Sf>6 LACQUERING. 



brass, it requires the addition of some orange 

 coloured tinge to make it a perfect lacquer. 



Aloes and gamboge are also sometimes used in 

 lacquers for brass ; but the aloes is not necessary 

 where turmeric or saffron is used ; and the gam* 

 boge, though a very strong milky juice in water, 

 affords but a very weak tinge in spirit of wine. 



A Lacquer for Tin, to imitate a Yellow Metal. 



Take of turmeric root one ounce, of dragon's 

 blood two drachms, and of spirits of wine one 

 pint j add a sufficient quantity of seed-lac. 



A Lacquer for Lodes, fyc. 



Seed-lac varnish alone, or with a little dragon's 

 blood : or a compound varnish of equal parts of 

 seed-lac and resin, with or without the dragon's 

 blood. 



A Gold-coloured Lacquer for gilding Leather. 



What is called gilt leather, and used for screens, 

 borders for rooms, &c. is only leather covered 

 with silver leaf, and lacquered with the following 

 composition. 



Take of fine white resin four pounds and a half, 

 of common resin the same quantity, of gum san- 

 darach two pounds and a half, and of aloes two 

 pounds ; mix them together, after having bruised 

 those which are in great pieces, and put them into 

 an earthen pot, over a good fire made of charcoal, 

 or over any fire where there is no flame. Melt all 



