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RERAMIC STUDIO 
FLAMING BUSH BORDER 
GENERAL DIRECTIONS 
OR carrying out the designs a few general directions 
fffittg will simplify and lead to a clearer understanding. 
[JL ** j n the first place it is understood that the designs, 
YYjf with few exceptions, are traced and outlined on 
/FgJ china with India ink before the work is begun. 
To avoid repetition this is dropped from the in- 
dividual directions. For outlining, when black is 
mentioned, Dresden Outlining Black is meant. 
La Croix Dark Green and Violet of Iron, Dresden 
Banding Blue and Finishing Brown are satisfac- 
tory colors. Outlining may be done either. with 
brush or pen. For delicate lines the pen is best. For strong 
outlining the brush (a number one tracer) gives the best 
results. The brush outline expresses more "feeling" than 
the pen. 
Where Neutral Yellow is recommended, Miss Mason's 
is the most satisfactory, but this color needs thorough 
grinding. A substitute may be made with a mixture of 
Ivory or Yellow Ochre and a touch of Black to gray it. 
If Yellow Ochre is used add a touch also of Deep Red 
Brown to keep it from turning green. Where Gray Green 
is mentioned, use the prepared color or, for substitutes, 
La Croix Dark Green softened with Neutral Yellow and 
used thin, or Aulich's Olive Green are satisfactory. 
The frequent suggestion of the use of Neutral Yellow 
and Gray Green is because they are so harmonious with 
the majority of colors. Variety is not so much our aim 
as harmony, which explains the use of a limited palette. 
The promiscuous use of lustres is not favored, but 
in the painting of butterflies and birds, especially peacocks, 
the judicious use of lustres will result in the most charming 
effects. 
BORDERS IN FLAMING BUSH, BITTER SWEET 
AND MOUNTAIN ASH 
FEP Red Brown is used for the Flaming Bush 
(central plate design) very thin on the calyx and 
stem and deep on the berry. Blood Red may be 
used instead for the berry as it is stronger. For 
the inner band, lay a thin wash of Deep Red 
Brown with a line of Gold either side . 
For the Bitter-Sweet, paint the calyx and stems 
Yellow Brown and the berry with Capucine Red.. 
the inner band with Capucine Red (thin), with Gold 
boundary line. 
with 
Lay 
for a 
The Mountain-Ash berry is painted with Capucine 
Red, stems with Olive Green. The color is laid flat in 
every case and one can with care and practice make one 
painting do. The outline should be gone over, however, 
a second time as the color has dimmed the first painting. 
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TWO BORDERS- FLAMING BUSH 
TPHESE are two different positions of the same motif, 
' and for the coloring of both see directions for this motif 
in plate border. A gold background is wonderfully effec- 
tive if used as a border for steins, the outlines in black 
must be kept sharp and clean, and left for the third firing. 
The gold will require two coats. 
MOUNTAIN ASH DESIGN (Page 198) 
C^OR the adaptation of this design we would suggest 
* the use of a vase or large bowl or stein. The stem may 
be abbreviated to suit the height of the piece. For a 
background for this decoration make a choice between 
Vandyke Brown, Neutral Yellow and Grey Green. The 
berries are painted with Capucine Red, leaves and stems 
in Grey Green. The outlining may be done with Dark 
Green, Violet of Iron or Black. 
The berries are not outlined, but a path is formed 
around them by letting in the background. If the edges 
are clean and sharp, no other outline is necessary. 
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ANCIENT MARBLE QUARRIES RE-OPENED 
THE report that a Swedish company has leased the old 
quarries in Iona Island, and that their famous white 
and serpentine marble will soon be placed on the market, 
calls to mind that the quarries were wrought ages ago. 
Their output, however, says the Westminster Gazette, has 
long been limited to a few occasional stones for the purposes 
of charm and local jewelry manufacture. 
The altar in the old cathedral was made entirely of 
white marble, quarried and cut in the island, and, although 
there is no record of the material being exported, it is sur- 
mised that a similar use had been found for the stone in ec- 
clesiastical buildings elsewhere, both in this country and on 
the continent. 
The marble of which the Iona charms and jewelry are 
mosty manufactured is of a fine pale greenish hue. 
FLAMING BUSH BORDER 
