Valuable Secrets concerning Arts and Trades:
or Approved Directions, from the best Artists, for the Various Methods...
Printed by Thomas Hubbard,
Norwich, 1795Chap. V. Secrets concerning colours & painting.
§ VIII. Preparations of colours of all sorts for oil, water, and crayons.
CXXIII. To take off instantly a copy from a print or a picture.
Make a water of soap and alum, with which wet a cloth or a paper; lay either on a print or picture, and pass it once under the rolling press: then going round the other side to take it up, you will have a very fine copy of whatever you shall have laid it upon.
CXXIV. Directions to make the Spanish carnation.
Take bailard saffron; wash, dry, and grind it well. While you grind it, put in four ounces of pearl ashes to every one pound of saffron. Incorporate them well, both together, and throw it into a double cloth jelly-bag. Then set half a pint of Spanish lemon's juice on the fire, and, when just luke-warm, pour it on the saffron in the bag, and lay under it what you want to dye. - The stuff which is to be dyed ought previously to have been boiled in alum-water, then rinsed and wiped between two cloths, as a preparatory process to make it take the dye the better.
CXXV. To make the Spanish ladies rouge.
This rouge, is a vermilion, which is carefully lud on a sheet of paper, from which, by means of wetting th tip of your finger with your spittle, you may then take it off, at will, and rub your cheeks, lips, &c. The method of making it is as follows.
1. Take good scarlet flocks and spirit of wine, or, in their slead, lemon's juice. Boil the whole in an earthen pot, well glazed and well stopped, till the spirit of wine, or lemon's; uice, has charged itself with all the colour of the scarlet flocks. Strain this dye through a cloth, and wring it hard to express well all the colour out. Boil it afterwards with a little Arabic water, till the colour becomes very deep.
2. On half a pound of scarlet's flocks you must put four ounces of spirit of wine, and a sufficient quantity of water, to soak well the flocks. Then, in the colour you extract from it, put the bulk of a filbert of gum arabick, and boil the whole in a silver porringer. When this is ready, as we said before; proceed as follows.
3. Steep some cotton in the colour, and wet some sheets of paper with it: let them dry in the shade, though in a place by no means damp at all. Repeat thir wetting and drying of the same sheets over and over again, as many times as you please, till you find they are charged with rouge to your satisfaction.
CXXVI. A fine lake, made with shell-lac.
1. Boil, and skim well, sixteen pounds of chamber-lye; then put in one pound of fine shell-lac, with five ounces of roch alum in powder. Boil all together, till you see the chamber-lye is well charged with the colour, which you may easily know by steeping a bit of white rag in it; then take it out again to see whether or not the colour please you; and if it do not, let it boil longer, repeating the same trial, till you are perfectly satisfied.
2. Throw, now, the liquor in a flannel bag; and, without suffering what runs into the pan under to settle, repour it into the bag so many times, till the liquor runs at last quite clear, and not tinged. Then, with a wooden spatula, take off the lake, which is in form of curd; form it into small cakes, or balls, and dry them in a shade on new tiles; then keep them for use.
N. B. For want of chamber-lye, you may, if you chuse, employ a tart lye made of strong pearl ashes.
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