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ings in water or varnish. It is sometimes used only to fill the out. 

 lines already formed by printing, where the price of the colour, or 

 the exactness of the manner in which it is required to be laid on, 

 render the stencilling or printing it less proper ; at other times it is 

 used for forming or delineating some parts of the design, where 

 a spirit of freedom and vari ty, not to be had printed in out- 

 lines, are desirable in the work. The paper designed tor receiv- 

 ing the flock is first prepared with a varnish-ground with some 

 proper colour, or by that of the paper itself. It is frequently 

 practised to print some Mosaic, or other small running figure in 

 colours, on the ground, before the flock be laid on; and it may be 

 done with any pigment of the colour desired, tempered with var- 

 nish, and laid on by a print cut correspondency to that end. The 

 method of laying on the flock is this : a wooden print being cut, 

 as is above described, for laying on the colour in such manner that 

 the part of the design which is intended for the flock may project 

 beyond the rest of the surface, the varnish is put on a block cover- 

 ed with leather or oil-cloth, and the print is to be used also in the 

 same manner, to lay the varnish on all the parts where the flock is 

 to be fixed. The sheet, thus prepared by the varnished impres- 

 sion, is then to be removed to another block, or table, and to be 

 strewed over with flock, which is afterwards to be gently com- 

 pressed by a board, or some other flat body, to make the varnish 

 take the better hold of it : and then the sheet is to be hung on a 

 frame till the varnish be perfectly dry, at which time the super- 

 fluous part of flock is to be brushed off by a soft camel's-hair 

 brush, and the proper flock will be found to adhere in a very strong 

 manner. The method of preparing the flock is, by cutting woollen 

 rags or pieces of cloth with the hand, by means of a large bill or 

 chopping. knife ; or by means of a machine worked by a horse, 

 mill. There is a kind of counterfeit nock-paper, which, when 

 well managed, has very much the same effect to the eye as the real, 

 though done with less expence. The manner of making this sort 

 is, by laying a ground oi' varnish on the paper, and having after, 

 wards printed the design of the flock in varnish, in the same man. 

 ner as for the true ; instead of the flock, some pigment or dry 

 colour, of the same hue with the flock required by the design, but 

 somewhat of a darker shade, being well powdered, is strewed on 

 th printed varnish, and produces nearly the same appearance. 



