KERAMIC STUDIO 
149 
TILE, FORMAL GARDEN MOTIF— M. L. BRIGHAM 
Design for Gold or Silver and one color. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
C — / understand how to put matt on a vase but does this differ from "dusting'!" 
No it does not if you have been applying oil and brushing the drj- color 
over the oil. 
C. J. M. — Will you please give the required proportions for a medium 
which uses Oil of cloves and Balsam Copaiba? 
Some people use 5 parts Copaiba and 1 of cloves but a better one is 4 parts 
Copaiba, 1 cloves and 2 Garden Lavender Oil. 
M. I. S. — I have been having considerable trouble trying to use matt colors 
on china. I wanted a light cream so mixed Ivory and white a?id ground them 
about a half hour but found the longer I ground them the darker they became and 
after firing were a light brown. Before I began grinding everything was perfectly 
clean. 
I also find in using matt white it fires rather coarse and sometimes chips off. 
Will you tell me just how to prepare matt colors? 
What gold is used to secure the soft matt effect? I use Roman Gold but it is 
rather bright ivhen burnished. 
Can see no reason for the dark color unless the Ivory was labelled wrong 
and was a darker color. 
Colors will chip off if used too heavy but if that is not the cause perhaps 
the white is not fluxed enough, a little flux could be added to it. 
The best way to use matt colors is to dust them on. If the color 
seems coarse and grainy rub out the lumps with a palette knife or a glass 
muller before dusting it on. 
Perhaps you are referring to the Green Gold; it burnishes rather bright 
but has a greenish cast which gives it the dull effect or you may possibly 
mean a matt gold, the roman gold is a burnish gold The matt gold is not 
being used now so you possibly refer to the Green Gold. 
