Colours and Coloukino Powders. 47^ 



liquor in white precipitate of lead, oxide of tin, or Baume''s alum 

 white, to furnish a body to the colour, and drying. 



Iris green. Juice of the petals of blue flag, iris nostras, ground 

 with quicklime. 



Cork, Corker. Lichen omphalodes made up into balls; used 

 to dye wool. 



Weld yellow. Fine whiting 4lb., water 4 pints, boil together 

 into a smooth paste, add gradually akmi half an oz. in fine powder. 

 Boil weld in water for a quarter of an hour, strain, and add the 

 liquor to the pap of whiting and alum until the desired shade of 

 colour is obtained ; pour into earthen pans, and dry on chalk : used 

 by the paper-hanging makers. 



Brown pink. French berries lib., fustic in chips half a lb., 

 pearl ashes lib., water I7 gall., boil in a tin or pewter caldron, 

 strain through flannel while hot : dissolve alum l^lb., in water 2t 

 gall., pour it into the strained tincture as long as a sediment falls, 

 wash the sediment, drain on paper or cloth and dry. — 2. French 

 berries 21b., water 2 gallons, boil for two hours, strain through 

 flannel ; add levigated soft part of the cuttle fish bone l^lb., eva- 

 porate in a water bath to a stiff" consistence, grind on a stone, cut 

 into cakes and dry on a board. Is a fine glazing colour ground 

 with linseed oil and used with drying oil. 



Dutch pink. Prepared from French berries in the same man- 

 ner as brown pink, out turmeric is used instead of fustick, and 

 whiting, starch, or white lead to give the body. It should be of 

 a fine golden yellow and very bright. 



Schult geU), Prepared from birch leaves. 



English pink, Light pink. Prepared like Dutch pink, but with 

 more whiting. 



Pose pink. Whiting coloured with a decoction of Brasil wood 

 and pearl-ashes; very fine colour, but does not stand. 



Stone blue. Fig blue. Crown blue, Meckleiiberg blue, Queen'^s blue, 

 Indicum vulgare. Indigo reduced in price by adding starch. — 

 2. Indigo and whiting. 



Sap green. Juice of buckthorn berries, black alder, or of ever- 

 green privet, 12 pints, lime water 8 pints, gum Arabic 6 oz. ; eva- 

 porate till quite thick, then pour into bladders. 



English verdigrise. Blue vitriol 24lb., white vitriol 16lb., sugar 

 of lead 12lb., alum 2lb. ; all coarsely powdered, put in a pot over 

 the fire, and stirred until they are united into a mass. 



I Cake water colours. Extracts of coloured flowers, or the usual 

 colours made up with gum water and a little isinglass jelly, and put 

 into greased moulds. 



