THE AMEBIGANBEE KEEPER. 



March 



Cld Greek Painters. 



The methods of these ancient days 

 were totally different from those of the 

 present day and AVere evidently vastly 

 more durable. Pan'sls of wood were used 

 to paint on, sycan^ore and cypress, also 

 panels of papier inache, and occasional- 

 ly they were fomed by gluing three 

 thicknesses of canvas together. These 

 panels were usualJy about 14 inches long 

 by 7 inches wide. The artist used liquid 

 was instead of oil to mix the colors, 

 which were made, not from vegetable, 

 but from mineral substances, and were 

 of marvelous brilliancy and permanence 

 — blue powdered lapis lazuli, green 

 malachite, red oxide of iron, etc. Tha 

 colors were laid on in patches, some- 

 what after the fashion of a mosaic, and 

 afterward blended with an instrument 

 called the cestrum, which appears to 

 have been a lancet shaped spatula, long 

 handled, with at one end a curved point, 

 at the other a finely deutated edge. 

 With the toothed edge the wax could be 

 equalized and smoothed, while the point 

 was used for placing high lights, mark- 

 ing lips, eyebrows, etc. 



The final process, which gives the 

 name encaustic to this kind of painting, 

 was the burning in of the colors. This 

 was done by the application of a heated 

 surface to the panel, though George 

 Ebers believes that in Egypt the heat of 

 the sun was probably all that was need- 

 ed to complete the artist's work.- 



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Velvet is maniifactured by placing in 

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 the material designed to be employed, 

 whether cotton or silk. These are then 

 caught up by the cross threads in the 

 weaving and fastened in such a way 

 that the fleecy ends pn'seut themselves 

 all on one side of the fabric. The manu- 

 facture of velvet is so slow that for a 

 hand weaver a yard is considered a good 

 day's work. The machine made velvet 

 is of course turned out much more rap- 

 \dly. 



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