is more or lefs {rained by them ; if it
be very=thin, it makes a good glaze all over the verdigreafe, and,
as it approaches nearer to Dutch pink or gall.(lone, commands
almoft any colour we want; being agreeably mixed with the
tranfparent verdigreafe, and is ftil! transparent.
In like manner a yellow, drawn from the roots of barberries,
and alfo that drawn from the roots of the mulberry-tree, will, in
a great meafure, produce the like efFecb, being mixed with the
tranfparent verdigreafe.
As for verdigreafe itfelf, it produces a fine bluifh Green, flows
readily in the pencil, and mav even ferve as an ink to write with.
For the manner of preparing the tranfparent verdigreafe. See
COLOUR.
Sap Green, is a colour like that of an oak-leaf, if it be ufed
thin with common water, for this wants no gum ; but, if it be
ufed ftrong, will produce as dark a Green as any,
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