376 IMPROVED METHOD OF PAfNTING CANVAS. 



viz. Canvas which has been painted with black paint only, 

 produces a black colour. Canvas finished black, but which 

 has had a previous red or yellow ground, will produce a 

 dark chocolate colour. Canvas painted lead colour, will 

 yield a good dark lead colour. 



I am, Sir, 



Your obedient humble Servant, 



W. ANDERSON. 



Testimonies to Certificates, dated March, 1807, were received from the 



the superiority following persons, viz. 



of canvas paint- . c i» 



ed in the new A* atow, lieutenant and commander of the gun brig 



mode, Steady, stating, that in the preceding month of October 



he had received on board his ship a set of hammock, cloths, 

 painted after the method invented by Mr. William Ander- 

 son, which had been constantly in use since the time above 

 mentioned, and appeared fully to answer the end proposed, 

 of rendering the canvas soft and pliable, and of preventing its 

 cracking, or the paint peeling off, which in the old method 

 had been a subject of much complaint. 



Johp Pridy, lieutenant and commander of the Gla- 

 diator, and formerly commander of the Dapper, on which 

 latter ship a set of hammock cloths, painted after Mr. 

 Anderson's method, appeared fully to answer the end pro- 

 posed. 



P. F. Wyatt, oil and colourman, Portsca, stating, that 



he had seen canvas painted after Mr. Anderson's new 



method, which, after a trial of sixteen months, remained 



perfectly soft and pliable, the paint by no means crackmg 



or peeling off, and that the gloss was retained, though it 



had been exposed to all weathers. He farther added, that 



and to the he had seen the paint prepared by him from old painted 



ofTaint from* canvas found unserviceable, and had worked and painted 



•Id canvas. therewith ; that it was, in his judgment, very good, and 



would answer either on canvas, wood, or iron. 



i\ T s. .Diddcms, master shipwright, Portsmouth, dock- 

 yard, stating that Mr. Anderson had proposed to him to 

 obtain, by calcination, from old unserviceable painted, 

 canvas, the paint which had been laid thereon • that such 

 - experiment 



