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use any colors on il if they are used delicately so they blend in with the color 
of the ware. Soft o;rey, green gold, dull yellow and a dull lavender or mode 
is good. Also pink and greys or any other color that you like. 
//. M.G. — Would you kindly tell me if Royal Donlton china can lie find 
to advantage. Tlicrc is a difference of opinion here in regard to il. 
You should be able to fire it but we do not know what temperature of 
heat it requires, if it is decorated you run a risk in firing it. 
M. — A friend has a dinner set with, a tinted background which has been in 
use for years. The Hid is worn off in places. Fruit acids, etc., affect the lint. 
Why is this.' Is it not advisable to tint anything that will be used a great deal.' 
The tint should not wear off, it probably was not fired hot enough. Table 
ware is not being tinted all over now, it is left white with the edge tinted if 
preferred or it is all left white except the design. 
/. A'. C. — //; th.e September, 1915 number of Keramie Studio, page (Hi, 
Uteri is u will grape motif for Belled: howl by L. A. Mowbray. I would like 
In make the grapes a different color not purple. What would you suggest.' 
Would pale green or while gold look well? 
White gold would be alright but they would look better in enamel since 
the leaves are made of it. A dull yellow enamel made of Jasmine and a little 
Amethyst or Warm Grey would be alright or if White Gold is used paint, the 
leaves with flat color or Light Green Lustre. 
Mrs.E.W.S. — Do not guile understand, the new dusting process. In 
doing tea tile ''Phantom Ship Design' in. May, 1914, is il necessary to dry 
dusted part before proceeding with the next, and what is to prevent one dusting 
color front dusting into the air and settling on the others:' I hare used the dry 
ground process for large surfaces successfully but do not sec how it can be applied 
to small spaces next to one another. Why is the entire Hie dusted with grey in 
the last fire' Should the color when applied obscure the entire design? 
2. In using lube colors can I use Lavender oil as a medium or just turpen- 
tine! 
3. In painting on dusted purls, must th.ey be first dried and Die painting 
proceed in the regular manner.' 
1. No, it is not necessary to dry the different colors, a small dusting 
brush is used and you keep the color off the other parts as much as possi- 
ble. It is best to dust the darkest and strongest colors on first and then if 
the lightest colors do dust over them it will not affect them. Yes, the grey 
should be over the entire design, it is a very delicate color and will not obscure 
your colors but is used to blend the colors together in one tone. 
2. Yes, Lavender may be used instead of turpentine. 
3. Do not understand this question, if you mean painting over a place 
that has been dusted it cannot be done before the dusting is fired. 
F. A . J. — Will you kindly tell me if lustres and enamels will work on French 
and German china after design was removed with acid and Hie glaze left dull? 
Would I use hard enamels the same as before? 
Can Salsuma be fired with the French and German china by putting in the 
coolest part of the. kiln.' 
Enamels are never as satisfactory on these wares as on a soft, ware, you 
are always in danger of having them chip off, but they will hold just as well 
as before the glaze was removed. Lustre would nol be satisfactory as it would 
fire dull. Dry dusting would be satisfactory on it. Yes, use hard enamels. 
Satsuma can be fired with the other pieces as you suggest. 
0. S. H. — In December, 1914, Keramie is a lemonade set in enamels by 
May B. Hodscher which I do no! fully understand. 
to suggest a delicate tinting or 
m the colors. 
on and Brown Green.' Gould 
u! base of pitcher 
ml each flout r, if 
1. What is the effect of the finished pier 
otherwise.' because il means a difference in layin 
2. What is the proportion of Miisscn B 
another color serve as a substitute for Meissen Brown? 
3. Some q/ the small dark spaces in band are darker, those nearest the. cir- 
cle being the darkest, are all Blood Red? What are the two spaces in stalk just 
below the darkest flowers at the base of circle, also (lie two small spaces where the 
stalk and band meet at bottom of pitcher? 
4. Is the baud, leading from the stall: and running ar 
to be of same enamel as stalk? 
•5. What color in center of flowers? 
6. Is enamel used to fill in the small circular form al- 
so what color? 
1. The general effect is delicate tinting. 
2. A Dark Brown and Yellow Brown could be used instead of Meissen 
Use 1 part Dark Brown, 1 Yellow Brown and 1 Brown Green. 
3. All of the dark spaces should be the same tone of Blood Red. Use 
the Yellow enamel used it) the light flower for the spaces in the stalk. 
4. Yes. 
5. L'se Jersey Cream in a ready prepared enamel, or Yellow Brown and 
a little Black in mixing the enamel. 
0. Yes, use the same enamel in dark flowers as used in the partly 
concealed ones and in the latter use the same as in darkest flowers. For 
lightest flowers use same as centers with a little more white added. 
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