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JAP 9
Olive-coloured Japan. Take ifing-glafs or parchment fize
what quantity you pleafe, Englifh pink in fine powder a fuffi-
cient quantity ; grind them together till they are of the confid-
ence of butter; then mix them with lamp-black and white lead
in a due proportion, which you may find by making feveral tri-
als ; adding white lead if it be too dark, and lamp-black if it be
too light.
If it be too green, help it with a little raw umber ground very
fine, for this will take away the greennefs.
Marble Japan. Your wood being prepared in all refpecis
as for white Japan, then lay it over with flake-white or white
lead ; and, if you defign your work to be a white with fome veins,
ufe vine-black, made of the cuttings of vines, burnt and ground j
mix it with a very weak ifing-glafs fize made warm, the laid vine-
black and white lead making two or three degrees of it, till you
have produced the intended colours for the clouds and veins of
marble.
2. Then with a large clean brum wet the work over with water,
and, before it is dry, dip a camels hair pencil in the paleft thin
mixture, and fo lay the fainteft large clouds and veins, which, be-
ing laid on while the work is wet, will lie foft and fweet, like
that which is natural.
4. And, before it is too dry, gently touch all the lefler veins,
and variety of the marble, with a fmaller pencil, and one degree
darker; endeavouring, as much as may be, to imitate n attire in
all its footffeps.
4. Then, with a fmall-pointed feather, touch and break all
your fmaller veins with the deepen1 colour, and make them irre-
gular, wild, and confufed, as they appear in the real ftone ; then
fet it by to dry for a day or two, and wafh it over with ifing-glafs
fize or parchment fize.
5. After it has flood for two or three days to dry, varnifh it
over five or fix times with the beft white varnifh, letting it ftand
to be thoroughly dry between each time; then fet it by again for a
week, and afterwards polifh it and clear it up, according as you
are direcled in varnifhing other works.
6. If you would have it reprefent either white or grey marble,
you mult ufe the beft white varnifh ; but, if yellowifh, or of a
parchment colour, you muft ufe the beft feed-lac varnifh, either
alone or mixed with the white varnifh, as you pleafe.
Tortoije-fnell Japan, i. That which is here endeavoured to
be imitated, is tortoife-fhell, laid upon filver foil, which gives it
life and beauty; now, to imitate this well, the wood muft be
clofe grained, fmooth, and well wrought, as box, pear-tree, wal-
nut-tree, &c.
2. But, if the wood be coarfe-grained, as deal, oak, &c. it muft
be
Olive-coloured Japan. Take ifing-glafs or parchment fize
what quantity you pleafe, Englifh pink in fine powder a fuffi-
cient quantity ; grind them together till they are of the confid-
ence of butter; then mix them with lamp-black and white lead
in a due proportion, which you may find by making feveral tri-
als ; adding white lead if it be too dark, and lamp-black if it be
too light.
If it be too green, help it with a little raw umber ground very
fine, for this will take away the greennefs.
Marble Japan. Your wood being prepared in all refpecis
as for white Japan, then lay it over with flake-white or white
lead ; and, if you defign your work to be a white with fome veins,
ufe vine-black, made of the cuttings of vines, burnt and ground j
mix it with a very weak ifing-glafs fize made warm, the laid vine-
black and white lead making two or three degrees of it, till you
have produced the intended colours for the clouds and veins of
marble.
2. Then with a large clean brum wet the work over with water,
and, before it is dry, dip a camels hair pencil in the paleft thin
mixture, and fo lay the fainteft large clouds and veins, which, be-
ing laid on while the work is wet, will lie foft and fweet, like
that which is natural.
4. And, before it is too dry, gently touch all the lefler veins,
and variety of the marble, with a fmaller pencil, and one degree
darker; endeavouring, as much as may be, to imitate n attire in
all its footffeps.
4. Then, with a fmall-pointed feather, touch and break all
your fmaller veins with the deepen1 colour, and make them irre-
gular, wild, and confufed, as they appear in the real ftone ; then
fet it by to dry for a day or two, and wafh it over with ifing-glafs
fize or parchment fize.
5. After it has flood for two or three days to dry, varnifh it
over five or fix times with the beft white varnifh, letting it ftand
to be thoroughly dry between each time; then fet it by again for a
week, and afterwards polifh it and clear it up, according as you
are direcled in varnifhing other works.
6. If you would have it reprefent either white or grey marble,
you mult ufe the beft white varnifh ; but, if yellowifh, or of a
parchment colour, you muft ufe the beft feed-lac varnifh, either
alone or mixed with the white varnifh, as you pleafe.
Tortoije-fnell Japan, i. That which is here endeavoured to
be imitated, is tortoife-fhell, laid upon filver foil, which gives it
life and beauty; now, to imitate this well, the wood muft be
clofe grained, fmooth, and well wrought, as box, pear-tree, wal-
nut-tree, &c.
2. But, if the wood be coarfe-grained, as deal, oak, &c. it muft
be