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To 7nah Wood of the colour of gold, fiver, ceppcr, §r brafs.
Pound rock crvilal verv fine in a mortar, then grind it on a mar-
ble with clean water; then put it into an earthen vefTel with a lit-
tle glue, warm it and lay it on your work, as above ; rub it with
gold, filver, or copper, and it will be of the fame colour you rub
it with; then polifh it.
To lay pencil geld or fiher on Wood. Temper the gold or fil-
ver with weak gum tragacanth water, very clear; lay it on the
lights of your works with a pencil, without touching the fha-
dows, which are to be done with indigo, ground with a weak gum
arabic water ; then varnifh it with the drying varnifh.
To colour Wood after the manner of marble. For a table, Sic,
firft lay feven or eight layers of white, as though it were to be
gilded writh burnifhed gold ; then having ready ground black,
not over much fized, add thereto a little yolk of egg, and a little
dry faffron ; lay it on, let it dry, and then burnifh it exactly.
By this means you may counterfeit to the life all forts of mar-
ble, having a little experience in colours; and make alfo all forts
of works, as fretted work, flat work, ovals, &c.
Let there be in the colours a little yolk of egg and faffron ;
that is, in fuch as can bear it, colouring the marble with divers
colours; the colours muff, be laid on clear, like threads. You
may alfo on fuch a ground before directed pour out a fhell of one
colour in one place; then, turning it (helving on one fide, caufe
the colours to run, which will make veins; and then take an-
other fhell, full of another colour, and do the like; fo continuing
with all your colours.
Or elfe with a grefs brum lay all your colours very clear,
r.ear one another.
After the colours are dry, you may make ufe of the pencil to
repair the defects ; then burnifh your work, which will not be
fubiect to duff: or fpoiling.
[An exquifite zvay of tnrhVtng and beautifying Wooden works.
Firfl cover your Wooden work with hot glue, then with the
mixture of glue, and whiting upon this, lay the fize for burnifh-
ed gold, and lay on the gold and filver and burnifh it; then hav-
ing ground right indigo with the yolk of an egg, and that being
very thin and clear, lay it on the filver, fo as that the filvermay ap-
pear through it. When it is dry, pounce your paper pattern,
being whitened with chalk; then with the fame indigo draw
over the pounced ffrokes of your figure as neatly as you can, as
if you were to draw a figure with a pen upon paper; then with
the fame indigo made thinner fhadow it, and afterwards with
umber ; then heighten with a Wooden point, by hatching the
lights; then varnifh the works, and it will feem to be enamel-
led.
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To 7nah Wood of the colour of gold, fiver, ceppcr, §r brafs.
Pound rock crvilal verv fine in a mortar, then grind it on a mar-
ble with clean water; then put it into an earthen vefTel with a lit-
tle glue, warm it and lay it on your work, as above ; rub it with
gold, filver, or copper, and it will be of the fame colour you rub
it with; then polifh it.
To lay pencil geld or fiher on Wood. Temper the gold or fil-
ver with weak gum tragacanth water, very clear; lay it on the
lights of your works with a pencil, without touching the fha-
dows, which are to be done with indigo, ground with a weak gum
arabic water ; then varnifh it with the drying varnifh.
To colour Wood after the manner of marble. For a table, Sic,
firft lay feven or eight layers of white, as though it were to be
gilded writh burnifhed gold ; then having ready ground black,
not over much fized, add thereto a little yolk of egg, and a little
dry faffron ; lay it on, let it dry, and then burnifh it exactly.
By this means you may counterfeit to the life all forts of mar-
ble, having a little experience in colours; and make alfo all forts
of works, as fretted work, flat work, ovals, &c.
Let there be in the colours a little yolk of egg and faffron ;
that is, in fuch as can bear it, colouring the marble with divers
colours; the colours muff, be laid on clear, like threads. You
may alfo on fuch a ground before directed pour out a fhell of one
colour in one place; then, turning it (helving on one fide, caufe
the colours to run, which will make veins; and then take an-
other fhell, full of another colour, and do the like; fo continuing
with all your colours.
Or elfe with a grefs brum lay all your colours very clear,
r.ear one another.
After the colours are dry, you may make ufe of the pencil to
repair the defects ; then burnifh your work, which will not be
fubiect to duff: or fpoiling.
[An exquifite zvay of tnrhVtng and beautifying Wooden works.
Firfl cover your Wooden work with hot glue, then with the
mixture of glue, and whiting upon this, lay the fize for burnifh-
ed gold, and lay on the gold and filver and burnifh it; then hav-
ing ground right indigo with the yolk of an egg, and that being
very thin and clear, lay it on the filver, fo as that the filvermay ap-
pear through it. When it is dry, pounce your paper pattern,
being whitened with chalk; then with the fame indigo draw
over the pounced ffrokes of your figure as neatly as you can, as
if you were to draw a figure with a pen upon paper; then with
the fame indigo made thinner fhadow it, and afterwards with
umber ; then heighten with a Wooden point, by hatching the
lights; then varnifh the works, and it will feem to be enamel-
led.
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