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 A Companion for the Ingenious 
 of either SEX. 
 
 Jn Cteo ^actjs. 
 
 I. The Art ef Limning and Painting in Oil, &&, [nail 
 Particulars, *«,. Di awing and Painting Faces, BjJ.vS, 
 Garments, Landskip, Preparing and laying on Colours- 
 alio colouring Mezzo- tinto Prints, Gilding on Wood, Mo- 
 rals and Leather The neweft Experiment in Japaning, to 
 imitate the Indian \v..y, Plain and in Speckles, Rock work. 
 Figures, &c. Receipts for making the leverai forts of Var 
 nifhes, Colours, &c. To make Artificial Tortoiftlhe 1, to 
 Dye or Stain L/ory, Horn, Bone, Brifties, Feathers, and 
 fundry forts of Woods for Cabinet?. " The Myftery ofDy 
 i'jg Silks, Stuffs, Woollen and Linen Cloth. To take 
 Spots, Stains, Pitch, Tar and Iron moulds out of Si k- 
 Stuffc, Linen and Woollen, and to recover faded Silks 
 Linen, &c. The Art of Perfuming and Beautifying. 
 Divers Phyfi.al and Chirurgical Receipts. To make Undm" 
 Powder- Ink, other Powder Inks, and the fining Japan- 
 Ink With many other Notable th ; ngs. 
 
 II. The Art of makmg GlaCs of Chsiftat, of all forts and 
 Colours, and to prepare the Materials. To make Glafs 
 of Lead of man) beautiful colours. To make Enamel of 
 divers Colours, for Gold, Stiver, or oilier Metal.*. To 
 make Chalcedony, like Jafpar an ! other Lucid Stones & c . 
 and to prepare Materials for the Work. To make Arti- 
 ficial Precious Stones in e;ual Beauty to the true; and to 
 colour Globes of Giafs en the infide. Tile Art of Paint- 
 ingGlaf S ioOiTandAneaIingand burning on th? Colour 
 The Art of Gilding divers forts of Metals. Inftruciiong 
 to caft Figures in Wax, Plaifter.pur-tft Metals, &c. Leaves 
 Flowtvs, Medals., and other Matters worthy of Note. 
 
 To rvhick ore added m*hj Cmri&hi and rare Secret i 
 
 The Second Ed itioa By C. R 
 
 I London, Printed for G. c on j m at the Goti fn ~RixT 
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 A ;/r,rA»* fijA AT- 4 
 
THE 
 
 EPISTLE 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 READER. 
 
 Kind Reader, 
 
 IThmk 1 need make no long JptUgy 
 for this Book, fince the Title is fuffici- 
 ent to recommend it to the peruful of 
 the Ingenious , though it contains hut bints 
 of what in larger Variety of curious Things^ 
 are more copioufly inferted for the Accom- 
 modation of Toung Gentlemen, Gentlewo- 
 men, and others, done with that Care and 
 Exabtnefs, in all the many particulars, 
 that without vain glory, 1 may prefume to 
 fay, that this , nor formtr Ages have not 
 produced of thefe kinds any thing fo curious 
 and compabl. 
 
 It carries with it all along as linked in 
 
 * Chain, Pleajure and Profit, and cannot 
 
 A%, hut 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 hnt be grateful to the Farcies, especially of 
 the younger fort, who pitting in practice 
 what be ft fuits their Minds , may much 
 pleafe others and accomplfo them/elves. 
 
 As for Limning or Painting, it has al~ 
 wzys been in high Eftecm with the great efi 
 and tnofl Honourable Per fens in the World \ 
 avd is an Innocent and Diverting Recrea- 
 ticn, Japanning Tccnfefs is net fo Anci' 
 (ft, efpccially in theje parts of the Glebe, 
 there fere to be efeemed as (indeed it is) 
 the mere Rare and Confiderable^ as for the 
 refi too tedious to enumerate in a' Jhort 
 Fpiftle, though fome of them have been 
 lorg in ufe y Time and lnduftry have better 
 improved th m to Advantage, fuch as ars 
 Indufiricus to imploy their Talents for the 
 good of themfehes and others: And fo the 
 ■whole Work not comprehending many Sheets, 
 I ftmll omit what mere Ijuftly might fay, 
 and fubmitting to the Cenfure of the Can- 
 did and Ingenious Reader, take leave to 
 [ubferibe my felf, 
 
 T.ur mofi Humble 
 
 Servant, 
 Ci K. 
 
THE 
 
 Curious ART 
 
 DRAWING, 
 
 AND 
 
 Preparing for Limning and Paint- 
 ing in Oil, &c. 
 
 The Introduction to the Vrat~iice y in fame 
 Things necejjary to be provided for the 
 proceeding in this Art. 
 
 TH E curious Art of Limning or Paint- 
 ing in Oil, has in all Ages been won- 
 derfully admired and approved, as the 
 Matter- piece of other Arts and Sciences, where- 
 in Art fo exa&ly imitates Nature, that Motion 
 only feems to be wanting ; and many fuch rare 
 Pieces have been Drawn, that they have at the 
 firftblufh deceived the Eyes of the Carjous, who 
 A 4 have 
 
8 Arfi Mafler-pece. 
 
 have taken them for real Living Beings, and 
 tho' th: Eye and Hand are mainly required here- 
 in, the one ro direct, and the other to operate, 
 yet the Mind or Imagination muft furnifh out 
 a great part of the curiofity, having Idea's, or 
 ths true Shape of things always in a readinefi. 
 
 This cannot be done haftil" , but m"ft be done 
 by a (ready Pra&ice and curious Obfervations, 
 and the firft in this Undertaking, is to prepare 
 your ftlf with fuitable materials, and amongft 
 others, French Chalk red and white, that it may 
 be cut into curious ra; er Pencils, to draw the 
 out ftrokes of any Figure you defign, Sallow- 
 wood fo burnt that you may do the like by it,and 
 if thefe firokes hit not at firft to due proporti- 
 on, they may be rubbed out with the Feathe* 
 of a Mallard's Wing, and fo till you find them 
 right, then go over your Strokes with a ftrong 
 well pointed Pencil, either of red or black 
 Lead : To make the Impreffion more even and 
 regular, it will be proper to have Pens made of 
 Raven or Crow Quils to finifli the finer Strokes, 
 alfo a Rule and Compafs with Three feet,to take 
 in and out at the Points as you have occafion,the 
 one of white or red Chalk , the other of Black 
 I,ead, and a Third of any other Paftile, and 
 thefe in moll Drawings are proper to mark out 
 equal diftances after the drawing of^the Out- 
 fh-ofces ; there are other things reqaired, which 
 in their propef^lace I fhall fpeak of. 
 
 Being thus far entred, come a little nearer to 
 the Practice, and make your entrance on it with 
 plain Geometrical Figures, fuch as are the Cir- 
 cle, Square, Oval, Cone, Triangle, Cylinder, 
 
 which 
 
'ArPs Mxfter-Viece. 9 
 
 which at fhft ufe your felf to mark out with 
 your Rule and Compafs, till you can readily 
 do it with your Hand, and thefe will much af- 
 fift you in the beginning of this curious under- 
 taking, the Circle well made, will direft yoa 
 in Orbicular forms, as the Glebe of the Earth, 
 Spherical World, Moon, Sun, and the like; 
 is very proper in confining the Pi&ure you 
 are to Copy ; the Oval gives you Directions 
 for the Mouth and Face, the Foot of a Wine- 
 glafs, the Mouth of a Well, and the like : 
 The Cone afiifts in Drawing Columns, Spires, 
 top of Towers, Steeples, $"c: The Triangle is 
 of admirable ufe in making the half Face ; the 
 Cylinder gives yon affiftance in drawing Co- 
 lumns, Pillars, Pilafter?, and other things be- 
 longing to Archite&ure ; the Poligon may be 
 alfo ufed for Ground Plats, Fortifications, &c. 
 and Angles and Arches in Profpe&ive. 
 
 Thefc things premifed, try to Draw leveral 
 farts of F.-uits and Flowers, as Grapes, Cher- 
 ries, Peaches, Apples, Apricots, Tulips, Pink?, 
 &c. alfo Infects, Trees, Branches, and the like, 
 and from thefe proceed to practice on 3ird$ 3 
 Beafts, &c confider well their proportion, co<- 
 lour, flownefs, fwifenefs, fiercenefs, and many 
 other things natural to them, and the better at 
 firft, till your Mind can well frame fuch Ideas, 
 it will be proper to have good Drawings :o i* 
 mitate; and (o go on by degrees to other 
 things, as Fifh, Mellons, Roots, Oranges, &c. 
 and by no means miilake their futable lively co- 
 lours, nor proper form, and then you may 
 
10 Art's Mafier-Viece. 
 
 yentur c on Humane Fices and Bodies, where- 
 in lies the excellency of this Art. 
 
 Of Drawing Faces > &C. 
 
 When you come to Draw a Face, you muft 
 
 well weigh and confider in what poftureit mud 
 
 be done, whether fide- ways, upward, forward, 
 
 or downward, touching lightly the Features, 
 
 where the Nofe, Eyes, Mouth and Chin ought 
 
 to (land, then go more perfectly over them, 
 
 for the Circles, Squares, and Triangles ufed in 
 
 this matter, may fuffictently guide you where 
 
 the Nofe, Eyes, Mouth and Chin fhouldftand ; 
 
 but in taking the Features, obferve with a 
 
 ftedfaft Eye, the principal Mufcles in the Face, 
 
 which in perfons of years appear very much, 
 
 and there is ufually to be obferved a threefold 
 
 proportion in a Face, as in the firft place, from 
 
 the top of the Forehead to the Eye-brows, in 
 
 the fecond place, from thence to the bottom 
 
 of the Nofe, and laftly, from thence to the 
 
 bottom of the Chin, obferving in this cafe a 
 
 due proportion in the length of the Forehead 
 
 and Nofe. 
 
 In a full Face, the diftance between the Eye- 
 brows, eonfrfts of the length of one Eye. but 
 where there is a fide, or three quarters Face, 
 the diftanre muft be leflened anfwerable to the 
 proportion, the Noftrils muft be placed dire&- 
 ly againft the nether corner of the Eyes, and 
 if the Face you draw be Plump, or Fat, the 
 Cheeks muft fwell ; but confider, in a Leant 
 Face, the Jaw-bones ftick out, and the Cheeks 
 fall fomewhat in. In 
 
r jirt 9 s Mafter-Tiece. 1 1 
 
 In a fmiling Countenance, the Corners of the 
 Mouth turn fomewhat upwards, and in a four 
 frowning Countenance, the Forehead is ben- 
 ding, and Wrinkles appear on ths upper part" 
 of the Nofe. 
 
 In Drawing a fore- right Face, you mud 
 make a perfect Oval, divided by two Lines in- 
 to three equal proportions, in the firft part 
 place the Eyes, in the fecond the Noftrils, and 
 in the third the Mouth, keeping the Eyes an e« 
 qual diftancefrom each other. 
 
 In Drawingan upright Head, you multmake 
 it in equal divifions, with three Lines every way, 
 either upwards, downwards, higher or lower, 
 divided as the former. 
 
 To Draw the fhortned or enclining Face, 
 obferve how the Lines agree, and fo in thtic 
 proper places you may Draw the Mouth and 
 Nofe, and thereftof the parts after you have 
 brought your hand a little into pra&ice ; and 
 note, whatfoever proportion the Face bears, 
 your cut-ftrokes nuiftbe formed accordingly. 
 
 As for the Nofe, you mult among other 
 things, particularly obferve the roundnefs, hol- 
 lownefs, and Indentings of the Noftrils. 
 
 As for the Hands, their Poftures are various, 
 but atruemeafure muft beobfervedin it, ac- 
 cording to the proporrion you draw, as like- 
 wife the Arras, as far as they appear bare, then 
 proceed to Draw the Feet with meafure and 
 without, but for thefe it will be requisite to get 
 Drawings to puftice on at firfr, then pra&iee 
 Drawing Feet *nd Legs conjunct or feparate, 
 and proceeding hokn the Members, draw the 
 
 other 
 
12 AYfi MdBfr-¥h,i. 
 
 other parts of the body, and pra&ice fit ft on x 
 Child, wherein there is more eafe, becaufe they 
 are of a Fatter and Plumper Face and Body, 
 the Sinews, Lines and Mufcles, not appearing as 
 in Men sn 1 Women. 
 
 In Drawing, begin at the Head, and fo pro- 
 ceed by degrees to the Feet, running it lightly 
 over at the tuft, and as you fee occafion, en- 
 creafe the fulnefs, let the parallel Joints and Si- 
 news be equally proportioned, as alfo the Muf- 
 cles, and their Attendants, and exa&ly oppo- 
 fitc, and the Motions of the Body be anfwe- 
 rable to each other, and the Limbs a true Sy- 
 metry, one not being larger than the other, nor 
 longer where Nature requires it not. 
 
 In Shadowing , obferve to caft them ever 
 ©ne way, as in the figure of a Woman, if you 
 begin the Shadow at the left* Cheek, youmuft 
 continue the like on the left fide the Neck, Bo- 
 dy, and alj other parts, unlefs the Light fide 
 of it requires to be dark, by reafon fome other 
 Body ftanding between the light and it, as pue 
 the cafe three Men ftand together, the middle 
 Figure muft be darkened by the foremoft, un» 
 lefs the light by facing it comes between them. 
 
 Obferve, that all Shadows, the further off 
 they are, grow fainrer, and circular Bodies 
 muft have a circular Shadow, according to the 
 light chat makes it. 
 
 In Drawing a Figure ftanding, Draw that 
 L*g the Body ftands firm upon, fhait and ftea- 
 dy, or elfe the Figure will feem to decline, as 
 if it were falling.^ 
 
 As 
 
Art's Maftlr-Yuce. 13 
 
 As in naked Figures, the out-lines "are requi- 
 red to be Drawn fir ft, fo do it in Drapery or 
 Clothing, leaving fpaces within for your grea- 
 ter or lefler Folds, and break them into leiTer, 
 that may be contained within tbem, and the 
 clofer the Garment fits to the Body, thefmaller 
 and narrower muft be the Folds, and in Sha- 
 dowing the Innermofl", it muft be the harder, 
 and the outermoft'the fofter, continue the great 
 Folds, but as for the leiTer, break them off 
 where occafion requires it ; and the finer the 
 Drapery is, the finer and (harper muft the Folds 
 be, and the Shadow the ftronger and finer to 
 the Eye, always obferving, that the Garment 
 that fits clofe, as the Body Coat of a Man, or 
 Breads of a Woman, and the like, require no 
 Folding, but rather with a fweet Shadow re- 
 prefent that part of the Body, that the Gar» • 
 rnent appears to cover, as Womens Breads 
 with a fweet round Shadow, and the like. 
 
 Of Colours uftful in Limning or Vainting^ 
 and other matters. 
 
 The next thing to be confidered, the Cloth ■ 
 primed, and the Drawing put on, is the prepa 
 ring your Colours," which hi Oil Painting mufl 
 be with Linfsed Oil, uolefs for Linen, and 
 then Walnu* is a ^rftat deal better, for it will - 
 nor turn yellow as the; other in time will^ when- 
 mixed with curious w hite. 
 
 You muft Grind your. Colours on a Stone 
 with a Mullcr, till they are as fine as Butter, 
 &c. The Colours proper to be ufed in Lim- 
 ning are. The 
 
T4 Art's Mafter-Viece] 
 
 The Blacks; Sea-cole black, Ivory black 
 Lamp black, and Earth of Collen ; the White, 
 White- Lead ; the Green, Terravet, Verditer 
 and Verdigreace ; the Yellow, Spruce Oaker, 
 Pink or Piement, and Mafticot ; the Bluej, 
 Smalt, Bifs, Indico, and Ultramarine; the 
 Reds, Red-Lead, Vermillion, Lake, Indian- 
 red, and Ornatto ; the Colours indifferent are 
 Umber, Spanifh brown, burnt Spruce. 
 
 Thefe are the chief to be laid in Oil, but Ivo- 
 ry, Spruce Oaker and Umber muft be burnt 
 before they are ground ; and as for Mafticot, 
 Ultramarine Mafticot, Vermillion, Smalt and 
 Orpiment, you may temper them on your 
 Pallate without grinding, though grinding is 
 better, becaufe it mixes them the better with 
 the Oil, and makes them dilate and fpread 
 more eafily : And what of thefe are to be 
 burnt, perform it in a Crucible, taking care 
 they be not overburnt, to lofe their TinQure. 
 
 Take care in the next place to get good Pen- 
 cils of allfizes, proportionable to your Woik, 
 a Palate or Board to lay Colours on whilft you 
 are uftng them, an Eafle to place your Cloth 
 upon or againft, and a (training Frame, to 
 which it muft be nailed, a Moll ftick or Stay, 
 madeof Brafil, or fome ponderous Wood, not 
 fubje&tobend, about a yard long, at one end 
 tye a Ball of ravelled Cotton, with a Leather 
 over it, fo that with your Left band, holding 
 it againft the Work, you may fupport your 
 right Arm with it, whilft you are Working. 
 
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Art's Mafler-Vkee. if 
 
 Of Mixing or Tempering of Colours. 
 
 To make a Violet colour, take Indico, White 
 Lead, and Lake, mix them well, and the mote 
 oriels of each quantity, will make it deeper or 
 lighter. 
 
 A Lead colour make of White and Indico, 
 well mixed and tempered together. 
 
 For a Scarlet colour, take Lake, Red- Lead, 
 and a fmall quantity of Vermillion. 
 
 For a Flame colour, take Red- Lead and 
 Mafticot heightened with white. 
 
 For a Light green, take Pink and Smalt, and 
 as you fee occafion lighten it with white. 
 
 For a Purple colour, take Spanilh brown, 
 Indico, and white, well tempered together. 
 
 For a Bay colour, mix Spanifli brown and 
 white. 
 
 For a Murrey colour, mix Lake, and White; 
 and fo by often tempering Colours, and Pra- 
 ctice, you may find out the reft. 
 
 Of the fir ft Operation or Sitting. 
 
 Having thus far proceeded, it will be time to 
 begin your Work , and haying laid your 
 Ground for the general Complexion, and Drawn 
 the Out- Lines, which you muft do with Lake 
 and White mingled, Drawing v«y faintly, that 
 if there be any fault it may be rubbed out and 
 amended ; the proportion of the Face Drawn, 
 add to rhe former colour a fmall proportion of 
 Red-Lead, tempering it faintly to the colour of 
 
 the 
 
16 Art's Mafier-Tkcz 
 
 the Cheeks and Lips, the tip of the Chin and 
 Ears, about the Eyes and Roots of the Hair, 
 placing red Shadows, and the Shadows muft 
 not be put in with the fiat of the Pencil, but 
 with fmal! touches, after the manner of hatch- 
 ing, and in this wife go over the Face, and 
 cover the Ground-work, with thefe and the 
 like fhadows, but in the dead Colours your Cu- 
 riofity need not be great, only ftfive as near as 
 you can to imitate Nature, for the roughneft 
 of the Colours may be mended at the fecond 
 Operation. 
 
 Having duly placed and proportioned your 
 red Shadows, proceed to put your faint blue 
 Shadows about the Corners of the Eyes and 
 Balls, &t. and the greyifh blue under the Eyes, 
 and about the Temples, working them fweetly 
 and faintly over, by d grees, beginning the 
 Shadow as the Light fills, as likewife the hard 
 Shadows on the dark fide of the Face, under 
 the Eye- brows. Chin, Nofe and N?ck, with 
 ftrong touches on thofe places, fo pa « s to the 
 light fide of the Face, and bring all your 
 Work together to an equal roundnefs; yet at 
 this time give not perfection to any particular 
 part, but well view the Work, and confider 
 how- near you coma to the Life, not only in 
 likenefs, but pofture, colouring, drc. 
 
 Having now wrought the faint Shadows into 
 the red Shadows, you may take a touch at the 
 Hair, difpoflng it in fuch Curls, Folds, &c. as. 
 beft contribute to Grace and Ornament, only 
 drawing it with Colours finable to the Life, 
 and deepen it fomewhat more ftrongly in the 
 
 skepefi 
 
Art's Mafer-Viece. 17 
 
 deeped fhadowed places, and fo defift from 
 your firft Operation. 
 
 0/ the fecond Sitting or Operation. 
 
 The Party to be drawn in this fecond Sit- 
 ting, muft take the place and pofture as before, 
 and now you muft take a more curious furvey 
 of the Lines and Features, and as you drew 
 them over roughly before, bow is the proper 
 time to fweeten them with the fame Colours, by 
 Working and Drawing them one into another, 
 fo that no rough edge or lump of Colour may 
 appear, and you muft do this with a Pencil 
 lbarper than the former, to render the Shadow 
 fmooth and fofc. 
 
 This done, proceed to the Back'fide of your 
 Pi&ure, and if there be a Curtain required, 
 and it be fuppofed of blue Satten, then temper 
 Bice with your Oil, and draw the out lines of 
 the Curtain, as alfo your Pi&ure, and lay it o- 
 ver very thin and airy with a large Pencil, that 
 it may be the whole ground, intended to be 
 done with Blue, and then lay it over again 
 with a fubftantial Body, with the fame Colour, 
 doing it fwiftly that no part of the Colour may 
 dry before it be all finifhed, and in the fame 
 manner you may lay the backfide with any 
 Colour. 
 
 This done, lay your Linen of a fair white, 
 and your Drapery flat, with the Colour you 
 intend it, then view the Face again well, no- 
 ting what Shadows are too light or too deep, 
 and labour to reduce the feveral ffeadoivs to their 
 
 perfection*. 
 
1 8 'Art's Matter-Piece. 
 
 perfection, then draw the Lines out of the 
 Eye lids, and Shadow the entrance into the Ears, 
 the deepnefs of the Eye-brows, and all the mort: 
 material Marks and Notes in the Face, do this, 
 with a curious (harp Pencil, then heighten the 
 Hair, deepening it as it appears in the Life, cart- 
 ing over the ground fome loofe Hairs, whicft 
 will not only make ic look airy, but feem as if 
 the Pi&ure flood a diftance from the Curtain. 
 
 In fhadowing the Lines, which muft be done 
 curioufly, ufe black, white, and a little blue, 
 deepen the black with Ivory-black, and put to 
 it a little quantity of Indico or Lake, and fo 
 the fecond Operation is finiflied. 
 
 The third Sitting or Operation. 
 
 Herein where you find any defeS, or judge 
 it reasonable, you muft give ftrong touches, 
 taking curious heed for the rounding of the 
 Face, which will now be better accompli died 
 than before, obferving diligently what yet may 
 conduce to fimilitude, as Moles, Scars, Cafts 
 with the Eyes, drawing of the Mouth, and the 
 
 For Garments or Ornaments, the Ground 
 for Blue being laid with Bice, the deepening 
 muft be Indico, and a little Lake, the lightening 
 white, very fine, faint and fair, and for the 
 greater Ornament, the Light may be mixed 
 with Silver or Gold, but of Drapery more par- 
 ticularly in Mezzotinto Painting, for Pearl 
 Colour the Ground muft be White and Indico, 
 and the Shadow Pink and Black j if the Body re- 
 
 quires 
 
Art's Mafter-Fiece. 19 
 
 quires to be in Armour, let Leaf Silver be the 
 Ground, and when it is well dried and burnifli* 
 ed, work the Shadow with Silver, Umber and 
 Indico, and the Shadow on the Silver as the 
 Life dirtcK 
 
 For Gold Armour, lay Shell- Gold for the 
 Ground, or Liquid Gold, and fhadow it with 
 Lake, Englifh Oakcr, and a mixture of Gold. 
 
 For Drawing a Fair Complexion. 
 
 To do this, make a mixture of a fmall quan- 
 tity of White, and twice as much Lake and 
 Vermillion, temper them well with the flat of 
 a Knife upon the Pallat, and let it be ufed as 
 the deepeft Carnation in the Face, then adding 
 a little part more of White, refwve that for a 
 lighter Carnation, and yet a third part being 
 refirved, add more White to it till it comes to 
 the lighted colour in the Face, and fo proceed 
 to prepare the faint fhadows. 
 
 In doing this, take Smalt, and mix it with a 
 little White, which may conveniently ferve 
 for the Eyes, then f parate the greateft quan- 
 tity, and add to the reft a little Pink, and thefe 
 well tempered will be fufficient for the greenifh 
 fhadows in the Face, then proceed to prepare 
 your deep fhadows, do it with Pink, Ivory- 
 black and L^ke, a like quantity of each, tem- 
 per them well together, and if the Complexion 
 you draw, requires redder fhadows, add more 
 Lake j if bluer or greyer, more Black, if yel- 
 lower, more Pink. 
 
 Having prepared your Pallat with fuitable 
 Colours for a fair Face, confider again what 
 
 other 
 
20 Art's Majfer-Piece. 
 
 other Colours are required ; if the Complexion 
 be more Brown or Swarthy, and in fuch cafes 
 temper the Colours as before, putting a little 
 quantity of burnt Oaker amongft: the Lake, 
 and Vermillion and White , that it may a- 
 mongft your heightened Colours appear Taw- 
 ny ; and in this cafe, temper fo much Oaker as 
 will juft turn it ; and for your very deep, and 
 very faint Shadows, ufe the fame as'for the for- 
 mer Complexion. 
 
 For 2 Tawny Complexion ufe the fame as 
 before, however, prepare the Shadows, of burnt 
 Oaker and Umber. 
 
 For a very black or dark Complexion, prc» 
 pare the Shadows as the foregoing, but as for 
 your lightening, take Lake, burnt Oaker, with 
 White and Black, however, but a little of the 
 White muft be put in at firft, that by degrees 
 it may be the better worked up, and oblerve 
 that the fingle Shadows laid at firftupon you? 
 Palate, and well tempered according to the 
 foregoing directions, ferve as Shadows for all. 
 Complexions. 
 
 Further Direffions for Colouring Gar- 
 wents, 8>CC. 
 
 Thefe Garments, or Drapery, require to be 
 nade futable in their Colours; for Red there- 
 fore, lay the Ground with VerrnHJion glaze it 
 over with Lake, and heighten it with White. 
 
 For Scarlet, let VermilHon be the lighted, 
 deepened with Lake, and heightened with In- 
 dian ted, 
 
 Fo& 
 
Arfs Mafier-Tiece. 21 
 
 For Crimfom Velvet, lay a Ground of burnt 
 Qaker, Vermillion and Indian Red, glaze tt 
 With Lake, and touch it up with Vermillion. 
 
 For a fad Red, heighten Indian Red with 
 White, and deepen with Black, Pink and Lake, 
 well mixed together. 
 
 For Green, heighten Bice and Pink with 
 Afafticot, and deepen it with Pink and Indico. 
 For Green Velvet, lay the dead colour with 
 a little White and Lamp-black, glaze it with 
 Verdigreafe, deepen with Pink and Indico, and 
 heighten with White and Pink. 
 
 For Yellow, ufe Mafticot , Umber and Yel- 
 low Oaker, lay the dead colour with Mafticot 
 and White in the higheft places, and with Oak- 
 er in the meaneft, in the darkeft with Umber, 
 glazing when dry with Pink. 
 
 For Bine Garments, take Indico and White, 
 Srft laying the White in its due place, and then 
 your mean colour, viz, Indico and White, well 
 tempered in their proper places, then deepen 
 with Indico, and when dry, glaze it with Ul- 
 tramarine. 
 
 For Black Garments, let the dead colour be 
 Lampblack and a little Verdigreafe, and go 
 over it when dry with a little Ivory-black, and 
 when you have heightened it with White, go 
 over the Work with Verdigreafe and Ivory - 
 black. 
 
 For Orange colour, mix Lake and Red-Lead, 
 laying the lighteit part with Red- Lead and 
 White, the mean part only with Red Lead, and 
 the deeper with Like , and if it be neceflary 
 you may heighten with White. 
 
 For 
 
S2 Art's Mailer-Vied. 
 
 For a Cloth colour, let the Ground be Um- 
 ber ?and White, and for the deeper Shadows 
 Black and Umber, for the mean Oaker and 
 Umber, and heighten it with Oaker and White, 
 and fo much for colouring Garments. 
 
 lnfcrutUons how to Frame and Paint 
 
 Landskips. 
 
 Tn this Work of Painting with Oil, begin 
 with the Sky and Sun Beams, and the lighter 
 parts, and then the Yellow, which mud be done 
 with Mafticot and White, the next your blue 
 Sky with Smalt, leaving no part of the Ground 
 uncovered, but lay the Colours fmooth all o- 
 ver, working the Sky downwards, towards the 
 Horizon, ftill fuffering it to grow fainter as it 
 enclines nearer to the Earth, and work the tops 
 of Mountains and other Objects very remote, 
 fo faint as they may appear loft in Mift or Air, 
 and as for the neareft and loweft Ground, it 
 mud be a dark brown Earth colour, enclining 
 a little to Yellowifh and Green, as the nature of 
 it requires, the next a light Green, and fo pro- 
 ceed gradually; as they lofe in their diftance you 
 muft leflen their Colour, obferving not to make 
 any thing that is to be feen at a great diftance, 
 perfe& or really, becaufe you muft imagine it 
 is at fuch a diftance that you cannot well difcern 
 it, but exprefs it in Colours weakly and faintly, 
 as your Eye Judges it may be, always taking 
 notice to place the Light oppofite to the Dark, 
 which will very much extend the profpeft, and 
 do it fo that the Shadows may lofe in their pro- 
 portion 
 
'Art's Ma ft tr -"Piece. 2% 
 
 portion of diftance, their force by little and 
 little, as they remove from the Eye, obferving 
 always to put in the ftrongeft Shadows neareft ; 
 put no Moon nor Stars but in a Night-piece, 
 fory they are not otherways naturally proper, 
 becaufe they cannot be well feen in the day ; if 
 you imitate an over-caft Sky, where black 
 Clouds threaten a Storm, the Shadows may be 
 on the meeting parts of the Clouds, this may 
 be alfo done with Colours mixed with Water 
 wherein Gum-Arabick has been diflolved. 
 
 If in any fair Landskip you exprefs the Light 
 of the Sun, always obferve throughout the 
 whole Piece, that you caft the Lights of your 
 Trees, Rocks, Hills, Buildings, Ruins, and all 
 other things exprefled in it that way ; obferve 
 alfo to leflsn your Bodies proportionable, as they 
 are nearer or farther diftant, and carry it off 
 fo far that the Earth and Sky; or Water feem 
 to meet, Rivers as they run to a diftance muft 
 leflcn their Streams, fo Ships or Boats, and the 
 like. 
 
 As for Living Creatures, Beads, Fowls and 
 Serpents, or Infects you muft confider their 
 Proportion .Shape and Colour,and get Draughts 
 or Patterns, which will be better than Printed, 
 Directions, and thefe kinds being numerous, 
 f or Brevities fake I muft omit to treat of them. 
 
 To lay en Mezz,o*tinto Prints on Glajs. 
 
 In undertaking this, curioufly lay the Prints 
 flat- ways in warm Water, of the fineft and thin- 
 eft Paper, for that which is rough and thick 
 wjII not do near fo well, if at all, let them 
 
 foak 
 
24 Art's Mafter-Viece. 
 
 foak well- and your Glafs being very white and 
 thin, go over it with Venice Turpentine fpread 
 thin with a pliable Knife, and dab it all over 
 with your Finger, that the Turpentine may 
 feetn rough. 
 
 This done, take the (baked Print and lay ic 
 on a clean cloth even, then prefs it with ano- 
 ther, to take out the Water, then lay it on a 
 Glafs, the Print next it, beginning at one end, 
 ftroaking outwards the part already fixed to the 
 Glafs, that neither Wind nor Water may be re- 
 tained between, to wrinkle it, then with a lit- 
 tle Spunge, or your Fingers, wet the backfide, 
 and lightly by degrees roll off the Paper care- 
 fully, without making holeg, efpecially in the 
 Lights, which are the tenderefr, and when the 
 Print appears very tranfparent on the backfide, 
 let it dry about Two hours , then varnifb it o- 
 ver with Turpentine or Maftick Varnifh, till 
 you can fee through it, and a Night's drying 
 will prepare it to be worked on with Colours. 
 
 If you would have all the Paper off, fo that 
 nothing but the Print fhould remain , lay it as 
 before, with Oil of Maflick,and a little Turpen- 
 tine, and a Brulh will fetch off all the Paper. 
 
 To Paint Land skip of Mez,z,o-tinto. jj 
 
 As for the Pofture to do any of this Work, I 
 the beft is fitting to a true Light, your Pencils 
 mart be fine, and in the firft place glaze all the 
 places that require, and if you would have them 
 thin as they fhould be, and foon dry, mix Var- 
 nifli as they are laid on, and in Four hours you 
 may venture other Colours, In J 
 
Ari'i Mafter-?icce. 2f 
 
 In this Work glaze the neareft and greaceft 
 Tree?, Ground them with brown Pink, or if 
 you fancy them greener, ufe difhlled Verdi- 
 greafe, and where the Leaves and Weeds that 
 appear in feme Landskips ve:y fprightly 
 and extraordinary green , muft be glazed with 
 diftilled Verdigreafe , and Dutch Pink, the 
 Trees appearing farther off with only the for- 
 mer ; the Hills, Rocks, Mountains and Trees 
 at the greatcft diftance, glaze with Smalt, a lit- 
 tle Lake, and Verdigreafe thinly mixed with 
 Varnifli ; as for the Skies, ufe Ultramarine or 
 fine Smalt, mixed with thin varnilh, glaze it o- 
 ver Two or Three times with a large clean 
 Pencil, and nimble ftrokes, if Buildings or Ru- 
 ins of Buildings appear in if, finifh them firft; 
 and the mrxtute of Colours for thefe confift 
 of Yellow, Black, White, and now and then a 
 tinfture of Red. 
 
 To fin (h Ground Tree* and Skies, begin 
 with the neareft and largeft Trees, do over the 
 Jighteft Leaves with white Pink and a little 
 Smalt, and neatly do over the darkeft and neareft 
 Leaves, wirh a little Pencil diped in Varnifla, 
 and thofe Trees you would have very beauti- 
 ful, Paint with a mixture of Verdigreafe, Yel- 
 low Mafticot and White, the darker parts with 
 white Verdigreafe and Pink, as alfo thofe Trees 
 you glaze with Verdigreafe only, they being 
 very light mixed with White. 
 
 As for the Skies and Foreskips, if any Clouds 
 
 appear, let them be touched with Varnifli, and 
 
 a light colour made of white Lake and yellow 
 
 Oaker ; touch alfo with thefe the light parts of 
 
 B Hills 
 
16 Arts Mafter-Tiecr. 
 
 Hills, likewife Towns, and the remoteft df- 
 dance; then mix White and Smalt, as light as 
 conveniently may be, and' Paint over the Sky, 
 add a tintture of Lake for the dark Clouds ; lee 
 the Colours lie even and thin, and when fini- 
 fhed, give it time to dry, to make it look more 
 lively, fet the Pi&ore againft the light, that the 
 Shadows may appear. 
 
 Of Tatntwg Figures this "way \ at Men t 
 Womtn, &C. 
 
 In Painting a Face, where there are deep 
 Shadows, glaze and touch them thinly with 
 brown Pink, Lake and Varniih, alfo the black 
 Ball, and white Speck of the Eye, as you will 
 be directed by the Print, the round white Ball 
 mud likewife be of a convenient colour ; if 
 the Lips are to be of a curious Red, glaze them 
 with Lake or Cazamine, and then begin with 
 the dark fide of the Face, and Paint the Sha- 
 dows with the-Colour more Red than ufual ; to 
 do this, Yellow Pink, Vermillion and White 
 ire mod proper; and note, no Varniih muft 
 be ufed in Painting Flefh Colours, except in 
 glazing the Shadows, for the Varniih drys fo 
 faft, that you cannot fweeien the Shadows of. 
 theFleft. 
 
 After this give a few touches on the flrong ; 
 eft light of the Face, as the Forehead, top of • 
 the Nofe by the Eyes, Chin and Mouth, which 
 Colour muft be made white with pale Mafti- 1 
 cot, be Yellow- Oaker, and a little Vermillion 
 mixed, Accotding to the Complexion-antended,. 
 
 then 
 
'Art's Mafler-Tiece* 27 
 
 then mix that Colour a little datker, and lay It 
 on all the Face that before you had not very 
 carefully painted, yet that for the Mouth and 
 Cheeks muft be fomewhat redder. 
 
 Now with a fine clean Pencil, that has beerc 
 worn a little, hatch and fweeten the Flefh Co- 
 lours and Shadows fweetly together, taking 
 care to cleanfe your Pencil as often as it is re- 
 tjuifite, fo that whilft the piece is moift arid 
 wet, you may tegulate Cheeks too pale, or any 
 other defect. 
 
 If the Complexion be Swarthy , mix the 
 Fleflx colour with White, Brown, or Yellow 
 Oaker, and light Red, with agreeable ' Sha- 
 dows; and by this means you may Paint na- 
 ked Breafts, Bodies or Hands, always being 
 careful that your Pencil be (readily guided, foe 
 the leaf! flip mars the Feature, and trefpafs 
 not on Features and Lines of a disagreeing 
 Colour. 
 
 iloiv te Taint tbc Hair. 
 
 In this Painting you have no occafion foufr 
 Colours or Varnifh near fo dark as the Life, 
 for the Print contributes to the darkening or! 
 it, as fuppofe you were ro Paint Black Hair, you 
 mix black RedOaker with a touch of light Red 
 or Lake, and thefe may well produce an Afh- 
 colour, and the Hair coloured with it, will fhow 
 you a natural Black ; if you would make the 
 Curls ftronger, with a lighter colour, toucfe 
 the lighted part, and the darkeft with the con- 
 trary, which you may well fee through, if the 
 Colours are not laid too thick. 
 
 8 2 . Qf 
 
2>3 Art's Majitr-Vicu. 
 
 ■O/ Painting Garments or Drr^ery. 
 
 If you are to Paint Cloth or Drapery, in a 
 broken Colour, obferve carefully its mixture, 
 however you mull make three degrees of that 
 colour, one the proper Colour, another. more 
 light, and the laft darker, for it mud be for the 
 darkeft folds, and the lighted for the, lighted 
 Pleats, and that between both for the ether 
 parts. 
 
 With a worn Pencil fweeten the Colour, fo 
 that the Folds may lie hard, and if you intend to 
 make a Fringe, Imbroidery or the like, add to 
 them Shell or Powdered Gold or Silver, 
 mix your Minerals with Gum water, having a 
 fine Pencil to Hatch or Imbroidcr rhe Flowers, 
 and touch the Fringes and other Imbioideries 
 before you glaze, after this manner, viz. I 
 imagine the changeable Draperies Ground to be 
 Purple, and the light Yellow, then muft I fake 
 a fine Pencil dipped in Varnifh, and thinly 
 touch all the lighttfi part* of the Folds with 
 Yellow Mafticor, if there be occafion to repeat 
 it, for it muft be granted the Colour muft be 
 very thin with Varnifh 
 
 When dry I muft gla*e'all over with Lake, 
 Smalt, or Ultramarine, once or twice with 
 Varnifh, and fo it muft dry, and then I mix 
 three degrees of Purple colour, of Smalt Lake 
 and White, and lay them on as direSed, and 
 by thefc meafures fitting your Colours futable 
 to your Intention, you may Paint any other 
 coloured Drapery, which in this little Book 
 I want room to particularize. Th« 
 
Art 7 * Majltr-Viete. 29 
 
 Tile Cufkm Art and ATj'shry of Jnparirg v 
 
 To be' a Proficent in th'j Art, fcveral maN 
 f«rs are required, and thefe you mutt confider 
 as furable, not only in property but goodneft, 
 that your Coft and Labour may not prove ifj 
 vain. 
 
 As, two Strainers trade of Flanel, moderate- 
 ly fine, or of conrfe Linen, in tbe nature of a 
 TuhneJ, for to drain your Lac Varnifh. and 
 the other for y^ur White Varnifli, and the 
 firft of tbefe may ferve for Lackers, when your 
 occaflon requires you fj make rhem ; befules 
 thefr, there are rfquired two Tunnels of Tiri 
 for the fame purpofe as before, GLfs Bottles 
 and Vials fmall and great, muft be in a readt- 
 neft, as to fuic with the quantities of Varniih 
 your bufinefs requires you to ufe, and Gal- 
 ly Pots to put it in when you defign to work, 
 as alfo to mix your Blacks in, when they come 
 to be ordered with other things. 
 
 An for Tool*, they are no lefs reqvjifire, for 
 wirhnut them, this Art would be inligmficanr, 
 and therefore to furnilh yonr felf with them, 
 you muft have Pencils according to the great, 
 nefs or fmallnefs of the things intended to 
 Work on ; thofe for the Varnifh muft be made 
 of Camels Hair very foft, and are of various 
 prices as to the largenefs or finenefs ; likewife 
 drawing Pencils, placed in Swallow, Duck, ov 
 Goofe Quills, as the finenefs or largenefs of the 
 ftroke requires, and the longeft haired Pencil* 
 are accounted the bed in this bufinefs ; you muft 
 B 3 have 
 
3-0 jirfs Maiier-Titce. 
 
 have jn a readinefs a confiderable number o£ 
 Muffs 1-fhells to mix Colours and Minerals in, 
 as the occafion (hall require it. Dutch Ruihes, 
 are another material ufeful in this matter, to 
 fmooth the Woik before it is Vat niflied, or take 
 ©if the knobs or grittinefs from the Ground, or 
 when id's Varnifhed. 
 
 Tripoly is proper to Polifli this Work with. 
 when Varnifhed, being reduced into fine pow- 
 der and fifted ; as for Linen Rags, you muft be 
 provided with rhem, both fine and courfe, to 
 clear and polilh this Wor k, alfo Olive Oil for 
 a cleat ir g ; as many of thefe things fhall be di- 
 rected hereafter, as they occur in due place, in 
 the Work- 
 
 Several things neceffary to be ufed 
 in this Art, &c. 
 
 Of Spirit of Wine* 
 
 This is of main ufe in Varniflung, and if it 
 be not properly qualified, it will fpoil theVar- 
 nifh, and not be capable, for want of Strength 
 to diffolve your Gums, or make them fpread, 
 and fo consequently lie uneven upon the Work, 
 and to know when this Spirit is fufficiently re- 
 ctified, put fome of it in a Spoon, and put a 
 little Gunpowder in, and if it burns out, blows 
 up the Gunpowder, and leaves the Spoon dry, 
 then it is a good Spirit, but failing in this, and 
 leaving the Spoon moift when the flame extin- 
 guiflies. it is not fit for your ufe. 
 
 I 0/ 
 
» Art's Mafter-Vieca }i 
 
 Of Gum Anima, Gum Lae, and 
 Gum Sandarack. 
 
 To chufe thefe well, as for the firiT, tak e 
 
 the'moft tranfparent, cleared and whitefr, which 
 is the beft. 
 
 The fecond alfo, called Seed Lack, chufe 
 that free from drofs, flicks or duf 1 ., large grain- 
 ed ard bright. 
 
 As for the third, take that which is large 
 and very white, calling the lead yellow, free 
 from duft and drofs. 
 
 Of Shll-Lac, U 'bit : e R, fin, Bok-Armoni- 
 ack, and Venise-Tur pcntine. 
 
 As for the firft, that ir heft which is mote 
 perfpicuoufly tranfparent, will eaftty -melt, and 
 draw out with your Fingers as fine ai a Hair. 
 
 As for the fecond, chufe for your ute that 
 which is the whiterr and clearer}. 
 
 As for the third, that is moft fit for your 
 purpofe, that is free from grittinefs or gravel, 
 and is of a blackifh red colour, commonly 
 called French-bole. 
 
 Of Gum Ekmi, Gum Arahick, and 
 Gum Capal. 
 
 As for the firft, chufe the hardeft, and freeft 
 from dirt and drofs. 
 Chufe the fecond white and tranfparent. 
 
 B 4 • A- 
 
£i Art's Ma fin- Piece. 
 
 As Tor the third, that is beft for your ufe 
 that is whiteft, free from drofs, and the thick 
 dark ftufF incorpotated with it. 
 
 Of Garnbogwm, IfrgUfs, r Ber,jamiif^ or 
 Benzoin, Dragons Blood, &C. 
 
 Thefe are other things necefTary in this Art, 
 and ought to be well chofen. 
 
 As for the fii ft, the beft is that of a bright 
 yellow, free from dirty thicknefs and drofs. 
 
 Chufe as to the frcond, that which is whiteft 
 and cle2retr, free from yellownefs. 
 
 As for the third, the belt is that of a bright 
 red colour, much like ro clarified black Rofin, 
 free frcm all drofs and filth. 
 
 The fourth, when the beft, is of a bright 
 red, free from drofs, it may be had as the o- 
 thers at the Druggifts, but the prices I fet not 
 down, bscaufe they generally rife and fall. 
 
 Of Sik-er Dttfi, Brafs T>uft, Green GoU y 
 Dirty G4J } Corpers^ Foivckr, Tin, &C. 
 
 • The Silver Doft, the heft is brought from 
 beyond the S?as, and is known from the Coun- 
 terfeit by being fqucezed between your Fin- 
 ger and Thumb, giving a gloiious Luftre, as 
 indeed it does in the Work. 
 
 Frafs Duft, by Artifts called Dull Gold, is 
 the bed made in German?, the bed is of a fine 
 bright Colour, neareft refembling Gold, try it 
 as the Silver Daft ; as for the courfe fort, 
 though ir will work pretty well with Gold Size, 
 yet it will not do fo with Gum water. Green 
 
Arfi Mailer- Pice?. ; ; 
 
 Green Gold, a corrupt Metal Co called^ is 
 very good in this Work, for cafting a fading 
 Green Colour. 
 
 Dirty Gold is a corrupt Metal, calling a 
 dark, dull, though SuVerim Colour, bearing 
 pretty wellarefembl'nce to dirty droflyGold. 
 
 Coppers are three forts, Natural, Adulterate 
 and Artificial; as for the Natural, being clean- 
 fed, it may be ground without any mixture. 
 
 The Adulterate is mod fit for a Ground, and 
 ferves commonly to lay other Mecals on, as in 
 Retching or heightening Gold <tt Silver oh ; 
 but the Artificial is of a higher and brighter 
 Colout than either: There are alio ufed in this 
 Art, thofe called Speckles of C pper , Gold, 
 and Silver, and divers other Colours differing 
 in finenefs, which may be worked as the Ar- 
 tift fancies, eirher on the oucfides of Boxes or 
 Drawers, or on Mouldings, and may be pur- 
 chafed ready done. 
 
 Of Colour* 'proper \n Jap.mivr, ■ 
 
 Some of thefe are called 'tran (parent, oh 
 which Guld and Silver are to be laid, or fbme 
 light Colour- fo thar by this means they appear' 
 in.tbtir proper Colours, lively and beautiful. 
 
 Of thefe, for a Green are Diftilled Ve'rdi- 
 grife, for a Red, fine Lake, for a Blue, Smalt; 
 have to Grind thefe on*' 8 Porphyry or Marble- 
 Stone. Grind with a Muller what quantity 
 you pfeaffc, with Smalt or Verdigiile, with 
 Nut Oil, as mucti al"wHf moiften the O'lcur*, - 
 and gtirrd -them till 'they are as f;;ie is B'utrej^ 
 B «f 
 
34 . Ar? i Masicr-Vkce. 
 
 put then the Coloursinto Shells, and mix them 
 with Oil of Turpentine till they become chin 
 for ufe; lay them on Silver, Gold, or any other 
 light Colour, and they will then become tran- 
 fparent, altering their lightnefs or darknefs, ac- 
 cording to that of the Moral or Colours that are 
 placed under them ; this for a curious Red, may 
 be done with Lake, but then ufe drying Oil to 
 grind them with. 
 
 If you defign Figures on the black of your 
 Table or Boxes, as Trees Birds, or Flowers, 
 thofe may be done for White, with White 
 Lead ; for Blue, Smalt, mixing it with Gum 
 Arabick Watw, and mingle thsmas you pleafe, 
 to make them lighter or deeper ; Flake white is 
 a very pure White, bat the other will do for 
 ordinary Work, and you mult ufe either of 
 thefe with Smalt, or all other Colours that have 
 not a Body-of their own; you may for a Pur« 
 pie ufe Ruflit, fine Lake, and Sea green, and 
 it may be done with other forts of Reds and 
 Greens, and except tranfparent Colours, all mull 
 bs laid with Gum water. 
 
 Seed Lac VaYnijli how to make it. 
 
 Your Ground Work is^good rectified Spines, 
 of which you may take a Gallon, put it into as 
 wide a necked Boul« as you can get, that the 
 Gums may the better come out, then of the 
 beft Seed Lac add a pound and a half, let it 
 Macerate twenty four hours* or till the Gum» 
 are well difTolved, with often fhaking, tokeep 
 them from clogging together $ then with Flan- 
 net 
 
Art's ftfajler -Piece. $$ 
 
 nel Strainers drain it into a Tin Tunnel, pla* 
 ced in the Mouth of the empty Bottle, the 
 Strainer may be made as before directed, and 
 fqueeze the Drofs in the Bag; and throw it a* 
 way as of no ufe ; then let the Varnifh fee* 
 tie, and pour it off into other Bottles, till it 
 riles thick, and no longer, then dram the thick 
 part, and fettle that again, and keep the fine 
 Varnifh for your ufe, and this does as well, 
 without the danger of attempting to boil if, 
 which endangers firing the Houfe, and the Par- 
 ty's Life. 
 
 Shell Lac-Varmty, how to make it. 
 
 This in curious glofly pieces of Worlfc is not 
 of value, but in VarniuYd ; Woods it fucceeds ; 
 to make it,put to a Gallon of Spirit a pound and 
 a half of the bed Shell Lac/ order it as the 
 former, and though it has no Sediment, it it 
 proper however it fhould be {trained, to take 
 away the (tick? or draws that may be in the 
 Gum, nor will it ever be fine and clear as the 
 former, but turns in a few days to cloud inefs 
 yetic is fit for cburfe Work, and much ttfed*. 5 
 
 White Varnifh how to make it. 
 
 Take an ounce of White Gum Maftick, anal 
 on ounce of White Gum Sandarach, three 
 ounces of the belt and cleared Venice Turpen- 
 tine, Gum Elemi half an ounce, Gam dtpal 
 an ounce and a hall", Gum Benjamin or Bsr.zoin 
 of the ilewcft; hajf an ounce, and half an 
 
 ounce, 
 
56 Art's Mafttr-Piece. 
 
 ounce of White Rofln, and the Gums being 
 feparated in their quantities provided, put the 
 Rofin and Capal in a Glafs Vial, wirh half a 
 pint of Spirits, that they may be diflblved ; 
 and to the fame end, in a Glafs Bottle of three 
 quarts of Spirits, put th^ Venice- Turpentine, 
 Anirr^ and Benj ? mine, and. in another Bottle 
 the Gum Maffick and Sandaradc, in a pint and 
 a half of Spirits, .then diflblve the Gum Elemi 
 in a quarter of a pint of Spiriw, powder very 
 finely the Anirrae and Benjamin, the better to 
 diflblve in the Spirit, and then pour, them off 
 into one: large Bottle, let them ftand to fine as 
 the .former, and then fhain -themthrough a Li» 
 nen cloth gently, not hardly prefling the Sedi- 
 ment, Ml you carry the grittinefs of the Gums 
 along with, you, to injure the Varnifh. 
 
 General Rifles for Varmfifkig. 
 
 This is a point nicely to be obferved, or 
 )our labour and cofr may be in vain. 
 
 i. If -you^chufe Wood that requires to be 
 Varniftred, let it be exempted from knots, ve- 
 ry ck)f« grained, fmooth, clean, well ruftied, 
 and. free from greafinefs. 
 
 2. As for your Colours and Blacks, lay them 
 even, and exqujfltely fmooth, fweep all rough- 
 nefs ofFwith your rufb> 
 
 5. Keep your Work eve* warm,, but not 
 hot to raile bliftersor crack ir* which .nothing 
 but fcraping off all- the Varnifntaa amend.. 
 
 4. After every diftinft wafh,- Ul ^our work 
 bfr thoroughly dry, for negle&in thw point in- 
 troduces the fault of roughneft. y ., After. 
 
Art's Adaffcr-Thce. 37 
 
 5. After it is Varnifhed, let it lie by and reft 
 as long as your conveniency will admit, and ic 
 will be the better. 
 
 6*. Ever take care to begin your Varnifli 
 ftrokes in th« middle of the Table, or what 
 you do it on, and not from one end to the 0- 
 ther, and your Brufh being planted in the 
 middle, ftrike it to one end, then take it off, 
 and fix it to the place you began at, fo draw, 
 or extend it to the other end, and fo continue 
 it till the whole plain be Varnifhed over, and 
 beware you overlap not? the Edges, which is, 
 when the Varnifli hangs in fplafbes or drops on 
 them; therefore to prevent it, draw ycuc 
 Brufh gently once or twice againft your Gal- 
 ly-pot fide. 
 
 7, When you have proceeded fo far as to 
 come to polifh, let your Tripoly be very fine, 
 and the finer the Woik, let it be ftill the finer, 
 and ufe fine Rags, keeping your hand mode- 
 rately hard upon it , and brighten or polifh one 
 place as much as you intend, e'er you leave ic 
 ami pafs to another, *gnd always have regard, 
 that you polifh your Work as fmooth as you 
 intend at one time, bat if your Conveniency 
 will admit, let it reft two or three day* before 
 you give the finifhing ftrokes after you have 
 polifhed it, but enmc not too near the Wood 
 to make it thin and hungry, for then it will re- 
 quire another Varnifh, or remain to .your dif. 
 credit. 
 
 8. Take a fufficjent quantity of Tripoly at 
 the»firft polifhtng, till it begins to ceme fmooth, 
 
 and 
 
% 8 Art's Mafter-Piece. 
 
 and Co leflen by degreet, and carefully obfcm 
 there be no fcratchesor grating in it 
 
 9. When you have a mind to clear up the 
 Work, wafh off the Tripoly with a Spunge, 
 and foak up the wet with a fair Linen Cloth, 
 and with Lamp black mixed with Oil, gently 
 fmeer the whole face of it, let no corner nor 
 moulding of it efcape, that the whole Piece 
 may be freed, then with other Linen, and a 
 hard hand cleanfe it of that, and thefe things 
 done there will be an admirable glofs. 
 
 For whire work, let your polifhing be gen- 
 tle and eafie, do it nimbly, and clear it with 
 Oil and fine Flour , and in exa&ly obferving 
 thefe Rules you will prove an Artiff. 
 
 Of Black Varmfynng, or "Japan. 
 
 Provide for this imitation of Japan, a clofe 
 grained Wood , well wrought off, Rufh ic 
 fmooth and keep it warm by a Fire, but never 
 fo near as to burn, fcorch or blifter your Work, 
 then add to Seed-La- Varnifli, as much Lamp- 
 black as will at the firft ft okes co'our the Wood j . 
 doit three times, permitting it to dry well be- 
 tween every doing, and alfo Rufh it well, then 
 with a quarter of a pint of the thickeft Seed- 
 Lac, mixed with an ounce of Venice Turpen- 
 tine, put in more Lamp-black, fo much as may 
 Well colour it. and with this wafh it fix times, 
 letting it ftand twelve hours between the three 
 firft, and the three laft warnings ; then with 
 the fined Seed -Lac juft tin&ured with the 
 Black, do ic over, twelve, times, letting ic dry 
 
 betw^eo 
 
Arfi Adajter-Viece. 39 
 
 between every time doing, after which let it 
 remain for five or fix days before you polifh 
 
 it. 
 
 At the end of that time, take Water and 
 Tripoly and Polifh it, having firft dipped your 
 Cloth in Water, and rub it till it gain* a very 
 fine fmoothnefs and glofs, but do not rub fo as 
 may any ways wear off the Varnifh, which can- 
 not be eafily 'repaired i then ufe a Rag wetted 
 without Tripoly, and clear it up with Oil and 
 Lamp black, yet Polifh it not all at once, but 
 let it have fome days refpite between the firft 
 and lafl Polifhing, and at leaft three or four 
 days. 
 
 White Farnijbing or Japan. 
 
 This muft be curioufly done without any 
 foiling, and therefore you muft be cautious of 
 letting any dirty thing come near, whilft you 
 art doing ir. 
 
 To begin this Work, fcrape as much Ifinglaft 
 as will make it of a reafonable tl icknefs, or 
 when dipping your Pencil into ir, it will with 
 a ftroke whiten the Body which has been patted 
 over with a Brufh, but let it be in neither of 
 the extreams, too thick or too thin, then mix 
 it with your Size , whiten your Work over 
 with ir, and when dry, repeat the fame, cove* 
 ringir from all manner of Duft before it is Var- 
 nifhed ; it muft be whited three times, and dri- 
 ed between every one of them, fmooth, and 
 lay it as clofe as you £an to the Wood with 
 yomRufoes » then mix White Flake with your 
 
 Size, 
 
4'0 ArPs Mafier-Picce. 
 
 Size, only fo that it may lie with a full and fW 
 body on the Piece, and whiten your Work 
 three feveral times, with this drying between 
 each, then make it with your Rufhes very 
 fmooth , but keep your diftance From the 
 Wood. 
 
 In the next place, take white Starch boiled 
 in fair Water till it come to be fomewhat thick, 
 and when it is lukewarm, warn over your 
 Work- with it ence or twice, drying between 
 wniles, and let it then fland twenty four hours, 
 then take the rlneft of the white Varnilh I have 
 dire&ed you to make^ wafh your Pencil in 
 Spirits, and wafh or anoint your Work fix or 
 feven times, and after thirty or forty hours,- do 
 the like again, and if done with a dexterdus 
 hand/ a better-glofs will be fet on it than if it " 
 had been Polifhed ; but if it mifs of that glofs, 
 it is requisite that you PolinYit ; and in order 
 thereto, you mud accommodate it with five or 
 fix wafhes of Varnifh' more than the former, 
 and it muft continue co fettle well about a Week 
 before you Poliflvit. 
 
 In Polifhing, your. Linen and Tripoly muft 
 be of the fine'ft, being neat and careful in all 
 this operation, your fund carried light and gen- 
 tle, having your cloch neither too dry nor too 
 wet, and clear it up with fine Flour and Oif. 
 
 Ifinglafs fii&e, koiv to wake it. 
 
 Break and divide an cunce of T/inglafs inrd 
 little pieces, put it into a glazed, clean, and 
 vMl covered Pipkin, and let ic for twelve hours 
 
Art's Mafter~Viect. 41 
 
 foaft m a pint and a half of fair Water, therr 
 place it over a gentle fire, till it boil well at lea- 
 Aire, and when the Water is confumed to a 
 pint, let it ft nJ to cool leifurely, and then it 
 will be a Gtlly, and may be ufed in the White 
 Varnifh, and o;her works, but make no more 
 at a time than you will ufe, for in two or 
 three- days it will prove naught. 
 
 Rid J a pun,, to make if. 
 
 The Reds are nroperly three, viz. the Com- 
 mon Red, the Deep daik Red, and the Light 
 pale Red. 
 
 In the firft Vermillion is proper, mixed with 
 the rhi.kcit of Seed Lac, warm the work and 
 mix your Vermillion wirh the Varnifh in a Me- 
 dium, carry it over it four times, permitting 
 it to dry as the former ; and if your Reds be in 
 a good body and full, Rufhit fmooth, then with 
 the ordinary Seed Lac Varnifh wafh eight times, 
 and after twelve hours Rufh it again j and then 
 for a curious outward covering, give it eight or 
 ten wafhes wirh Seed Lac- Varnifh, and after 
 five days Polifh it, aad dear- it with Lamp, 
 black and Oil. 
 
 Of the Dark Red. 
 
 The Common Red laid as before directed, 
 deepen it with Dragon's Blood mixed with 
 your Varnifh , and when, it has pretty good 
 colour, go over it with Lac- Varnifh, which 
 Will much deepen and ftrengthen the Colour, 
 
 an<J 
 
42 Art's Mafter-Ykcc. 
 
 tnd in all things elfe , as to Poliflung and Clear* 
 ing ; do as in the former Red. 
 
 Of the Tale- Rel 
 
 To do this, grind white Lead with aMuITer 
 on a Stone, and when it is finely done, mix it 
 with fo much Vermillion as will make it a Pale 
 Red,mix Varniftiwith them,and give the Work 
 four wafhts, and follow the prefcription of the 
 Common Red, confidering well, that the after- 
 Varniih will heighten the Colour. 
 
 An Olive coloured Japan. 
 
 Take Englifli Pink colour, grind it with 
 common Size, and when it is like Pap, mix 
 with it a proportion of Lamp-black, and White 
 Lead, and work it as in other Japanning. 
 
 Chejnut celoured Japan. 
 
 To do this, take Indian Red, or elfe Brown 
 Red Oaker, grind it well, and mix it with ordi- 
 nary Size, then grind a little White Lead extra- 
 ordinary well with the fmall Size, mix with it 
 Lamp- Black, and foboth with the Indian Red- 
 Oaker, ftir, and well incorporate them together,^, 
 if the Colour be too bright, darken it with 
 the Lamp Black, if too dark, lighten it with 
 White Lead, and fo bring the Colour to your 
 Mind ; confidering always that your Varnifh 
 will heighten it. 
 
 With 
 
' Art's Mafter-Piect. 43 
 
 With this wafli over your Work, let it dry, 
 and repeat it till your Colour lie full and fair, 
 Rufli it fmofth, but net clofe to the Wood, 
 unlefs you defign anew to begin your Work, 
 and give it a fecond Varnifh. 
 
 After it has flood three or four days, give it 
 a Luftre with Seed -Lac, and when dry fit it for 
 PolliOiing with white Lac- Varnifh, and clear it 
 with Oil and Lamp-Black. 
 
 Blue Japan. 
 
 To do this, grind White Lead very fine, add 
 Smalt as finely ground, mix them with Tfin- 
 ghfs Size, the White Lead grind with Gum- 
 water, let there be a proportion of White and 
 Blue, and mix them well to the thick nefs of 
 common Paint, go over your Work with it, 
 and when it is well dry, proceed fo three or 
 four tjmes, till the -Blue lies with a fair body, 
 Rufh it fmooth, and go over it again with ftron- 
 ger Blue, and when dry wafli it with the clear- 
 eft IfinglafsSize, having a new Pencil for that 
 purpofe, then when it is dry, warm it by the 
 fit e, and go over it with a Pencil dipped in 
 White Varnifh feven or eight times, and fo let 
 it continue for a day or two. then wafh it as 
 often as before, and fo continue many Operati- 
 ons at intermitted times j for a week at Jeaft- 
 muft pafs, before yo u can tivtll venture tojPo- 
 lifhit, and when it is Polifhed, Clear it with 
 Ciland Lamp Black. 
 
 Note, That inno\eife you mix your Colours 
 with Ifinghfs Colours too ftrong, left when 
 
 dried, 
 
44 'Arfs MaFltr'Viece, 
 
 dried, they be apt ro crack, fly, and fpoil the 
 Piece, but when you lay your Watb of clear 
 Ifinglafs, to keep your Varnifh from tarnifh- 
 ing, or foaking. mro your Colours, then it is 
 proper that it be of a full and ftrong bcd^. 
 
 And thus much may very well fufrlce the 
 Learner, to give him an infight into this excel- 
 lent Art, from whence I ftulF proceed to o- 
 ther things, ufeful and profitable; 
 
 Of Speckles, for the Aicrnlv.g 
 Japan d Work. 
 
 Mix fo m:ny Speckles as you have occafion 
 for, with ordinary Lac Gum Varnifli, fomuch, 
 as when they are put into a Gully pot, will fit 
 them for working with a convenient Pencil, 
 but not fo thick as Colours-, keep them fthring- 
 very well with aBrufli, and generally warmby 
 the fire : This continue till you perceive the 
 Speckles He thick and even to your mind, Co 
 beautifie them with three or four waflies of 
 Varnifli, mixed with Turpentine, and this, vn» 
 lefs you intend to Pollifh, will be fufficient, 
 but then you mud give it after all this 
 eight or ten walkings with the Prime Lac- Var- 
 nifli, drying between whiles, and then Polifli ; 
 and on this manner you may lay on all colou- 
 red Speckles ; but Silver requires Seed Lac- 
 Varnifli, and the beft White Varnifli e'er it 
 can be brought to a good Polifli, but if not to 
 bePoliflied, you may fpareyour Varnifli. 
 
Art's Masier-Vttct. 45 
 
 To lay on Speckles in Japan Work, &c 
 
 If you defign to Adorn your Work with 
 blowers, Rocks, or Garments, &c. Varnifh 
 the places intended with a fine Pencil, and 
 through any fmall Sieve fliake the Colours you 
 defign, whilft the Varni£h is wtt, and fweep 
 Up in Rock-Wotk all Speckles that ftraggle on 
 the edges, with a new dry Pencil lodge them on 
 the fides and top of the Rock, which flicking, 
 will reader the Work more beautiful, and give 
 it a Shadow or RtfleQion. 
 
 This muft be done with all diligence, and no 
 intermidion had till finifiied, till once coveted, 
 and being once dry, operate again, and fo one 
 upon another fucceftl vely, to fhape it to your 
 mind; and in fweeping the Speckles, intermix 
 not one portion of fcattered parts with the o- 
 ther, that are of a different colour, bu* every par- 
 cel in the proper ftation, to beautine the 
 better : At firfi when laid, it will look dull and 
 heavy, but the fecuring Varnifli in a little time 
 will add to it a pleafant, beautiful colour ; and 
 fo you may do Flowers, Trees, Garments, 
 and many pleafant things to Adorn your 
 Work. 
 
 Wood, bow to overlay with Cold 
 or Stiver. 
 
 To prepare this Work, you muft be Furni- 
 &ed with Parchment- Size, that is, the cuttings 
 of Parchment boiled in fair water to a gelly, 
 
 and 
 
46 Arts Mafter-ficcc. 
 
 and when drained and cooled, it will prove a 
 ftrong Size. 
 
 When you are to ufo ir, put as much as you 
 fhal! wane into an Earthen Pot, and make ic 
 hot, then as it is cooling, fcrape as much fine 
 Whiting into it as will colour it, mix them well 
 with a clean Brum , and with this mixture 
 white your Wood or Frame, ftriking or job- 
 bing your Brulb againft it, that it may the bet- 
 ter enter in the hollownefles of carved work, 
 then give it reft, that it may dry. 
 
 This done, melt the Size again, and put in 
 more Whiting to render it fome degrees thick- 
 er, and with this, do over the Frames feven or 
 eight times, or as you fee there is a necetflty, 
 and when it is dry, open with a Gouge no big- 
 ger than a Wheat-ftraw, the Veins in the Car- 
 ved Work, that the Whiting has flopped up, 
 then with a fine wet Rag and your Finger, 
 carefully ftnoothand water, plain it over,, and 
 Rufti it fmooth when dry, if neceflity require 
 ft; and in this Condition it will well receive 
 your Gold or Silver Spe ; but before I proceed, 
 I fliall teach you to make trfefe Sizes. 
 
 The bff GoU-Six,e at freftnt in ufe. 
 
 Take an equal quantity of the. beft French 
 and Englifh BblcArmoniack, grind tbefe fine 
 on a Marble (lone with fair water, then fcrape. 
 into it a little Candle greafe, incorporate and 
 grind all thefe well together, then mix a little 
 quantity of Parchment-Size, with a double pro- 
 portion of Water, and the baftnefr ii done. 
 
Art's Mafer-Viete. 47 
 
 The hefi Stiver Size in ufe. 
 
 Grind fineTobacco-pipe Clay very finall, mix 
 with it as much Lamp black, as will turn it of a 
 light Afh- colour, and to thcfe add bits of Can- 
 dle greafe, grind them very fine together, a 
 mixture of Size and Water, and try thefe on 
 the corner of the Frame ; if ic be rough in 
 burniihing, put more Oil or Greafe, and as 
 near as you can bring it to a due temper, that 
 it may work well. 
 
 To Size your Frames, or other Matters. 
 
 To do this, make the Size blood warm, and 
 wirh a fine Brum ftir it very well, till it is fome- 
 what thin, go over the Frames with it twice or 
 thrice, yet touch not the hollow parts of the 
 3eepeft Carvings* where the Gold cannot con- 
 veniently be laid, for the yellow colour nearly 
 refembling firft laid on, the fault will not foon 
 be discovered ; let it dry four or five hours, and 
 then try the Gold if it will Burnifh on it, if 
 not, alter the Size, and do it over again. 
 
 To lay on the Gold^ in order to Burn'tjliing. 
 
 Let your Frame or other Matter intended, 
 3e fet dna Haz'e, .place the Leaf Gold on a 
 Cufliion to be held in your Left-hand with tho 
 Pallat and Pencil. Youmuftfor this Work have 
 1 Swan's Quill Pencil , or a larger of Camels 
 flair, if thefi|Work require it, dip it in Water 
 
 and 
 
43 Art's Mafter-Tiece. 
 
 and wet no more of your Frame at a time than 
 will take up Three or Four Leaves, make your 
 beginning at the lower end, and fo proceed up- 
 wards, laying on whole Leaves or half ones, as 
 it -requires, then wet fuch another part of your 
 Work, and lay on the Go'd with your Pencil 
 or Cotton, gently prefling it very clofe; and 
 having Gilded the uprightlides, turn the Frame, 
 and proceed the fame way with the ends, then 
 furvey the Spots and Places that are omitted, 
 and cut fmall parts of Gold to cover them, 
 when wetted with a fmaller Pencil than before, 
 when it is fo finifhed let it ftand till the next 
 day that time you leave off. 
 
 To Burnifli the -Gold-work. 
 
 Take a Wolf or Dogs Tooth, if you cannot 
 get Aggets or Pebles formed into the fame 
 fbapes, and Burnilh fo much of the Work as 
 ymi defign, leaving the Ground of the Carving 
 untouched, and fome other parts as you fee beft 
 convenient, whieh in refpect of the Burn idling 
 being rough, the better fetsitoff.- That which 
 is omitted to be Burniflied, muft be Matted, or 
 fecured with Seed Lac-Varnifh or Lacker, if 
 you defign it a deeper colour, then muft your 
 Work be repofleft or fet off with Lacker, mix- 
 ed with Saffron and Dragons Blood, or the co- 
 lour called Ornator, and with a fine Pencil 
 dipped herein, touch the hollownefl=s of the 
 Carving, and the Veins of the Foldages or 
 Leaves; if you fancy it b not deep enough, 
 yon may by a repetition make it fo, and the 
 Work b done. Ta 
 
Arts MaffeY'Tiece. 49 
 
 Te lay on Silver Size. 
 
 Warm the Silver Size that is newly gtound 
 and mingled well with weak Size , as you 
 did the Gold Size, do it once or twice, and let 
 it dry, and try the Leaf Silver, if it will Bur- 
 niflb on it, it is prepared for the Work ; but if 
 it will not, make an Alteration in the Size, and 
 for the reft, lay on the Leaf-Silver, and do as 
 you did by the Gold, and it will anfwer. 
 
 Note, as farther Rules, and ever obferve them. 
 
 1. Let your Parchment Size be fomewhat 
 ftrong, keep it not long, leaft it fpoils. 
 
 2. Grind no more Silver or Gold Size than 
 juft you have prefent occasion for. 
 
 3. Ever keep your Work clean from Duft, 
 after it is Sized and Gilded, or elfe in the Bur* 
 nifhing it will be full of Scratches. 
 
 4. Do not Whiten or Burnifh Gold Size in 
 hard Frofty Weather, for then the Whiting will 
 be apt to peel off, and the Gold flaw. 
 
 The Art of Gilding Metals. 
 
 To Prepare the Gold. 
 
 Take Ducker, or Leaf-Gold, what quantity 
 you defire, obferve to beat the Ducket very- 
 thin, and put this Gold with as much Quick- 
 filver as will juft cover it into a Gaily- Pot, where 
 let them continue half an hour, where imme- 
 diately after the mixture ftir them with a ftick, 
 then ftrain them through a piece of Leather, 
 C fqucezing 
 
jo ArSs Master-? wee. 
 
 fqneezing with your hand till you have forced 
 out as much Quick filver as you can induftriou- 
 fly do, fo that what remains in the Leather, 
 looks more like Silver than Gold., yet this only 
 mutt be employed in Gilding after the fol« 
 lowing manner. 
 
 To Gild -with GtU^ Silver, Copper, Brafs y 
 Tntices Metal, &C. 
 
 Btufh. firft your Metal well, with a Wire 
 Brufh, wet it with Water or Beer, and brufh 
 on till the dirtinefs or filth be quite removed, 
 that the Gold may more cJofely join it, pre- 
 pate then your Quick -filver, by mixing it with 
 a little Aquafortis in a Vial, three or four drops 
 of the Aquafortis to an ounce of the Quick fil- 
 ver, quicken your Work with it, viz. rub it 
 over with a Rag or your Finger, till it appears 
 all Silvered, or touched. This done, 
 
 Take your prepared Gold, and withafmall 
 Knife, or Iron Tool proper to the purpofe, 
 fpread, or overlay the whole piece, omitting 
 no parr, give it two or three little heats, before 
 you give it a thorough hear, fo that with a Hair 
 Brum like a Comb Btufh, }ou may dab and 
 fpread your Gold, thefe little heats making the 
 Quick filver more ready to comply ; then give 
 it the thorcugh-hear, which will compel the 
 Mercury or Quick filver to evaporate or fly 
 away, then take it from the Fire, and with a 
 fcrub' Brufh, untouched with Quick filver, 
 cleanfe it as at firft ; if you perceive any un- 
 touched fpot of Qaick- filver, the Gold muft 
 be laid on it again, when it is cleaned with a 
 
 fcratch 
 
Arfs Masler-Vuct. St 
 
 (cratch Brufli, and after this manner you may 
 heighten its colour if you fee it neceiTaiy, 
 
 T& heighten the Colour of Gold. 
 
 Take an equal quantity of Salt Argal and 
 Brimftone, mix them with as much fair Water 
 as will cover the gilded Metal when put into it, 
 boil them well, and tying 5 cur Gilded Metalin 
 a firing, plunge it in for a little fpace, often 
 plunging, and looking as often on it as you 
 draw it out, and when the colour is heightened 
 to your expectation, dip it in cold water, and 
 the work is done ; you may in the foregoing 
 manner double or treble Gild, till the Gold en- 
 liches it to a lafting thicknefs and colour. 
 
 To Counterfeit Tortctfefcell. 
 
 To do this well, let the Wood you intend to 
 work on, be very clofe grained, clean and 
 fmooth wrought off, as Pear tree, or the like; 
 but if rough grained, you mufr Prime it with 
 Whiting, as you are taught in Black Japaning, 
 for coarfe grained Woods, Rufh it fmooth and 
 go over it with Seed Lac-Varnifh, the breadth 
 of a Silver Leaf, which take up with Cotton, 
 and lay on it moift, as clofe as may be; then 
 walh again, and place on another Leaf of Sil- 
 v«r,and fo continue till the Wood is over-fpread 
 with Silver, and when dry, fweep off all the 
 loofe Silver with a H«ir Brum, then finely grind 
 Collins Earth, and mix it with Gum Water or 
 Common Size, and with this, having added 
 more Size or Gum Water than it was ground 
 C 2 wit ha«, 
 
-52 \ ^rt's Mafier-Tiece. 
 
 withal, Spot or Cloud the Ground-Work, ha- 
 ving a fine, true, natural Shell by you to imi- 
 tate, and when this is done, you will perceive 
 feveral Reds, lighter and darker, appear on the 
 edges of the Black, and many times lie in 
 flreaks on the tranfparent part of the Shell ; 
 60 imitate this finely, grind Sanguis Draconis 
 with Gum Water, and with a fine Pencil draw 
 thofe warm Red , flufliing it in about the dark 
 places more thick, but fainter, thinner, and lef- 
 fer of colour towards the lighter parts, fo 
 fweetening it, that it may in a manner lofe the 
 Red, being funk in, in the Silver, or more 
 tranfparent parts. 
 
 When it is done and dried, give at leaft fix 
 wafhes of S:ed Lack-Varnifh, and when it has 
 continued twenty four hours, Rufh it gently, 
 and when it is fmooth, and fit for the fecond 
 Operation, grind Gambogium very finely in an 
 equal fmall quantity, put thefe into as much 
 Seed Lac-Varnifh, as will ferve to wafli it ano- 
 ther fix times, then let it frand twelve hours, 
 and give it the third Varnifhing, and with the 
 Jaft mixture wafh it fo often, that the Silver is 
 changed to a Golden colour, and the work is 
 done. 
 
 To Dye Wood a curious Red. 
 
 The Wood that takes this clour mu ft be ve- 
 ry white, and to begin it put a handful of AI- 
 lom in a moderate Kettle of Water, and caft, 
 your wood into it, and when well foaked, t2ke 
 it out, and put in two handfuls of Rafped 
 Brafil-wood, and when that has boiled well, 
 put the Wood in again for a quarter of an 
 hours boiling, and it will take the colour. 
 
 To 
 
r/m ►» . ; • ■ f ■ • >■ * (l *nM '< i '■<■ >-■ • >.\ ' 
 S . / rv ,/ Af*<.i: ft ■+■'»■ t*~- ^'u;^-.t. 
 
 7o S?«/« a curious Yellow. 
 
 In this cafe, tike the knotty Afh or Bur, that 
 is very white, knotty and curled, Smooth and 
 Rufhit very well, and when it is well warmed, 
 wa!h it over with a Brum dipped in Aquaforti*, 
 then hold it to the fire till ir defifts to fmoke, 
 Rufh it again when dry, then Pnlifh ir, and Var- 
 nifh it with Seel- Lac, and it will be of a curious 
 colour, not inferiour to any Outlandifh Yel'ow 
 wood, and if you put filings or bits of Metal, 
 as Copper, Brafs, &c. each Metal will produce a 
 different tinQure. 
 
 To Stain or Dye VSood Black. 
 
 Boil Logwood in Water or Vinegar, and two 
 or three times Brufh or Stain your Wood With 
 ft when very hot, then take Nut- Galls and Cop* 
 peras, bruife them well, and boil them in Wa- 
 ter, and with it Warn or Stain your Wood fo 
 often, till it be a perfect Black, or rather fleep 
 it in the hot Liquor if you can pat it in, and 
 the Dye will penetrate the better. 
 
 To Dye or Stain Wood for Inlaying of 
 Flowers or other things in Cabinets. 
 
 Get moift new Horfe Dung, and fqueeze out 
 the moifrure through a Cloth, put it into fe* 
 veral fmall VefTels fit for youi purpofe, and 
 diflblve Gum Arabick, and Roach Allom, each 
 the quantity of a Walnut, and with thefe mix 
 Reds, Greens, Blues, or any Colour that is 
 futable to the woik, ftir them often three or 
 four days, then take your Wood, particular- 
 ly Pear tree for White, cut into the thicknefs 
 °f half crown*, or fo much as will fuffke any 
 C 3, Inlayed 
 
f4 Ard' Mafier-Viece. 
 
 Jnlayed wotk, and in a fquare or length, ac- 
 cording to your delire, boil up the Liquors or 
 Colours ve r y hot, and put in the Wood till the 
 Colour has well taken ; fome indeed you may 
 fake out fooner, that the Colour being left 
 ftrong, may the better agree with your party- 
 coloured Flowers, Shading, and the like. 
 
 To Dye cr Stain, Ivory, Bene, cr 
 Horn Rerl 
 
 S^ak fine Lime about twelve hours in fatr 
 Rain Water, then pour off the Water well 
 from the fettling through a Linen Cloth, and 
 to each Pint put half an ounce of Rafped Bra- 
 fil wood, and having boiled your Materials in 
 Alom. Water, boil it in this, and it will give a 
 curious tinfture. 
 
 To Stain Horn, Bone, JVood or Ivo- 
 ry Green, 
 
 rt-epare your Materials, by firft boiling in 
 Alom water , then grind the common thick 
 Verdigreafe. or SpJnifh Green , a moderaae 
 quantity, add in a ha!f as much Sal-Armoniack, 
 and put them into rhe Iharpeft Wine Vinegar, 
 «s alfo the Materials you intend to Stain, and 
 keep them there hot till they have taken a good 
 tincture. 
 
 To Stain or Dye Horn, Box, or Ivory a 
 curious Black. 
 
 To do this, pat fmall pieces of Brafil Wood 
 into Aquafortis arid fo continue them, till 
 they appear green, then walh well your Mate- 
 rials in them, and boil Logwood in Water 
 into which put them whilftthey are warm, and 
 
 Fin 
 
Art's Mtiftcr-Vkcr. f-% 
 
 in a Ftrle time the Ivory, &c will be of a cu- 
 rious Black, fo that being Poliflied it will look 
 like Ebony or Japaty and if you would have 
 any pirt fat Flowers, or the like remain white, 
 draw rhem before ftainiog with Turpentine Vat- 
 nifb,*nd the black wi'l not touchthem.and after- 
 ward you may hetch thexi, and clear up with 
 Oil and La.Tip black. 
 
 To (lain Skins Green. 
 Bruife a good Quantity of the Leaves of 
 Niphtlhade very well, diflblve in the Juice well 
 firained out about two ounces of Alom, then 
 put in half an ounce of Verdigrife, fuffer them 
 to fUnd over a very gentle fire tw.mty four 
 hours, then warm, dip in a Brum, and ffrike 
 over your Skins, let it dry, and repeat it til! ic 
 has take a pleafant Green. 
 
 An approved way to colour White Leather* 
 Thefe Skins muff be hung in Lime or Chalk 
 Water, that the Wcol or Hair may be entirely 
 fl ripped off, and they become fupple, ftrecch 
 them fmoorh on Tenters, brum them over with 
 Alom-water very W3rm, and fo tin&ure them 
 with the Colours you delign, futable to your 
 purpofe. 
 
 To put a curie us h'ach'an Leather, 
 Take two pound of the inward Bark of an 
 Old Elder, the like quantity of the Ruff or h i- 
 lings of Iron, put rhefe into two Gallons of 
 Rain Water, and clofe them tight up in a Vef- 
 fel, and when they have flood about fix weeks, 
 put in a pound of Nhr>galls well b uifed, a 
 quarter of a p >und of Copp?*as, let them fiai- 
 C $ per 
 
$6 A)?s Mafier-Viece. 
 
 per a confiderable time over a fire, and after 
 twenty four hours landing, and often ftirring, 
 pour out the Liquid part, and go over your 
 Leather with it warm, and it produces a curious 
 German Black. 
 
 To colour Leather a Bright Red. 
 
 Dip your Leather firft in Alom-Water, and 
 rub it well therein, then take ftale Urin, boil it 
 till it is half confuted, fcum it well, and put 
 to it an ounce of the beft Lake, Rafpcd Brazil 
 Wood two ounces, and an ounce of Alom, 
 add to thefe half an ounce of Sal Armoniack, 
 Air them well over a moderate fire two hours, 
 pour off the Liquid part, and brufh over your 
 Skins with it, till it takes a good tincture, re- 
 membring ev«r to let the Skins in all Colours 
 dry well, between each going over with your 
 "brufh, and your expectation will be anfwered 
 to a very confiderable advantage. 
 
 A curious French TellbW for Skins, 
 
 Take Wood Allies and Chalk, of each a like 
 quantity, and when you have made a good Ley 
 with Rain- Water, ftrain out the fineft part, and 
 fet it over the fire, then put in a furHcient 
 quantity of Turmerick well bruiff d or beaten 
 to Powder, and as much Saffron as may give a 
 lively TintWe, let it (land over a moderate 
 fire, but not boil, till it becomes pretty thick, 
 and being warm colour the Skins with it. 
 
'ArPs Mafier-Viece. 57 
 
 For a deep Blue y or Purple. 
 
 Strain out the Juice of Elder- Berries, put to 
 two quarts, an ounce of Alom, half an ounce 
 of Smalt or Indico, fet thefe over a gentle fire, 
 and when warm, brufh your Leather over with 
 this Compofition. 
 
 For a Crimjon Vdvet. 
 
 Diflblve Cake-Soap in fair Water and Bole 
 
 Armoniaclc, each three ounces, place them over 
 a gentle fire till the Liquor grows clammy, then 
 put in a little handful of Grains of Cochineal, 
 two ounces of Red Lead, an ounce of Lake, 
 and a quarter of an ounce of Vermillion, a 
 little piece of Indico, mix thefe well over a 
 gentle fire, till they are the thicknefs of the 
 glare of an Egg, then go over the Skins with a 
 fofc Brum dipped into it, till the Colour arifes 
 to your mind. 
 
 7o Imitate the Turkej-Blue. 
 
 Take two ounces of Smale, a quarter of a 
 pint of Red Wine, half a pint of Vinegar, an 
 ounce of White Starch, incorporate thefe over 
 a gentle fire, till they come to a moderate 
 thi:knefs, then foak the Skins with Alom Wa- 
 ter; add to the Compofition a pint of Water, 
 wherein Gum Arabick has been dilTolved, and 
 ftir it well, go over the Skins three times, dry- 
 ing them between whiles, and when well dry- 
 ed, Polifli them over to render them glofly. 
 
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$8 Arts Mafterpeeu 
 
 For a Light Green. 
 
 Take the Juice of the Herb called Horfs- 
 Nil, add to it a little Alom, Verdigteafe and 
 Copperas. 
 
 To Cover or Drefs Skins with Gold or Silver. 
 
 Grind Brown red with a Muller, on a Marbl fr 
 Stone, add to liquidate it a little Water wherein 
 Chalk has been diflblved, and lightly go over 
 the Skins till they look whitiQi, and- before 
 they are dry lay on the Leaf Gold or S Iver^ a 
 little lapped over one another, that no fpace be 
 found wanting, and when they flick well to 
 the Leather, and are dry, Polifh them over with 
 ftnooth Ivory, or a Horfe's Tooth, and it will 
 give a very glorious LuCtre ; the Silver you 
 may Lacker over with Lacker Varnifh, and 
 change it into a Golden Colour. 
 
 Or another way, take Glare of Egg«, or 
 Gum Water, brum the Skins over with it, and 
 lay on your Leaf Gold or Silver, doing as 
 before. 
 
 Jo wake Skins look Shining^ without Sil- 
 ver or Gold. 
 
 Take Gum- Water, the Glare of Eggs, and 
 the Powder of Antimony, grind and mix them 
 well together, and the Skins being dry, layit 
 an them with a Brufc three or four times, let- 
 ting them dry every time between-; then burnifh 
 ibea* over, and they will have a curious gloft 
 
 like 
 
Art's Ma$er-?iece. 59 
 
 like Srvcr, which tinQured with Lacker Var- 
 Bifh will produce a Fading Gold Colour. 
 
 To Dye Br files a Red Colour. 
 
 Take half an ounce of Alom, a quarter of 
 an ounce of Vermillion, and an ounce of Raf- 
 ped Diafil-Wood, put thefe inr© a pint of Vine- 
 gar, and boil them moderately thick, and dip 
 in the Briftks when it is very hot, and conti- 
 nuing there a time, they will be a fine Red ; 
 you may make larger quantities of the Liquor, 
 with ingredients proportionable, and thus Dye 
 Feathers. 
 
 Feather £ or Brinks Green. 
 
 Take Verditer and Verdigreafe , each ?n 
 ounce, put them into a pint of Water, foak the 
 Feathers or Brifties in ho: Water, and then puc 
 them into this Liquor boiling-hot and let them 
 remain till they have taken,- a good colour, and 
 To according to the Complexion of your Dyes, 
 you may Colour them this way any Colour. 
 
 For Blue, let your Dyes be Indico and Bife. 
 
 For Black, Galls and Logwood, with a little 
 Copperas. 
 
 For Purple, Lake, and Indico. 
 
 For Carnation, Smalt and Verir.il lion. 
 
 For Yellow, Yellow Berries and Saffron, dif- 
 folving a little Tartar in yt ur Water. 
 
 For Orange, Turmerick and Red Lead, and 
 fb of any other Colours yon fancy* 
 
 Of 
 
6o At? i Mister -Fhce. 
 
 Of Dying Silks,. Studs, Cloths, 
 Thread ', and other things, of 
 divers curious Colours. 
 
 To Dye Silk a Sanguine Colour. 
 
 Take a pound of Green weed, and as much 
 Alom, bruife than, and pour on them fair 
 Water, add half a pound of Rafped Brafil, fee 
 them over a gentle Fire, well to mix them, 
 then put in the Silk, fuffcring it to feeth there- 
 in thm, and fo continue it, by ftrengthening 
 your Dye, and dipping till you perceive the 
 Colour has taken well ; after that rinfe it in 
 Leys, Wood-Ames, or Oak-Bark, and fo clear 
 it with fair Water, dry ir, and prefsic. 
 
 To Dye Silk a deep Carnation. 
 
 Take Whitegall and Alom, tfie Herb called 
 Foli Well dried, to the quantity of a pound, 
 two ounce's of Spanifli red ; four of Indian 
 Lake, boil them in fair Water over a gentle fire, 
 and when they come to a height of tin&ure, 
 dip your Silks into them, and let them have 
 good dippings three or four times, and the Co- 
 lour will take very well. 
 
 To Dye Silk Quoins Red 
 
 Let thefe be fieeped well in Alom- Water, 
 then give.- them a gentle hear, adding in the 
 
 heating 
 
Art's Majler -Viece. 61 
 
 heating Bran-Water, a pound and a half of 
 Green weed, fo heat it up, and put the Silk in- 
 to it, but let it not feeth, then rinfe it in Leys of 
 Wood- Afh.es, after that in Water, then pot in 
 your Logwood Rafped or in Powder, and fo 
 heat it up a fecond time, and fo in thrice well 
 dipping the bufmefs will be accomplifhed. 
 
 To Dye a curious Yellow. 
 
 Take Wodd, the Stalks, Seeds and Leaves, 
 and lay them to foak in Wood-A(hes Leys three* 
 hours, then feeth it till it is fufficiently fodden, 
 and put it into a mixture of hot Water and U- 
 rine fo heat it up, and ftrain the Liquid pare 
 through a Sieve or Strainer, adding Verdi- 
 greafe , and fo boil it up with the Ley already 
 fod, ftirrjng and well mixing the Liquor about 
 three hours, ani when it is very hot, dip three 
 times. 
 
 To Dye Silk a Rofe-Red. 
 
 Take to every four yards and a half you in- 
 tend to Dye, a pound and a half of Nutgalls, 
 boil them in fair Water unbruifed two hours, 
 ftiifc the Water, then put in the Silk or Linen, 
 letting it foak four hours, then wring it dry, 
 and heat it in fair Water, wherein Alom has 
 been diflblved, then put in half a pound of 
 Brafil Powder, and a pound of Green- weed, 
 and fo by dipping in gentle heats, the Colour 
 will heighten. 
 
 4 
 
&1 Art's Mafier-'Picce. 
 
 A good Black TVater i for Silk or Cloth. 
 
 Take an ounce of Lamp-black, half a pound 
 oFNutgalls, bruife the latter, and pur them in- 
 to a Pottle of Wafer, with a handful of the 
 Filings, or Ruft of Iron, heat them up, adjing 
 a quarter of a pound of Copperas, feerh it to 
 a third patt Confumption, then add half a pint 
 of Gum water, and it will nor on'y be for pre- 
 fent ufe, but keep long and be* a very good 
 Black. ^^ 
 
 To Dye Turple. 
 
 In this cafe if you dye Silk, you muft take 
 to each pound of it an ounce of Al'om, and a 
 gallon of Water, diflblving rhe Allom therein 
 over a gentle fire, then put in the Silk, and tec 
 it continue there about fcur hours, then take 
 Lake and Indico, each a quarter of a pound', a 
 quart of Urine, then adding a little handful of 
 Cochinse], heat them up into a Dye, and dip- 
 your Silks or fine Stuffs into it as ufual. 
 
 To Dje a very fair Blue, 
 
 Take any Silk, Stuff, or Cloth white, and 
 fbak it in Water, that done, wring out the Wa- 
 ter very well, and add two Pound of Woold, 
 a pound of Indico, and three ounces of A lorn, 
 give a g«ntle heat in fair Water, and fodip till 
 you peicer/e the Colour t?.ke well. 
 
 Carnation* 
 
Art's Mafter-Tkcs &i 
 
 Carnation. 
 
 To tna'-e this a curious right Colour, tats 
 dried Purper, foak it in Mans Urine for a 
 Night, then take what you have to Dye, and 
 foak in Alora Water twice, feeth the Purper 
 in fair Water, and then fet another VciTA to 
 receive the Liquor, and dip therein. 
 
 For a Tleafant light Red. 
 
 Boil two gallons of Wheat, and an ounce of 
 Alom in four gallons of Water, Grain it thro* 
 a fine Sieve, diflblve more Alom, half a pound, 
 and as much of white Tartar ; add three pound 
 of Madder, to perfeS the Colour, and put in 
 your Stuff) Cloth, &c. at a moderate heat. 
 
 BUck for Vdvet, &c 
 
 Take half a pound of Copperas, a gallon of 
 Smiths-water, two pound of Galls, burnt lvc« 
 ry, Oak Bark, and Shoee-makers Black, each an 
 ounce, well ground, two gallons of fair water, 
 mix them we'l, and fet them in the Sun, or 
 other warm place a Month, ofien (Kr it, and 
 at a moderate warmth dip your Velvet, or o« 
 ther Things defigned for deep blacks. 
 
 1o make Red Water for Silk or WoHen, 
 Violet, Green, Az,ure or Yellow. 
 
 Take two gallons of fair Water, four ounces 
 of Brafil, and being half confumed in heating 
 up, remove it from the fiae, put in an ounce of 
 
 Grains, 
 
64 'Arfi Maftsr- Piece. 
 
 Grains, a quarter of an ounce of Gum Ara- 
 bick, with a quarter of a pound of Allom well 
 bruifed, and having flood all Night, it may be 
 well ufed in the Morning. 
 
 To Dye Woollen^ Tarn, or Wool. 
 
 Take two pound of Wood, to every four 
 pound of Yarn, &c. and two gallons of Wa- 
 ter ; put more, two handfuls of Wood Ames, 
 and when it feeths, put in the Yarn or Wool* 
 and let it continue half an hour, or fomewbat 
 more, then wring it; and put it in again, and 
 let it feeth as long as before, and if it were a 
 brown Blue, it will be a dark Green, or of a 
 white Yellow colour. 
 
 To makz Bran-water. 
 
 This is very nectfTaty in Dying, and there, 
 fore you ought to know how to prepare it ; do 
 it with half a peck of Wheat- Brain, to two gal- 
 lons of fair Water, over a gentle fire, and half 
 a ponnd of biuifed A lorn ; fuffer it to ftand 
 about a Week, with often llirring before von 
 ufe it. 
 
 To make Grey Florrey. 
 
 Let the Florrey be foaked twenty four hours, 
 then wring it through a Clotlr, and take Alhes 
 of Vine Sprays, and with them make a Ley, and 
 upon a Table fpread the Florrey, about two 
 hoars, put the Ley into three VefTels, and fhift 
 the Florrey out of orra into another, arjd be- 
 fore 
 
Arfs Mafer-Pieci^ 6j 
 
 fore you dip, put Vinegar in, and the Florrey 
 will be well ordered, and your Colour good. 
 
 To Dye Linen ■with CrampcnaJe. 
 
 To three Ells of your Lintn, ufe a pound of 
 the Crampenade, and a gallon and a halt of 
 Water, and fo fo a greater quantify proporti- 
 onable ; let it ftand ever a fire till >t begins to 
 feeth, put in at that time two ounces of Gill», 
 and then your Linen, and when you take it out, 
 which muft be often, wring it, and put it into 
 Allom- water ; but if you would have the Co- 
 lour daiker, it is requifite to have a Ley of un 
 flacked Lime, or Chalk Stones. 
 
 To Dye a goal ^Rjd in Linen , Threap 
 or Cloth. 
 
 Soak a pound of Sam flew twenty four 
 hours in two gallons of Water, fuffcring it to 
 heat over a gentle fire, add two ounces of Ver- 
 million, Tialf a pound of Rafped Brafil, and an 
 ounce of Allom, diffolved in a pint of fair Wa- 
 ter, and dip, and order y<*ur materials as in 
 other Things. 
 
 Thus Reader, have I given you a good In- 
 fight into the Myftery of Dying Silks, Stuffs, 
 Cloths , and other Things relating thereto, 
 which may by pra&ice prove advantageous. 
 
 The 
 
66 Art*s Maficr Piece. 
 
 The Art of Perfuming. 
 
 To ntake EJJertce of H>pocras. 
 
 Take a ftrong Gta<s Bottle, and put half a pint 
 of Spirit of Wine into it, add an ounce of Cin 
 namon, half an ounce of Cloves, a grofs of 
 Ginger, and as much Coriander as you can hold 
 with your Fore Finger and Thumb well beaten, 
 three or four Grains of black Amber, or Am- 
 bergrife beaten in a Stone Mortar, flop the Bot- 
 tle, very faft, and fet it on Sand, expofing it to 
 the Sun for a Month : The Bottle in this Cafe 
 muft not be full, nor (land out in the Rain j 
 this is a curious and wholefome Perfume. 
 
 Ejfence of Amber. 
 
 Put a pint of Spirits of Wine into a ft ong 
 Glafs Bottle, and beat in a very fmall Stone 
 Mortar, a grofs, or the eighth part of an ounce 
 of black Amber, or Ambergrife, put it into 
 the Spirits, with half a grofs of the Bladder of 
 Musk very fraall, fo flop it clofe, and fet it foe 
 a Fortnight as the former, (hading it two or 
 three times a day, when the Sun fliines hot up- 
 on it, but fill not the Bottle full, left the Soi- 
 rirs break it ; and then let it ftand ftill another 
 Fortnight, and it is done. 
 
 Ropi-Solis, or ferfumed Liquor, 
 
 Put two pints of Water, and two pounds of 
 Sugar in a Copper Pan over a gentle fire, and 
 
 let 
 
ArOs Mjfter-Tiece* 6-r 
 
 let them boil to the Confumption of a fourth 
 part, then put in two Spoonfuls of Orange. 
 Flower Warer, then throw in the White and 
 Shell of an Egg, well beaten wi;h 3 Whisk, and 
 ftir the Egg well i k ) the Liqnor with it, take it 
 of whan it boils, and ftrain it through a bag 
 feveral times, and when you perceive it well 
 clarified, pour in of the bell Brandy, and then 
 EfTence of Hypncras or Amber, and you will 
 have excellent perfumed Solis. 
 
 Angd-Watcr. 
 
 Put into an Earthen Por a quart of Orange- 
 Flower Water, a quarter of a pound of Benja- 
 mine, two ounces of Seorax, a quarter of an 
 ounce of Cloves, half an ounce of Cinnamon, 
 two or three bits of Calamus, fee the Pot on a 
 gentle fire, to the Confumption of a fourth 
 part, add a Bladder of Musk, then let it cool, 
 ftrain it well from the Drofs, and put it up 
 for ufe. 
 
 Millcflcur , or the Water of feveral Flowers, 
 
 To do this, put in a ftrong Glafs Bottle, a 
 pint of Angel-water, then in a little Mortar 
 beat twelve Grains of Musk, then put feveral 
 Flowers of various fcents, more of the weak- 
 er than of the ftronger, that there may be a 
 temperature, and allay them with that Water, 
 and when well infufed, pour it off into a Bot- 
 tle, and keep k well doted for ufe. 
 
 Ortvge* 
 
68 Art's Maffer-Viccc. 
 
 Orange- Flower Water. 
 
 To make this well, infufe two pound of O 
 range- Flowers, in a quart of Water three or 
 four hours,and fodiftil them in a cold Still ; Thii 
 Water is good for cleanfmg Snuff, making An- 
 gel Warcr, or Perfuming WauY Balls, or Skins. 
 
 The Queen of Hungary V Water, 
 
 Put a quart of the beft Spirit of Wine into 
 a (trong Glafs-Bottle, and two large handfuls 
 of Rofemary Flowers, a handful of Tyme, and 
 half a handful of Sweet Marjorum, the leaves 
 only and as much of Sage, keep the Bottle 
 clofe flopped, and expofe it to the Sun a Month, 
 and then you may diflblve the bignefs of a 
 Bean of Orcanat, bnifing it with a little Spirit 
 of Wine, and put it into the Bottle ; then ex- 
 pofe it four or five days more to the Sun, and 
 and it will be of a fine red Colour, and a curi- 
 ous Scent, 
 
 Paftils or Perfumes, of divers kinds. 
 
 Taftih of Rofes made into Wax Candles. 
 
 Take a pound of the Dregs of Angel Water, 
 beat them when dried very fine, and fearce 
 them through a Hair Steve, thsn put to them 
 a handful of the Leavts of Rofes, ne*ly ga- 
 thered, diflolve Gum Adragant in Rofe Water, 
 and beat the whole long together, to well In. 
 corporate ic, thenrowl up pieces as big as your 
 
 Finger 
 
Arts Mafler-Tiece. (,y 
 
 Finger taperwife, and when they are dry they 
 will burn like a Candle, and give a very curi- 
 ous fcent. 
 
 Tcrfuwed PaHils for Beads or MedaL, 
 
 Diflblve Gum-Adragant and Arabick in Mil* 
 lefleur- Water, and put into it Marchal- pouder 
 as much as will ftifFen it into a Parte, rub the 
 Moulds you caft them in with Eflence of Flow- 
 ers, and the Beads or Medals will be of a curi- 
 ous Brown or Coffee colour. 
 
 Another. 
 
 Take of Frangipan and Cyprus Powders, 
 each a like quantity, put them in Gum, where- 
 in Millefleur Water is the greater part, and 
 make them into Paftils. 
 
 To make Liquid Snuff, excellent for the 
 Cure of the Hcad-ach, or againfi Afo- 
 tleclick Fits ; a rare Secret. 
 
 Take Diftilled Betony-water a pint, half a 
 pint of Rofe mary Flower-Water , infufe in 
 thefe four ounces of the bed Virginia-Tohzco, 
 finely fifrtd into powder; let them ftand warm 
 by the Fire, or in the Sun twenty four hours, 
 then fquezeout through a very fine clean Cloth 
 the liquid parr, Scent it with a little Amber- 
 grife, and a very fmall quantity of Musk, drop 
 into it three or four drops of Chymical Oil of 
 Nutmeg, or Cinnamon, (hake it well when the 
 Settlings are taken v ff } an d keep it in fmall, 
 
 clofe 
 
7© Ari*s Mafter-Tkee. 
 
 clofe Vials for ufe, fnuffing or fpirting up a ve- 
 ry fmall quantity at a time into your Noftrils; 
 the Scent of it without fnuffing up, remedies 
 an ordinary Head Ach, 
 
 Cofmeticks, or Curious Receipts 
 for Beautifying the Face, Hands, 
 or any Fart of the Body. 
 
 Benjamin-Water, an ixctllent Beaut iner. 
 
 Take a pint of good ftrong Brandy, a pint 
 of Spirit of Wine, half a pound of Beojamine, 
 and a quarter of a pound of Storax, an ounce 
 of Cinnamon, and half an ounce of Cloves, 
 and four Nutmegs ; beat the Spi:es and Benja- 
 mine, and putting them into the Liquids, ftop 
 them up clofe in a ftrong Glafs Bottle, and lee 
 it ftand upon Sand in the Sun, in the heat of 
 Summer a Month, and then pour it off, and 
 clarifie it. 
 
 This cleanfes the Skin of Morphew, Tann'd- 
 nefs or Sun«burning, and caufes a delicate Com- 
 plexion, as do's the Queen of Hungary %• Water, 
 which I have already taught you to make. 
 
 To prepare Spunges for the Face. 
 
 Having chofe the belt and fmootheft Spunge, 
 and cut off what is fuperfluous, foak if, chang- 
 ing the Water till it looks clear, then dry if, 
 and dip it in Orange Flower or Angel Water, 
 pour over it a little Effence of Amber, then 
 
 fqueeze 
 
Art's Maty er -Piece. j\ 
 
 fqueeze it but a little and Jet it dry, and it will 
 be for your purpofe, in Cleajifing and Beauti- 
 fying the Skin, far beyond the ufe of Linen. 
 
 To caufe a Fair^ Clear Complexion. 
 
 Diftil Fumitory, Rofemary Flowers, andSca- 
 bious, each two good handfuls in a Pottle of 
 White-wine ; and a quart of Dew, gathered off 
 the Grafs or Corn, with clean Napkins and 
 Handkerchiefs, and fo wrung out ; keep it clofe 
 flopped in Glafi Bottles, and wafh the Face and 
 Hands with it, as there is Occafion. 
 
 To caufe a Fre(J)- coloured Complexion. 
 
 Take Oil of Myrrh an ounce, three drops of 
 Oil of Sulphur, an ounce of the Oil of Sweet 
 Almonds, mingle them well, and anoint the 
 Face going to Bed, and the next Morning take 
 it off with Ben jamine- Water. 
 
 To make a Clear- Pale Ccmplexivii. 
 Diftil the BlofToms of Peafe, Beam, and Pea- 
 ches, each a good handful, in two quarts of 
 Whey, and wafh the Face with it. 
 
 A Pomatum to Refe-cft the Complexion, and 
 take eff Pwples and Rednejs. 
 Take half a pound of the Leaf of Hogs Fat 
 work it well in Fair-wat«r till it is very white' 
 then put it into a new earthen Pan, put in a 
 quarter of an ounce of Copperas, two Pippins 
 cue in pieces without paring, mix an ounce of 
 
 the 
 
yz Arfs MaHer-Tiece. 
 
 the Oil of Sweet Almonds, and (train It through 
 a Linen Cloth into clean Water, and make it 
 into a Pomatum, and with it anoint the Face. 
 
 To take away Freckles. 
 
 Take the Gaul of a Cock, an ounce of Rye- 
 Meal, a quarter of an ounce of the Juice of 
 Hemlock, an ounce of Oil of Turpentine, 
 make them into an Ointment, and anoint the 
 Freckles with it , and in a little time they will 
 difappear. 
 
 A Pomatum, to Plump the Lips and Cheeks. 
 
 Take an ounce of frefh Butter, and as much 
 Virgin's- Wax, fet them over a gentle Fire, and 
 throw in black Grapes, bruifethem with a La- 
 dle ; then put in two ounces of Orange- Flower- 
 water ; bruife in a Porringer, the bignefs of a 
 Bean of Orcaaer, allay it with a little Orange- 
 Flower water, put them into the Pomatum, 
 and work them up together with a Spoon, and 
 put it up for your ufe. 
 
 A Liquid Pajf, to wajli the Hands with- 
 out Water. 
 
 Take of bitter Almonds a pound, bruiftthem 
 well in a Stone Mortar, till no Lumps remain, 
 wet it with a little Milk, and make it into a Pafte, 
 beat the Crumbs of white Bread with a little 
 Milk, and put thafe with the Yolks of Eggs with- 
 out a Tread inco the Morrar to the Pafte ; beat 
 them up yet more, and then boil thtm till thick, 
 and keep them for ufe. T$ 
 
Art's Mafter-Pieee. ~3 
 
 To pake Spo:s or Stains cut of the Fc.ce, 
 Hjnds, cr any Part of the Body. 
 
 Take Litharge of Silver an ounce, the Juice 
 of Limon and a Sea- Onion, each a fpocnful, 
 mix thefe with a quarter of a pint of White- 
 Wine- Vinegar over a gentle Fire, and apply a 
 Rag dipped in them to the Spot, and often do- 
 ing, it will remove it. 
 
 To Whiten the Teeth like Ivory. 
 
 Take bruifed Coral and Pumice Stone, fine- 
 ly fifted, and by rubbing the Teeth well with, 
 them, they will be as white as thofe of Infants. 
 
 To make Hair Grow and Curl. 
 
 Take the Afhes of Fern roots a handful, as 
 much of thofe of the Vine, and make a Ley 
 with them in Ox Urine, boil in it a handful of 
 the Tops of Hyflbp, and wafh the Ends and 
 Roots of the Hair with it, or the Bald place, 
 and the Hair will immediately Grow and Cm J. 
 
 To take Spots or Stains out of Silk, 
 Stuffs,Woollen,Linen ; alfo Pitch, 
 Tar, Rofm, Wax; and to reco- 
 ver leaded Silks, or Linen. 
 
 To take Spots or Stains out of Silk. 
 
 Take an ounce of Flax-Seed, bruife it well 
 
 in two or three fpoonfulsofthe Juice of Limon, 
 
 D add 
 
74 ArCs Master-Piece. 
 
 add a quarter of an ounce of white Lead, and 
 £5 much of burnt Bone, mix them over a gen 
 tie fire, to a thicknefs, lay them on the Strainer. 
 
 To wake a Soap that will take Greafe, 
 Spots, or St aim out of Cloth ^ Silks or 
 Stuffs. 
 
 Burn a pound of Roach* Atom, and finely 
 pouder it, add to it half a pound of the Root 
 of an Herb, called Florence- flame, then a new- 
 bid Egg, and two pound and a half of Cake 
 Soap, bruife and mix them well together, that 
 they may ba made up with fair Water into 
 Balls ; then firft walh the place Stained or Spot- 
 ted with fair warm Water, fcrape the Soap 
 moid on it, and wafli it out, and in three or 
 four times thus doing, the blemilhes will difap- 
 pear. 
 
 Jo take Spots out of Linen. 
 
 Take two fpoonfuls of the Juice of an Oni- 
 on, and as much of Lime-juice, wet it two or 
 three times, as often drying it by a Fire, wafh 
 it immediately in a good Laver, and it is done. 
 
 A rood Ley to take out Spots or Stains. 
 
 Put half a pound of Soap- boilers Afhes in- 
 to two pints of Water ; let them remain three 
 days with often ftirring , then pour off the 
 clear Ley, and mix it with Fuller's Earth, and 
 lay it thick on the place, drying it in the Sun, 
 or by a Fire, and in two or thre* times doing, 
 it will effeft your defire. T» 
 
Art's Maffer-Tiece. 7f 
 
 To take Spots or Stains out of Coloured Silks, 
 Stuff's, Linen or Wollen. 
 
 Take Pumice-Stone and grind it to pouder, 
 put to it (harp Vinegar and FullerVEuth, let it 
 lie on and dry, then warn it-out with Milk, 
 and the Flower of Almonds. 
 
 A Wdj to take out Tar, Pitch, or Rofin. 
 
 Dab on this Oil of Turpentine, let that dry, 
 and put on more, and the third time when it is 
 dried you may rub out the Pitch, &e. for it 
 will crumble like Dirt. 
 
 To take out Oil, or Greafe. 
 
 Mix burnt Bone and Fuller's Earth with a 
 little White Wine, and Plaifter them on the 
 Spot, dry it by the Sun or Fire, and it will 
 fuck out all the Greafe in once or twice dol- 
 ing. 
 
 Sweet Pouders or Perfumes, &c. 
 
 To make grofs PcuJi r Ala Marchalc. 
 
 Take of Iris fixteen ounces , died Orange- 
 Flcwers twelve ounces, Coriander four ounces, 
 a pound of Provence Rofes, two ounces of 
 Angel- Water dregs, an ounce of Calamus, two 
 ounces of Souchet, half an ounce of Cloves, 
 beat them well one after another in a Mortar, 
 mix them, and finely fife them into one incor- 
 porated Peuder. D a Piudtr 
 
7^ Art's Mafter-Tiece. 
 
 Tender of Jefimine. 
 
 To make this, mix about a thoufand fprigs 
 and flowers of Jeffimine, amongft twenty pound 
 of fine Starch, in a clofe Box, lay them even, 
 making a Bed of Flowers, and a Bed of Pou- 
 der, and Jet them lie twenty four hours with- 
 out touching, then fhifc the Flowers, and put 
 frefh ones the fame quantity for three days, and 
 the Pouder will be well fcented. 
 
 Touder of Musked Rofes. 
 
 To do this well, you muft put the Musked 
 Rofes into the Powder, and leave them there 
 twenty four hours, in a clofe Box, fo fhifc them 
 three times, and they will give an excellent 
 fcent. 
 
 Ponder of Orange- Tlcvurs. 
 
 Mix a pound of good fcented Flowers with 
 twenty pound of Starch, or Rice grounds, min- 
 gle th*m, and fift them twice a day at leaft, for 
 thefe are fubjefcl to heat, and in twenty four 
 hours you muft fhift the Flowers, and put the 
 fame quantity of frefh ones in, and fotill there ' 
 is a good fcent, keeping it always clofe, unlefr 
 when you ufe it. 
 
 Touder of Violet s t or his. 
 
 In this cafe, beat the Iris, and pafs it through 
 a Sieve, mingle it with the Pouder, and ic 
 gives the natural fcent of a Violet„ 
 
 Pouder 
 
Att y i MaHcr-Tiece. 7-7 
 
 Vomer of An 
 
 Mix Jefllmine, Rofe, and Musk Pouder to- 
 gether, each a like quantity, then mix with 
 them the eighth parr of an ounce of the Ef- 
 fence of Amber; then fife the Pouder, but 
 break not the Lumps made by the Eflenee till 
 dried, then fife them in, Bnd mingle them well; 
 and in this manner with Flowers, EfTences, &:. 
 you may make what Scent you pleafe, Starch 
 being the Ground of tbefe Hair-Pouders, which 
 fucks the Scents, and contains it a very confidc- 
 rable time for ufe. 
 
 Wafh-Balls Perfumed, &c. 
 
 Common IVafl) Balls, to make diem. 
 
 Take a pound of white Cake Soap, fcrape it, 
 and beat it well in a Mortar; take out the Crum- 
 bles that are not well incorporated, and put in 
 a pound of Starch well poudered, an ounce of 
 the Eflenee of Orange, half a pint of Maca- 
 net-Water prepared, ftir them gently with 3 
 Peftle.then beat till they are all well mixed, make 
 the Pafte up into Balls, and let them dry. 
 
 Waft- Balls of Neroli. 
 
 Take eight pound of Cake- Soap well clean- 
 fed, put to it when fcraped, as much of Rofe 
 or Orange Flower, as will well temper it, ftir- 
 ring it twice a day, the better to foak; then 
 having beaten it well, put in a pound of Lab- 
 D j danum 
 
7° drt'j Majter- Piece. 
 
 danum in Pouder, and two ounces of Neroli, 
 mix them into a Parte, and Co make them into 
 Bails. 
 
 Bolognia Wajli Balls. 
 
 Take three Bundles or Boxes of thefe Balls, 
 beat them, and dip them in Angel Water, as 
 much as will well wet them, add half a pint of 
 Benjamin- Water, make two equal Cakes, of the 
 Pifte, by well beating, thtn heat very frnall two 
 drams of Musk or Civet, with two ounce 1 ; of 
 Balm of Peru, dropped .in by degrees; add to 
 rhefe the grofsEfTence of Amber, and feme Ef- 
 fence of Cloves, and fome Cinnamon, mix theft 
 with the Pafte, make it into Balls, and keep it 
 for a very curious Perfume ; and in this nature 
 other Wath Balls, or Parte may be made, and 
 perfumed with various Scents. 
 
 Sweet Btrgs, to make. 
 
 T«ke of Common Rofe-Leaves twelve oun- 
 ces, Lavender- Flowers a pound and a half, 
 Sweet Marjoram-Leaves twelve ounces, four 
 ounces of the Leaves of Myrrh, fix ounces of 
 Tyme-Leaves, four ounces of Mellilot- Leaves, 
 one of Rofe-mary , two of Cloves, one of 
 Musk Rofes , a good handful of Citron and 
 Orange- Flowers; put thefe in a Pot, making a 
 Ley of Leaves "and Flowers, and another oi 
 Salt, then flop it well, yet every other day, ftic 
 it wirh a ftick, expofing it to the heat of the 
 Sun in Summer, but not in the Rain, and fill 
 your Sweet- Bags wich thefe, and Pouder. 
 
Ari*s Mafter-PitU. f) 
 
 To perform Gloves, Fans, or Skins, with- 
 Flowers, &C 
 
 Grind on a fmooth clean Marble- Sf one, tvSo 
 drams of Civet, add three drops of the EflTcnce 
 of Orange-Flowers, and other Flowers, made 
 with Ben- Oil, add more, a few drops of Mille- 
 fleur- Water, grind by it felf Gum- Adragant, 
 about the bignefs of a Hazle Nut mixed with 
 Orange Flower- Water ; after that, mix your 
 Civet, dropping a little of the Millefleur- Wa- 
 ter; fo do till all is veil mixed, then put your 
 compoficion into a Moi tar, and pour more Wa- 
 ter, ftir it till it comes to a quarter of a pint, 
 lay it very even on your Gloves, Skins, &e> 
 dry them in the Air, open, and order them for 
 Colouring, and by this Rule, you may Perfume 
 them with any Scents. 
 
 Roman Gloves, how to Ttrfume. 
 
 Grind on a fine Marble, a dram of Civet, 
 with a few drops of ElTence of Orange Flower. 
 Water, then mix Gum- Adragant, of the big* 
 fiefs of a Hazle Nut, in other Orange- Flower- 
 Water, then warm a little Mortar, and infufe 
 in it* dram of Amber, with a few drops of 
 Orange-FIower-Watcr, pouring more to it by 
 degrees, till all come to about a quarter of a 
 pint, then mix again the Civet, with fome 
 drops of the fame Water, adding, till the whole 
 comes to half a pint, and then Perfume you* 
 Gloves, Skins, or Fan* with it. 
 
 D 4 Htw 
 
8© Art's Mafter-Tkce'. 
 
 Hoiv to Cohur and Perfume Gloves, at otote. 
 
 Chufe what Colours you like beft. end grind 
 fhem on a flat Stone, with a little Ben* Oil, or 
 the EfFence of Orange Flowers, or Jcflimin, 
 pour Orange-Flower-Water by degrees, ftill 
 grinding, then put to the Colours Gum-Adra- 
 gant, diliblved in Orange-Water, then being 
 well ground, pour all into an Earthen Pan with 
 more Water, taking the Colours, being not too 
 thick, and then dip a foft Brufli into i r , and 
 rub over Gloves, Skins, or Fans ; let them dry 
 in the Air, then fmooth and order them as is 
 requifite ; grind a bit of your Colour with a lit- 
 tle piece of GumAdragant, infufed in Ounge- 
 Flower, and very clear, rub them over with 
 thii, and it will keep the Scent a long time. 
 
 Several forts of Snuff, Solid and 
 Liquid, how to Make and Per- 
 fiur/ethem. 
 
 To Fr p-ire and Clean fe Svujf. 
 
 The Ground ox k is Tobacco dried into Ps>u- 
 der, that it will lift cuiioufly through a fine 
 Sieve, and then it requires briefly to be warned 
 and cleanfed in the following manner. 
 
 Soa!; it in Fair Water twenty four hours, 
 Chen take it out, and fqueeze it very well in a 
 Cloth, dry it in the Sun on Wicker Hurdles, 
 over which a fine Linen Cloth is laid, keeping it 
 turning, and ftining almoft continually 5 be- 
 
Arth Mafter -p w?. 8 i 
 
 ing dried, fprinkle Sweet- Water on if, as Orange, 
 Jefllmtne, Angel, or the like, then dry it again 
 and wet and dry it three times, by which means 
 it will be capable to take the impreffion of any 
 Scent, by being fprinkled on it, or infufed ; 
 but if you defign to colour it Red or Yellow, 
 :c muft be done before it is fcented, efpecially 
 for Flower-Scents, ic may be coloured with Red 
 or Yellow-Oker. 
 
 To Perfume Snuff with Flowers. 
 
 The Flowers moftufed in this, are Jeffiinine, 
 Orange, Musk, Rofes, Common Roles, Tube- 
 Rofes, &c. But thefe if ufed naturally, mud be ■ 
 helped with the EfFrn« of other Flowers, or 
 the fame; to do thi , ger a wooden Box, large 
 enough for your purpofe, lined wirhin with 
 dry White Paper, lay a laying of Snuff, and a 
 laying of Flower*, and let them ftand twenty 
 four hours, then fearce or fife the Snuff, to take . 
 out the Floweis, and renew them with i ther 
 Flowers; continue it four or five days, then le- 
 parate it, and keep it in clofe Boxes in a dryj 
 place for ufe. 
 
 Snujfy with Sp.wiflr Pi rfttmc. 
 
 Take a pound of Snuff that has been Perfu- 
 med with any fort cf Flowers, beat in a Mor- 
 tar twenty grains of Musk, with a little lump 
 of Sugar, fo put in your Snuff by degrees, 
 gently ftirring it about, and when the Mortatis 
 full, empty it gently, and cover it to keep in 
 the Scent "s much as may be, then put in ten - 
 D- 5 gsains i. 
 
8-2 Art's Master-Piece. 
 
 gfams of Civet, pur in the Snuff again, and 
 mingle them well, and Co keep it dry for ufe. 
 
 Hiw to take Spots or Stains out. of Scarkt 
 or Vtlvet. 
 
 To do this, take Soap Wort, a Herb of tha c 
 name, bruife it, and ftrain our the Juice, add a 
 little Black Soap, mix them well to a moderate 
 thicknefs , daub over the ftained or fpotted 
 place, wafh it out with warm water, and fuffe- 
 ring it to dry, do it again twice or Jhrice, and ic 
 will efTeS your defire. 
 
 To take Iron- Moulds, or Spots, out • 
 of Lintn, 
 
 Diflblve the Poudet of Burnt- Alom, in the 
 Juice of Limon, wet the place with ir, and dry 
 it. with the Back of a Spoon, in the fore part of 
 which is a live Coal, and in doing it five or fix 
 time*, the Iron Mould > or Spot will waih put. 
 
 Ta Recover Faded Linen. 
 
 Heat a gallon of New- Milk over the Fire, 
 artffcrape, a pound of Cake Soap into ir, and 
 when the Soap is well diflblved, boil the Linen 
 well therein, and then clap it into a hot Laver 
 of Water and other Soap, wafh it out well, and 
 it will recover its Strength and Colour, 
 
 To 
 
Art's Mafitr -Piece, ff* 
 
 To make Pouder-Inks, as the Lon- 
 ^«-Pouder«Ink, &c and Liquid 
 Shining Japan-Ink. 
 
 To make that which is called the London - 
 Pender- Ink. 
 
 Take ten ounces of the cleareft Nut-galls, 
 bruife them and fift the Pouder very fine, then 
 White Copperas two ounces, Ro-nan Vitriol 
 three ounces, Gum-Arabick, or Sandarack an 
 ounce, bruife and fife, them very firfe, fo that 
 though they appear Whire, a little being put 
 into Water, will in a little time turn it, and an 
 ounce of the Pouder will make a pint of very 
 Black Ink. 
 
 To make Japan, or Shining- Ink- 
 
 Take GumArabick and Roman- Vitriol, of 
 each an ounce, Galh well bruifed a pound, put 
 them into Rape Vinegar, or Vinegar made of 
 clear Small-Beer ; let them remain in a warm 
 place, often ftirring, till the Liquor becomes 
 bljek, then add to a gallon an ounce of Ivory* 
 Black, and a quarter of a pint of Seed- Lac 
 Varnifo, and it will be a curious Clack Shining 
 Ink. 
 
 A Ponder- hk to rub on Paper, and- 
 Write on: 
 
 Bruife about twenty Nut-galls, and half an 
 ounce of Roman] Vitriol, as much Gum-Ara- 
 bick 
 
#4 A*it r i Matfer-Vuct. 
 
 bick, ^pd GunvSandarack, mingle thefe finely 
 together, when well bruifed and lifted, to a 
 Pouder, nib the Paper hard" with it with Cot- 
 ton Woo], and polrfhing it with a piece of Ivo- 
 ry, write with Water, and in a little time, the 
 Letters you write will appears fair Black, as if 
 written with the belt Ink. 
 
 Receipts for the Cures of fundry 
 Diieales and Grievances, Inci- 
 dent to Men, Women and Chil- 
 dren, 
 
 For the J gut. 
 
 Take a little handful of the Tops of Rue, 
 boil them in a quart of White Wine, give ths 
 party half a pint, four times fucceffively, up- 
 on four Cold Fits approaching, if the Ague 
 lift fo long, and put the party into a warm Bed, 
 this mull be drank as hot as the Patient can 
 drink it. 
 
 To Eafi and Remove the Taws of the Gout. 
 
 Take two ounces of Sarfaparills, cut it fmail, 
 and boil it in a quart of Small- Beer, till a 
 third part be confumed, drink it as hot as may 
 be, and about a quarter of an hour after, bathe 
 in with your warm hands a mixture equally of 
 the Spirit of Wine, and the fine It Oil of Tur- 
 pentine, where the affli&ing Pain is, and it gives 
 prefent safe, and in a fhort time makes it ceaft. 
 
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 For 
 
Art's Maffitr-Tiic:, 8$ 
 
 For Tains of the'Teith. 
 
 Take Henbane Seed, and Hyflbp-Seed, bruife 
 them finely together, mix them that they may 
 ftick well, with a little Oil of Spikenard, if 
 hollow, flop the Tooth with thefe, and a piece 
 of Lint dipped in the Oil ; if not, tie up the 
 quantity of a large Pea, in a fine thin Rag, 
 and lay it to the Root of the Tooth, and the 
 Pain will foon ceafe. 
 
 Jo take away Corns. 
 
 Cut well and clofe, take out as much of the 
 Co3r as you can ; then rake Burnt- Alom, and 
 the Pith of an Oifter that flicks to the Shell, 
 dried and poudered, incorporate thefe with a 
 little Venice-Turpentine, put into the hollow- 
 nefs, if there be any, a little Tent of Lint 
 dipped in the" Oil of Cloves, and lay en the o- 
 ther as aTlafter, and it in a Weeks time with 
 thrice renewing, takes away the Corn, making 
 Flefh arife to fill the hollo wnefs. 
 
 For Blasts, Burns, or Scalds, 
 
 Take Ointment of Tobacco a quarter of an 
 ounce, Pidgeons, or Pullets Dung half an 
 ounce, Sallad Oil two fpoonfuls, Snow-Water 
 the like quantity, Cream a quarter of a pint, 
 and the White of a New-laid Egg, beat and 
 bruife thefe till they become a pliable Ointment 
 over a gentle fire, fpread them on a fair Cloth, 
 and lay it to the alfli&ed Part, and in three or 
 four times renewing, it will take cut the fire, 
 
 and 
 
%6 ArSs Matter-Viece. 
 
 and put the Party in an eafie wiy of Recove- 
 For the. Stone or Gravel, in the Reins 
 or Bladder. 
 
 Take green Parfley, if it can be gor, that is 
 running to Seed ; if not, other Parfly, ftampif, 
 and fqueeze our an ounce of the Juice, and as 
 much of that of a very hard Onion ; take a 
 little handful of Sloes, bruife them that the 
 Stones may break, mix thefe with a pint or 
 White- wine,and boil it well,then add to the (trai- 
 ned Liquor, a quart r of an ounce of calcined 
 Crabs-Eyes or Claws, and let the Patient drink 
 farting half of it, and move up. *nd down 
 fwiftly, and within a quarter of an hour the 
 reft, and it will fpeedily afford eafe, and bring 
 away Sand and Gravel, if it remain in the Uie- 
 ters, or Neck of the Bladder or Yard. 
 
 Thus Reader have I made good my Promife 
 in th s crouded Work, full of variety, anditiua 
 now proceed to the Second Part. 
 
 TiHE 
 
Art's Majter-Piecd. 87 
 
 THE 
 
 SECOND PART. 
 
 G H A P. I. 
 
 To make Glafi of Chryftals, of all the feve- 
 ral Co/ours, as Greens, Geld, Tello"W s 
 Blacky Garnet, Sapphire, iRuhy, Ame- 
 thy ft, Chryfial, Pearl, Turquas, and ma' 
 ny other Oriental Colours j the ground 
 Work of making Glafs> and to prepare 
 the Materials, 
 
 The Foundation of the Work for 
 Glafs-wakrng.. 
 
 THe firft thing to be confidered in this, ir 
 the Pulverine of Rochetta, which is the 
 Allies of certain Herbs growing in the Levant 
 and Syria, making a whiter Salt than Barrilla of 
 Spain, and more excellent for fair and beautiful 
 Chryflal. 
 
 To extrafi this Salt, pouder the Aihes, and 
 fift them very fine, and to know how thefe Afh> 
 ts prove, touch them with your Tongue, to try 
 
 CM 
 
88 Art's Matter -Tkce. 
 
 the more or lefs Saltnefs, or make an EfTay in a 
 Melting-Pot, to know whether they bear much 
 Sand, or Tarfo, a thing ufual in this Arc. 
 
 Having tried your Aflhes, fet up Brafs Cop- 
 pers,, with their Furnaces in Imitation of thofe 
 ufed in Dying, greater or lcffer, as the quanti- 
 ty of Salt intended to be made requires ; fill 
 them with fair Water, and let your Fud be 
 dry Wood, and when the Water boils, put in 
 the Pulverine, in a juft quantity and proporti- 
 on to the Water, and boiJ it with a continued 
 Fire, till the third pare of the Water be con- 
 fumed, mixing them well at the bottom with a 
 Scummer, that the Pulverine may well incor- 
 porate with the Water, and all its Salt be ex- 
 tracted, then put in other fair Water , and 
 boil it till half be cojafumed, and fo there will 
 be a Lea impregnated with the Salt, bur to en- 
 creafe the quantity of the Salt, and have it 
 whiter, boil in the Warer, before yon put in 
 the Pulveriae Twelve Pound of Copper of 
 Tartar, of Red-Wine, calcined to a -black Co- 
 lour only. 
 
 When two Thirds of the Water is confumed 
 in boiling, flacken the Fire, feafon earthen 
 Pans with fair Water, fix Days, then put the 
 Lees into them with large Braf. Lad! s, as 
 as alfo the Ice you find in thz Coppers, with 
 the Afhss, and having filled the Pans, let them 
 ftand Ten Days, and in that time the; Afhes will 
 be at the bottom, and the Ice' remain very 
 clear, which muft be taken gently off with 
 Brafs Ladles, that the bottom r>!e net ; put it in 
 other Pans, and let it ftand Two Days, thaJ be- 
 ing purged from Setlings, it may be more clear 
 
 and 
 
Arfs Mafier-Viece. 89 
 
 and Limpid, which will be effectual when thrice 
 fettled, and fo work till you have Materials 
 ("efficient. 
 
 To llrain the Lees, and extract the Salt, in 
 the firft Place, let the Coppers be well waflicd 
 with clear Water, fo fill them with the refined 
 Lees ; let them boil gently, and fill the Coppers 
 with the Ice, till it thicken and fhoot its Salt, 
 which ufually happens about the beginning of 
 Twenty four Hours, fo that on the fuperficial 
 part, Salt will appear like white Threads, or 
 Spider's Webs; then fink a Scummer, full of 
 Holes, to the bottom of the Copper, and then 
 the Salt will fall upon it, and now and then take 
 it out, fufFering the Lees to tun well off, and 
 put the Salt into Tubs, or Earthen Pans, by 
 which means the Ice may the better drain ; 
 fave the Liquor that drains from it, to put into 
 the Copper, and dry the Salt; fo continue to 
 do till all the Salt be gotten out of the Copper, 
 and when the Salt is well drained and dried, 
 put it into Wooden Velfels, which will fuck up 
 the Moifture ; and fo from Three hundred 
 Weight of Afties, Eighty or Ninety pound of 
 Salt may be gotten proper for this curious 
 Work, Which being well dried, beat it grofly, 
 and put it into the Calcar, a kind of a calcining 
 Furnance, to dry with a gentle heat ; rake it 
 over with an Iron Rake, when it is dty, take 
 it out, pound it well, and fift it, that the big- 
 geft Pieces exceed not Grains of Corn ; when 
 it is fo ordered, it mud be kept clean from Duft 
 or other Annoiances to make Frit of CryftaJ, 
 which is made in the following manner. 
 
 Tt 
 
90 Art*i AJAjfai-'Piece. 
 
 To make Frit of Chryftal, or Bolltte. 
 
 To make this, conHder if you would have 
 your Chryltal fair, that you procure the fineiV 
 Tarfo, a kind of hard and moft white Marble, 
 found in Tufcany, beat it fmall with an Iron 
 Peftle, in a Mortar, and lift it as fine as Flour, 
 and put Two hundred pound of it to about 
 One hundred and thirty pound, of Pulverine 
 Salt, fo ordered, and mix them very well toge 
 ther; then put them into a Calcar, at firft well 
 heated for an Hour, make a temperate Fire, 
 and rake the Frit with an Iron Rake, that it 
 may be well incorporated and calcined ; then 
 encreafe the Fire, raking the Frit for Five Hours, 
 and railing the Fire by Degrees to a ftrong one, 
 and when it is fufficiently done, take out the 
 Frit, lay it on a Floor, cover it with a Cloth; 
 and keeping all Duft from it, it will be as white 
 as Snow ; keep it then in a dry Place, that the 
 Salt relent not, for if it do, and run from the 
 Tarfo, it will not vitrifie, and if it (land Three 
 or Pour M6nths, it will be the better to put in 
 the Pott, and foon wax clear, and be fit to pre* 
 pare a curious Chryftal Glafs. 
 
 To make cowmen Glafs. 
 
 Frit of ?ulveririe makes an excellent whice^ 
 and common fair Glafs Frit of Rochetta makes 
 that between Chryftal -and common Glafs, as 
 much Maganeift well prepaied, muft be ufed in 
 Common a»Cbryftalline Glafs, and thefe, that 
 you may have them the fairer, muft once at 
 1 2 Icaft 
 
Art's Mafier. Piece. 9 1 
 
 leaft be caft into Water, and if you would hav e 
 them very fair, oftener, as you fee convenient, 
 and then you may work them into what VeflcJs 
 youpleafe; and to make them whiter, let them 
 be well calcined, that there may be the fewer 
 BUfters, and particularly obferve, that if to each 
 of them themfelves you put upon the Frit the 
 Proportion of Twelve pound of Salt of Tar- 
 tar, purified, to a Hundred Pound of Frit, the 
 Glafs will be more pliable to work, and fairer 
 than ordinary ; and herein Note, That you put 
 in the Salt of Tartar when the Frit is made, and 
 then mix the Sand or Tarfo with the Rochetta 
 or Pulverine well fiftcd, and make them of a 
 Frit as before. 
 
 Hoiv to pu*ife Salt of Tartar far this IVork. 
 
 Take the Lumps of Tartar of Red Wine, 
 calcine it in Earthen Pots till it becomes black, 
 and its oily Quality confumed, and it begins to 
 turn white; but let it not come to perfeQ 
 Whitenefs, becaufe then its Salt will be nought j 
 put it then into Earthen Pans, full of fair Wa 
 ter, heated alfo into glazed Earthen Pots; make 
 it boil over a gentle Fire, that a fourth part of 
 the Water mav in Two Hours be evaporated, 
 then take it off to cool, and when the Water is 
 become clear, decant it into other Veflels, and 
 it will be a ftrong Ice ; then put into the Pans 
 more common Water upon the remainder of 
 the Tartar, and let chem boil as before, till the 
 Water becomes no more Brackiih. 
 
 This done, filter thefe Waters, and impreg. 
 nate with Sale; put the Altered Ice into Glafs 
 
 Bodies, 
 
92 Arfs McjIer'Tkce. 
 
 Bodies, to evaporate in the Allies of the Fur- 
 nace at a gentle Heat, and in the bottom a 
 white Salt will remain, which diflblve in warm 
 Water, and when it is Two Days fettled, eva- 
 porate it at a gentle Heat, in Glafs Bodies, and 
 there will be a whiter Salt remain at the bottom 
 than the former ; diflblve this again, and filter 
 and evaporate it after Two Days fettling, in 
 the manner as before. Doallthefe things Four 
 Times, arid the Salt will be of ths whitenefsof 
 Snow, which Salt, mixed with Rochetta and 
 Pulverine, mixed with a fufficient quantity of 
 Tarfo, will make an excellent Frit, that put in 
 the Pot, yields Chryftalline and common Glafs, 
 much fairer than that which is made without 
 this Salt of Tartar, 
 
 Of Colouring Glafs, and jirft a curi- 
 ous Green. 
 
 Having given you the ground-Work for 
 white Glafs, the molt excellent Way, I come 
 now to revive that excellent Art of Colouring 
 Glafs. 
 
 To make a curious Green in Glafs to a Pot 
 of Ten Pound of the Metal of white Glafs, 
 viz. half of Chryftalline, feveral times pafTed 
 through Water, and the other half the com- 
 mon white Metal of Pulverine. Take Four 
 Pound of the common Frit of Pulverine ; 
 with thefe mix Three Pound of Red-Lead, u- 
 nite them well together, and put them into a 
 Pot, and all of them in a few Hours will be 
 well purified, then caft the Metal into Water, 
 
 and. 
 
Art's Ma(ter-Viece. pj 
 
 and take out the Lead, (o return the Metal in- 
 to the Pot ; let it purifie for the fpace of Twen- 
 ty four Hours, at what time, if you put in the 
 Colour, made Chimically with the Fouder of 
 the Caput Mortuum, of the Spirk of Fitriolum 
 Veneris, adding a fmall quantity of Crocus Mar- 
 tit, the Colour will be perfe&ed, and there will 
 arife a marvellous pleafant Green, refembling 
 the Oriental Emerald, 
 
 Another curious Green, Fair and Shining. 
 
 To do this,put Chryftalline into a Pot that has 
 not had any Maganefe in it, and which his 
 once or twice paffed through Water to takeout 
 the Saltnefs, and to it put in half as much 
 Common 1 or white Metal, made of Pulverine, 
 atfeveral Times, and when it is well mixed and 
 purified, put to every Hundred Pound, Two 
 Pound and a half of thrice calcined Brafs , 
 made in the Arches of the Furnace, with Plates 
 of Brafs, and with this mix Two Ounces of 
 calcined Crocas Martis, calcined with Brimftone, 
 and reverberated ; and thefe Pouders being 
 well mixed together, put them to the Metal, 
 and if it has any Bluenef?, add a little more of 
 the Pouder of Crocus Mart is, and it will take, it 
 away and work it well with the Metal, accor- 
 ding to Art, and there will be a wonderful 
 Green of the Burnet. 
 
 A fair Sva Green inChrj(ta!. 
 
 Put about Sixty Pound of Chryftal Frit in a 
 Pot well fcummed, and notcaft into the Water, 
 
 and 
 
94 Art's Mafier-Piece. 
 
 and to the Metal put a Pound and a half of the 
 Scales of Brafs that come off by hammering 
 the Fite when you have well calcined them, 
 Four Ounces Of well-prepared Zaffer , the 
 Pouders being well mixed together before they 
 are put into the Chryftal, puc them in at Four 
 times, mixing well the Pouders with the Me- 
 talTwo Hours, and then give it another Mix- 
 ture, zf is ufual in this Work, and make a proof 
 of it till the Colour has taken. A beautiful Sea- 
 Green, may be made in this manner , with half 
 Chryftal, and half Rochetta. 
 
 A Cheap Green. 
 
 Take the like quantity of Zaf&r and Brafs; 
 prepared as before, put them in the fame Man- 
 ner and Form to the Rochetta of the Levant, 
 as alfo that of pain, neither of them having 
 had any Maganefe, but been well fcummed, 
 and not palled through Water, ufing the Rules 
 as aforefaid in the Green Chryftal, and by this 
 means it will receive a very fair Colour, and 
 may be afforded at a very cheap Rate. 
 
 A Gold Tellow in Glafs. 
 
 To do this, take Rochetta Frit one 'part* 
 Chryftal Frit two Jparts, being both made with 
 Tarfo, mix them well together, and to every 
 Hundred Wright, take of Tartar in Lumps, 
 well beaten, and lifted fine, wirh prepared Ma- 
 ganefe, each One Pound, nvx the Pouders well 
 wirh themfelve*. and then wirh the Frit fo put 
 them into the Furnace, and let them (land Four 
 
 Days 
 
Art*i Mafter-V-iect. 95 
 
 Days at an ordinary Fire, by Reafon they will 
 rife much, and the Metal being purified, and 
 the Colour well mixed with it, work it into 
 what you think convenient for your ufe. In 
 this Cafe you muft obferve to put your Co- 
 lours in ac feveral times, that the Colour may 
 take the better, and you may heighten or lef- 
 fen the Colour, the more or lefs ynu put in. 
 But if you would have a fair good Colour, lee 
 theFritbeallChryftal. 
 
 Glajsy a Garnet Colour. 
 
 Take a like quantity of Rochetta and Chry- 
 ftal Frit, and to every Hundred Pound add One 
 Pound of Maganefe, and an Ounce of prepa- 
 red Zaffer, mix them well together before you 
 put them to the Frit ; put them into the Pot 
 by little and little, and at the end of Twenty 
 four Hours, when it is well mixed, and of a pure 
 Colour, work it into Form. 
 
 To make Glafs of Sapphire Colour. 
 
 Add a Pound of Zaffer to every Hundred 
 Weight of Rochetta Frit ; let the Zaffer be 
 well prepared, and to every Pound of it add an 
 Ounce of Maganefe, mix the Poudtrs well to* 
 gether by themfelves, and after that with the 
 Frit ; put them 'hus mixed into a Furnace, 
 melt and purifTe them, and when it is pure and' 
 well coloured, woik it, and the Colour will be 
 fine and durable. 
 
 n 
 
C)6 Art's Maftw-Tiece. 
 
 To make Glafs of the Colour of AmethyH. 
 
 Take the Chryftal Frit.made of the F, neft Tar- 
 fo, Maganefe well prepared 3 Pound, Zaffer, 
 done the like, one Ounce and a half; firft mix 
 thefe Pouders well together by tb*m : f elves, and 
 then with the Frit, not with the Metal in the 
 Pot. The Proportion is a Pound of the Frit to 
 an ounce of the mixed Pouder, and when it is 
 pure and well coloured, work it as you pleafe. 
 
 A Sapphire Colour, very fair. 
 
 'Inftead of Rochettatake Chryftal Frit, then 
 add tke fame quantity of Pouder, as to the o- 
 ther Sapphire.and order it in all Points the.fame 
 way, and you will have a fair Alining Sapphire 
 coloured Glafs. 
 
 To make Glafs a very curious Black. 
 
 To do this, take the Frit of Chryftal and Pul- 
 verine Twenty Pound each, Calx of Tin and 
 Lead Four Pound, mix them well together, put 
 them in a Pet, into a Furnace well heated, and 
 the Metal being' pure, take Steel well- calcined, 
 and poudered Scales of Iron falling from the 
 Smith's Anvils, each an equal quantity, pouder 
 and well mix them, put Six Ounces of this to 
 the Metal ; let them ftrongly boil, and then fet- 
 tle Twelve Hours, mixing fometimes the Metal , 
 and then work it, and it will be a very fair Vel- 
 vet Black, fit for all Devices that require it. 
 
 To 
 
 
Arf>s Maftcr-Ticce* 97 
 
 To m'ske Glajs, another fine Black. 
 
 Take of Rochetra Frit, about Two jhufidred 
 Pound, to this put Two Pound of Tartar, 
 and Six of Maganefc, both in Pouder, and well 
 mixed ; then put them leifurely into the Fur- 
 nace, and when they are melted and purified, 
 which will be at the end of Four Days, then 
 mix and wafh the Metal, which will make a 
 very curious Black. 
 
 To make Glajs a very dtep Re J. 
 
 Take Twenty Pound of Chryfral Frit, One 
 Pound of broken Pieces ofw hiteGlaf$,and Two 
 Pound of calcined Tin, mix them together, 
 and put them into a Pot to run and purine, and 
 when they are melted , take calcined Steel, 
 Scales ef Iron falling from the Anvil, of each 
 a like quantity, grind them well together, and 
 when the Metal is purified, put leifurely an 
 Ounce of thefe to it , fo mix them well, 
 and let them incorporate, which may be well 
 done in Five or Six Hours ; buc beware you put 
 not in too much Pouder, for that will make 
 the Metal Black, whereas the Colour ought to 
 be tranfparent, and not Opaeotts, of an obfcure 
 Yellow. When you find it fo, forbear puting 
 in any more Pouder, but put in Three quar- 
 ters of an Ounce of Brafs, calcined toRednefs; 
 let it be well ground, and in Three or Four 
 Times mixing it will be as Red as Blood, for 
 which Reafon, make frequent Efliys, to try 
 the Goodnefs of the Colour ; then take it in 
 E the 
 
9 8 Arts JMafter-picce. 
 
 the Nick, or it will lofe its Colour, and become 
 Black ; and chat it may not do fo, leave the 
 Mouth of the Pot open; let it not ftand above 
 Ten Hours in the Furnace, and fuffer it to cool 
 as little as poflible ; and if you perceive the Co- 
 lour fade, which fometimes it will do, put it 
 fome Scales of Iron, which will reduce it ; and 
 by Reafon this is one of the nicefr. Colours tc 
 be made, be careful in every thing efpecially 
 putting in the Steel and Scales, as alfo in work 
 ing it. 
 
 To make a fair Milk-white Glafs, cal- 
 led Lattimo. 
 
 To do this curioufly , take Cliryftal Frii 
 Twelve Pound: calcined Tin and Lead Twt 
 Pound, mix them well together, then take Man 
 ganefe, prepared, half an Ounce, incorporate 
 them well, and put them into a Pot heated; 
 fuffer them to ftand Twelve Hours, thac th< 
 Materials may be well melted, and fo workir:| 
 them, it will come a fair White, very pleafan 
 to the Eye. 
 
 To make Glafs another fair White- 
 To do this, take about Four hundred Poun 1 
 of ChryiM Ft it, and Sixty Pound of In 
 calcined Two Pound and a half of Manganef 
 prepared, Pouder them well, and mi < thee 
 with the Ftit, and fet them in a Pot in the Fui 
 nace and let them refine Eighteen Hours, an 
 then' it will be purified ; then caft it into Ws 
 ter and purifie it again in the Furnace, an 
 
Art*s Mafier-Vicce. 99 
 
 make an EflTay, and if it be too clear, add Fif- 
 teen Pound more of calcined Tin, mix it of- 
 ten well with the Metal, and at the end of 
 Twenty four Hours it will become exceeding 
 White, and fo work it. You may make this in 
 the fame manner, with Rochetta Frit, but not 
 fo pure a White. 
 
 To make Glafs Peach- Colour in White. 
 
 Work this as the fair Milk-white, or Latti- 
 mo, only with a little more Manganefe, and it 
 will be of a Peach Bloom Colour ; but take the 
 exaft time to work it, when it has its full Co- 
 lour, Ieaft it lofes it. 
 
 To make. Marble-coloured Ghfs. 
 
 This is eafily done, obferving well the Rule, 
 which is to put Chryftal Frit in a Pot, and 
 when it is melted, before it is purefled, work 
 it, and it produces a fine Marble- Colour. 
 
 To wake Vearl Colour. 
 
 Melt and purifie Chryftal, and put to it, at 
 Three or Four times, Tartar calcined to White- 
 nefs, or fo many times, that on the EfTay you 
 find theChryftal has taken aPear-Colour,fo work 
 it off fpeedily, lead the Colour fhould fade. 
 
 Frit of Natural Cbryfial, &C. 
 
 To make this, you muft have natural Chry- 
 ftal, and calcine it in a Crucible, extinguifhing 
 it Eight times in fair Water, covering it fo 
 E 2 tlofe, 
 
ioo ArPi Mafter-Viece. • 
 
 clofe, that no Afhes or Dirt get in, and wher 
 the Chtyftal is well calcined , dry if, and 
 
 Prind it to an impalpable Pouder ; mix thi: 
 ouder with Salt of Fuiverine, made in a Glafi 
 Body, and make Frit with them, obferving th< 
 Quanties, Rules and Proportion of Maganefe 
 as in other Frit fetiag it into the Furnace,and si 
 due and oftentimes carting it into the Water 
 and purifying it, work it as other Chryftal, ano 
 you will make a curious Matter of it. 
 
 To make Glnfs Blue, er Turquois. 
 
 Take that Sea-Salt tint is called Black, 01 
 Grofs Salt, put it into the Calcar, or Furnello 
 till all the Moiftare be evaporated, wnd it be 
 comes White; beat it well into a fine Pouder 
 put it into a Pot of Chryftal Metal, died tvirr 
 the "Colour of Sea Green, made as I have di 
 reeled, put in the calcined Salt by little and lit 
 tie, and mix it well with the. Metal, ri!! the Sea 
 Green lofes its Tranfparency and Diaphanety, 
 and takes Opacity. For the Salt once vitrified, 
 makes the Metal lofe its Tranfparency, giving ij 
 aPalenefs, and by little and little encreafes to ( 
 Sky Colour, or that of a Turquois Stone, an« 
 when it has taken this Colour, it muft be fpeej 
 dily worked, or the Salt will be loft by Evapoj 
 ration ; and if the Colour be loft, you mul 
 begin your Work again with frefh calcinci 
 Salt. And now, before I go further in thj 
 curious Arf, known but to a few, having mad 
 mention of many things ufeful in Glafs Wot I 
 for the better Underftanding of the Reader 
 ihall give a mors partisutec Account of them. 
 
 1 
 
' Art's Masltr-Viece. 10* 
 
 To prepare Zaffer, ufeful in many Colours. 
 
 Take this in grofs Pieces, let it fund Twelve 
 Hours in the Furnace, in Earthen Pans, fo put 
 it into an Iron Ladle, to be heated red-hot in 
 the Furnace, and taking it thence, fprmMeic. 
 with firong Vinegar, and beiag cold, grind it 
 on a fine Porphvry-Ston?, and wafh it in gla- 
 zed Earthen Veifcls, with warm Water, fup- 
 ring the Zaffer to fettle at the bottom, and then 
 decant it gently off, which will take away the 
 Do Is, and leave whit is pure, fo that the Tih- 
 £lure-wiH remain in the bottom ; and thus pre- 
 pared a rad purified, it will tinge more excellent 
 than at firft, making a Limpjd and clear Tin- 
 aure, which well dried, may be kept in clofe 
 Veflels for ufe. 
 
 To prt'pxre Mawganefe for colouring Ghfs. 
 
 Take that of Piemtmt, as being the beft of all 
 others, put it into Iron Ladles, and in all th* 
 reft proceed as in the Zaffer. 
 
 To muke Ferret to of Spain to colour Ghfs. 
 
 To So this, calcine Copper, that the Metal- 
 being opened, may communicate its Tinfture 
 to the Ghfs, viz. Take thin Plates of Goppery 
 of the bignefs of a Florentine, and have one or 
 more Goldfmirhs melting Pors; make a Layer of 
 Brimftone, pouder'd in the bottom of one of 
 thefe, then a layer of Plates, and over them 
 another Layer of Ponder, and in this order fill 
 E 3 the, 
 
102 ArPs Mj Her- Piece. 
 
 the Pot, which is otherwife faid to make a 
 SSS Cover. Lure ir well and dry the Pot, 
 tnen put it info an open Wind Furnace, amidft 
 burning Coa^s ; give it a ftrong Fire for Two 
 Hours, and when it is cold, vou will find the 
 Copper calcined. Thiv Copper, beaten fmall, 
 and fearfed into fine Pouder, muft be kept for 
 ufe. 
 
 To make or prepare Crocus Martis, ufed 
 for colouring Glafi, 
 
 This is no other than fubtilizing and calcining 
 of Iron. To do it, take the Filing- of Iron, 
 or thofe of Steel, which are better, mix them 
 well with Three Parts of Pouder of Sulphur, 
 put them into a melting Pot, and then into a 
 Furnace to calcine, and burn well off all the 
 Bfimflone, fo lee it (land Four Hours in bur- 
 ning Coals, then take and pouder it ; fearfe the 
 Pouder very fine, and put it into a Crucible, 
 covered and luted at the top, then fet it in the 
 Leer of the Furnace, near the Occhio, or the 
 Cavtler, Fifteen Days , or fom:what more, 
 and it will ba of a redilh Colour, enclining 
 fomewhat to Purple. Ktepit in a clofe Vefftl, 
 to be ufed in Glafs Colours, in which it is ufed 
 with admirable Succefs. 
 
 To calcine Bra;s, called Oi pe}lo_, or Tre- 
 molant«3,. makinz a curious Sea-Green 
 
 or Sky Colour . 
 
 Take thin Brafs, and cut it in fmall Pieces, 
 fo'puc it into a Ctucible, covered and luted at 
 
 the 
 
Art" 1 * Majier'Thce. log 
 
 *he top, fet that in a fierce Fire ; let it ftand 
 Four Days in a great, but not a melting Fire, 
 for if it melt, your Labour is loft. In that 
 time it will be very well calcined, fo pouderic 
 in the moft fubtil 4 manner ; fearfe and grind it 
 fine on a Porphyry-Stone, and there will be 3 
 black Pouder, which fptead on Tiles, and keep 
 it in a Leer, on burning Coals Four Days, near 
 to the round Hole ; take away the A&esthac 
 fall upon it, pouder and fearfe it again, and fo 
 keep k choicely for UCe ; and to know whether 
 it be well calcined, put it into Glafs, and if ic 
 makes it fwell it is right, but if not, it is not 
 well calcined, or elfe over-burned, and then ic 
 will not Colour well. 
 
 To calcine Brafi another vjay^ to wake 
 a Tranjfatrtnt ^Rjd. 
 
 Cut it fmall as the forgaer, and put it inro a 
 melting Pot, with Layings of Pouder of Brim- 
 ftone, and Metal, as in Copper; firft kt it on 
 kindled Coals, then put it into a ftrong Fire in 
 the Furnace, co calcine for Twenty Four 
 Hours; then pouder and fearfe it, put it co- 
 ver'd into the Furnace, on Tiles of Earth for 
 Twelve Days to reverberate ; Co pouder, grind, 
 and keep it for ufe , and befide a Red, it con- 
 tributes principally to the making a Yellow and 
 Chalcedony. 
 
 A Rc'I Colour from Brafs. 
 
 Put fmall Pieces of it in the Arches of the 
 
 Furnace, and let them be there clofe, till they 
 
 E 4 are 
 
1 O 4 'Art* $ Majfer. Piece. 
 
 are well calcined but in fuch a Fire as they may 
 not melt, and when calcined, pouder the Braft, 
 and the Pouder will be red and excellent in many 
 Ufes, for colouring Glafs. Brafs, thrice cabi- 
 ned, is like.wife very excellent, and is ordered 
 in the following manner. 
 
 Brafs thrice calcined, to make a curious 
 Cohu- in Giafs* 
 
 Put this on the Leer, or into the Furnello 
 of the Furnace, near to the Occhio, into Pans 
 baked, or Earthen Tiles, calcine it Four Days. 
 and you will have a black Pouder, flicking to- 
 gether ; beat it fine and fearfe it ; calcine it as 
 before, but a Day longer, and then it will not 
 flick together and be of a RufTet Colour, and 
 fo the third time,but obferve it be not too much 
 nor too little calcined.for then it will not Colour 
 well ; and to know whfen it is well, put it to pu- 
 rified Metal.it will make it boil andfwcll,and if it 
 does not, it is too much or too little. 
 
 This makes a curious Sea- Green , and an 
 Emerald Green. The Arabian Colour, cal- 
 led Turquois, a curious Sky-Colour, with other 
 Varieties. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
Art's Mafter-Yme. joy 
 
 C H A P. II. 
 
 To make Glafs of Lead, of m.. < heart*-. 
 ful Colours, n-fimhling thofe of c ' 
 
 Precious Stones , as Emerald;, Toy,. 
 and others, and the Materials uftful in 
 the Work. 
 
 The Ground Wok for making Glafs of Lead. 
 
 HP His is a very curious Art, which but a few 
 1 underftand, efpecially as to the Colours, 
 though it may be held the nobleft and faireft of 
 all other Glafs, yet great Caution mull be ufed 
 in making it, for being well made, it imitates 
 the true Oriental Gems, which cannor iowtlj 
 be done in Chryftal, or any other Glafs j }ee 
 you muftufe gieat Diligence in melting it, lead 
 all forts of Pots are broken in doing it, and fo 
 the Metal run in the Furnace ; and the Bufinefs 
 chiefly confifts , rightly in knowing how to 
 calcine Lead, and to re- calcine it a fecond time, 
 for the more it is calcined, the lefsit returns to 
 Lead, and lefs endangers your Pots. 
 
 Gbferve alfo to caft the Metal into Water, 
 and by that Means feparate the Metal from the 
 Glafs, even the laft Grains of it, but it muft 
 be done by little and little, that the Separation 
 may be made the better, for the leaft Lead re» 
 maining, breaks out the bottom of the Pot, 
 and lets the Metal Fall out; and farther obferve, 
 that the Pots and Lead muft not have too much 
 Heat in the Furnace, neither muft the Metal be 
 <E 5 wrought 
 
jo6 Art* i Mashr-Viece. 
 
 wrought t. o hot ; and the Marble w herein i* 
 is wrought, rntifi be of the hardefl Stone, and 
 be wetted, or elfe it will break and fcale. 
 
 A curious Way to calcim Lead. 
 
 At fir ft calcine it in a Kiln, as Potters ufe, in 
 a greai quantity, and in Two Days they ufuslly 
 calcine rhree or Four Hundred Weight. In 
 calcining take efpecial Notice, that the KHn be 
 notroohot bur fa that it may keep the Lead in 
 Continual Fnfjulion; or or her way sit will not be 
 calcined. Wier. i is wefl melted, you will ob- 
 fetve at the cop a^ yettowifh Marrer; then pre- 
 patero draw forward the calcined part with an 
 Iton fumble for rhe pm p'-fe, ever fptesding it 
 in the Internal Ekrremjty of rlic Kilr/.s t':ntom, 
 which ought to r^e of Ait: Stone, tlut will bear 
 the Fire, and rh* K ! muft have a d.eclinative 
 towards the M- mb. When it is calcined, it 
 muft be put and fpread a fec«>nd time in the 
 Kiln, t!:a* fdin a convenient Heai it may re- 
 \„t'- .•■•■• kv-epi it fl ring with the Iron, for 
 ieveiv! [lotus, ilf u •••■ Is fecond Cal- 
 
 cina: 6ri . - : Yi calcined ; 
 
 then ii;, f it -t^ « »afl«S not the 
 
 Searfe, reCaicioe it with new L 
 
 To make Glafs-of Lead. 
 
 Take Fifteen ifound of calcined Lt-jd Chry- 
 flat Rochet ta, Or Pulverine FrityiCcbrding as you 
 would make the Colours " wrelve Potfnd, mix 
 them excsvhflg wetf, and pu theni into a Pot; 
 lee them ftand Ten Hours, and then call them 
 
 into 
 
Arfs Ma(tcr-?iece. 107' 
 
 into Water, for by that time they will be well 
 melted ; feparate the Lead, and return the Me- 
 tal into the Per, which at the end of Twelve 
 Hours will be fit to work. 
 
 How to work the Glafs of Lead. 
 
 To work this irato VefTels, it will be necef- 
 fary, before it is taken upon the Iron, to be a 
 little raifed in the Pot ; fo take it out, and fuf- 
 fer it to cool a little, then work it on the Mar- 
 ble, being clear at rlrft ; let the Stone be wee 
 with cold Water, that the G'afs may not draw 
 away with it the Marble, and fcale it, which 
 without wetting it will, and fo to the Damage 
 of it, incorporate it into it felf ; therefore yoa 
 muft continually wet it whilft the Glafs is 
 wrought, otherwife, by the Marble flicking in 
 it, the Fail nefs end Beauty will be taken from 
 if , do thus as ofcen as you take the Metal out 
 of the Pot. 
 
 This fort of Glafs is very tender, that if it 
 be not cooled in the Furnace, and taken a lit- 
 tle at a time, and held > n the Irons, and the 
 Marble continually wetttd, it is next to an Im- 
 poffibility to work it, which caufe proceeds 
 from the calcined Lead, that renders it fo very 
 tender ; yet when well wrought it is an excel- 
 lent Glafs. 
 
 To make Glafs of Lead, of an Erne- - 
 
 raid Colour* 
 Take Twenty pound of the Frit of Pulve- 
 rine, Sixteen Pound of calcined Lead, fears'd 
 
 botb 
 
io8 Art's Maficr-Vitce, 
 
 fcotb Into Two Poudefs, firft by themfelveg, 
 and when well mixed together put them into 
 a Pot, not too hot, for Eight or Ten Hours, 
 and then they will be melted; fo caft them in- 
 to Water, and feparate 'he Lead and the Unftu- 
 ofity which calcined Xead and Pnlverine give 
 it, and there will enfue a bright mining Colour, 
 and in a few Hours it will run, and become ve- 
 ry clear, then pur into it Brafs, thrice calcined, 
 Six Ounces mixing with it a Penny Weight of 
 Cncut Martis, made with Vinegar, put in at Six 
 times. This mixture, always well mixing the 
 Glafs at leaft every Two or Three Minutes; 
 let it fettle an Hour, then mix, and take an EC- 
 fay thereof, when the Colour is apt ; then In- 
 corporate Eight Hours, and,work it into VefTels, 
 or other Devices. 
 
 Note, If you let it ftind in a Pot when it hath 
 received its Colour, till it hathconfumed all the 
 Dregs, and is perfeSly refined, it will be fa 
 like the natural Emerald, that tha Sight can 
 hardly diftinguifli one from another. 
 
 Another curious Greaj. 
 
 This is made in all Refpe&s as the foregoing 
 Green, with this Addition, tvix,. That there muft 
 here be Six Ounces of Caput Mortuum of Vltr'i- 
 stum Vcner'u, inflead of the Brafs id the other. 
 This is the rareft Green that can b<* made any 
 way whatfoever. 
 
 A Shy or Sea-Green, in Glafs cf Lead 
 
 Take Sixteen Pound of the Frit of ChryftaJ, 
 ten Pound of calcintd Lead .mix and Searfe them 
 
 well 
 
Art's MaHer-Viece lop 
 
 well together ; fee them in the Furnace Twelve 
 Hours, and the Stuff will be melted ; then Caft 
 both it and the Pot into Water, to feparare the 
 Lead ; then a fecond time let them ftand Eight 
 Hours in the Furnace ; again caft them into the 
 Water, feparat« the Lead, and again put them 
 into the Furnace, and in Eight Houis more the 
 Metal will be very clear ; rhen take or Ziffer, 
 well prepared, a quarter of an Ounce, calci- 
 ned Brafs Four Ounces, mix them well, and 
 put them in at Four Times, in F n ur equat 
 Quantities, and at the end of Two Hours mix 
 well the Glafs, and take an ifliiy of ic ; then 
 Jet ir ftand Ten Hours, in which time the Co- 
 lour will be well incorporated, the Glafs very 
 well perfected, and be fit to be wrought in any 
 Works, 
 
 A Topaz, Colour in Glafs of Lead. 
 
 Take Fifteen Pound of Chryftal Frit, Twelve 
 Pound of calcined Lead, mix and fcarfe them 
 well together, and fct them in the Furnace, 
 but not too hot; at the end of Eight Hours 
 puttrKtn in Water, to feparate the Lead from 
 the Por a.;d Giais ; repeat rhis twice, and add 
 half Glafs, of a Gold yellow Colour ; let them 
 incorporate and purifie, ar.d it will be of th« 
 Colour of an Oriental Top^z. 
 
 G.rvi. Colour in Glafs of Lea J. 
 
 Toke Twenty Pound of Chryfhl Frit, and 
 Sixteen Pound of calcined Lead, fearfa and 
 put them imo a Pot, add to them of Manganefe 
 
 Three 
 
no Art r s Mifter-Vtece. 
 
 Three Ounces, of ZafFer half an Ounce, both 
 well prepared, and let them ftand Ten Hours, 
 caft them into Water, and feparate the Lead, 
 then put them again into the Furnace, and lee 
 them purifie Ten Hours, fo mix them, and 
 make an EfTay, and when it is perfected, and 
 the Colour of a fair Garnet, work the Metal 
 into what Form you think moft convenient. 
 
 To make a Yellow Gold Colour in Glafs 
 cf Lead, 
 
 Take calcined Lead, and Chiyftal Frit, each 
 Sixteen Pound, mix and fsarfe them, then add 
 thrice calcined Brafs Six Ounce?, Crocus Mortis, 
 made with Vinegar, ■ Penny Weight, mix chem 
 well, and put them into a Furnace, and ier them 
 ftand Twelve Hours ; then caft them into Wa- 
 ter, to feparate the Lead, and put them again 
 into the Furnace, where let them ftand other 
 Twelve Hours, then the Metal will be clear ; 
 fo mix them, and take an ElTay ; and if it ap- 
 pear Green, put in a little more Crecus Mar (is, 
 which will take it away, and fo it will become 
 a fair yellow Gold Colour. 
 
 A Sapphire coloured Glafs of Lead. 
 
 Take of Chryftal Frit Fifteen Pound, cal- 
 cined Lead Twelve Pound, fearfe and well mix 
 them together, fo add to them a Penny Weight 
 of Manganefe, and Two ounces of Zaffer, both 
 well prepared , and let them ftand Twelve 
 Hours in the Furnace ; caft them into Water, 
 and feparate the Lead, Do the like a fecond 
 
 time, 
 
Jrt*s Mafler-T'tece. Ill 
 
 time, and when the Colour takes, it will be that 
 of Oriental Sapphire, very fair, with the mix- 
 ture of a double Violet Colour. 
 
 To Cckur Natural Chrjfial of a Piper-Co- 
 lour, without melting. 
 
 Take Chryftal that is of a good Water, fine 
 and clear, in feveial Pieces of different Bignefs, 
 yellow Orpimenr. and crude Mercury in Pouder, 
 of each Two Ounces , Sal-Armoniack one 
 Ounce ; let. the Three lad, in fine Pouder, be 
 well railed together, *nd put them in a Cruci- 
 ble that will well bear the Fire, and upon them 
 the Criryfbl in P.eccs, h cover the Crucible 
 with another, Mouth ro Mouth, and well luted, 
 and when they are Iry, fet them on Coals, 
 which k:r die by li' Ie an-' litrle 3 and being fiied, 
 foffer tlr-ai to flame of themfelves, and then 
 they will efore you muft do 
 
 it in a large Chimney, to avoid the Fumes, 
 whiel rrful, am? when the Fumes arc 
 
 evaporated, let rheChtyfral ftand till cold, by 
 the going of the Fire'of its own accord, 
 
 founiotethc and take cut the Chry- 
 
 fla), and thole o the top will be tinged with a 
 curious Yelfow, u Red Ruby and Balafs Colour, 
 with fair Spots, ar.d tfcoft at the bottom into 
 the Wavy Colour o a Viper and will endure 
 a good polifhing, and contain a curious Luftre. 
 
 A carious Lapis Lazuli Colour. 
 
 To do this, melt the mod tender white Chry- 
 ftal, and Lattirm jrj a Pot, and when well 
 
 melted 
 
1 12 Art's MafterrFiectt 
 
 racked, put in blue Smalt, by little and little, 
 and when the Colour comes well, let it ftand ii 
 the Fire Two Hours ; then make an EfTay of 
 ir, and when it is Proof, let it Hand Twelve 
 Hours ; mix and work it, and if the Metal rife, 
 put in a Piece of Leaf Gold, and it will allay k, 
 and fo you will have the natural Colour of La- 
 fii LhzuU. 
 
 To Colour Natural Chryftal like Ruhlss^ 
 Ba!afs t Topaz,) Giz,<iJole. ) Of at, &c. 
 
 To do this, take Orpiment of a yellow 
 Orange Tawny, well pouder'd Chryftalline, 
 white Arfnick, crude Antimony, and Sal-Ar- 
 moniack, of each Two Ounces, pouder and 
 mix them very well, and put them into a large 
 Crucible, and upon them Pieces of Chryftal, 
 of a fair Water, without any Spots. Lst the 
 Chryftal be fomewhat large, and fill the Cruci- 
 ble, and luce on it another, Mouth to Mouth, 
 making a Hole at the bottom of the upper- 
 moft, as big as a Straw, that the Air may get in 
 to evaporate the Fnmes. When the Lute is 
 dry, fetthem in the Coa-ls, fb that all the low- 
 ermoft, and the one half of theuppermoftmay 
 be buried in the Coals ; fo kindle the Fire by_ 
 Degrees, and do as fh preparing the other Chry" 
 ftal, to avoid the Fumes, which will be long ; 
 therefore keep a conftantFite, very ftrong, and 
 keep out all cold Air, leaft the Chryftal being 
 brittle, break, and fo when cooled, as the other, 
 the Colours will appear. 
 
An 's Mafter- Piece. I j j 
 
 To make Gl.i fi of heady aired as Blood* 
 
 To do this, put into a Pot Six P nrd of 
 Glafs of Lead, Ten plfcund of Chryital Frir, 
 and when purified, cafl rhtni into Water ; :hi n 
 return th< m into the Pot, and when they are 
 well refined, put in Five or Six Ounces of 
 Copper calcined, to a red Pouder , nd let 
 rhem boil up and refine ; after that p.it in a 
 little red Tartar in Pouder, and Ice the Metal 
 boil up again, and well incorporate, and ukc 
 an Eflay, and if the Colour be not come up to 
 a height, put it again to Aneal, till it ccmes to 
 its Colour. 
 
 To recover the faded Colour of natu- 
 ral Ttirtjuois. 
 
 Put it into a Glafs, and pour on it the Oil 
 of Sweet- Almonds, keep it warm, on tempe- 
 rate Albes, and in Two Days the natural Co- 
 lour will return very beautiful. 
 
 To make Vitriolum Veneris, u fad in Co. 
 louring Glafs, and in feme ¥ laces menti 
 cned. 
 
 Set covered Crucibles in an open Wind-Fur- 
 nace, with burning Coals; let them (land Two. 
 Hours, then fuffcr the Furnace to cool of it 
 felf, fo take out the Crucibles, and you will 
 find the Copper you have put in, calcined to a 
 blackifli, or dark Colour, or obfeure Purple, 
 which poudei ed and well fearfed, put into an 
 Earthen VeflH that will hold the Fire ; fet 
 
 that 
 
XJ4 Art's Matter -Piece. 
 
 that in an open Wind Furnace on crofs Iron 
 Bars fill the Pans with lighted Coals, put in 
 the calcined Copper, adding to every Pound 
 Weight Six Ounces ef B'imftone, poudcred, 
 and when the Brimftone begins to flame, keep 
 it continually ftirrfrig, till the Brimftone be 
 confumed, and the Smoak ceafe ; then take ft 
 out hot ; do this by renewing three times, and 
 you will have a curious Pouder, fie for your 
 Purpofe, for being infufed in Water ,jn a Retort 
 for many Hour", snd well luted : The curious 
 and fineft fetdi.ig, feparated, is excellent to mix 
 when dry with ZfFcr, and put to Chryftal Frit, 
 makes a marvellous Sea Green, and in many 
 other Cafes, an Azure or curious Sky-Colour. 
 
 CHAP. in. 
 
 To make carious Enamels of divers Colour /, 
 after the heft manner ', for Gold and Sil- 
 ver Works y and other Metals. To fix 
 Sulphur y extract Animum Sacurni, 
 
 The Ground-Work of Enamels. 
 
 TAke Thirty Pound of fine Lead, Thirty 
 three Pound of fine Tin, fearfe them 
 when they are well calcined in a Kiln, boil this 
 Calx a little in clean Water, in Earthen VefTels, 
 and when you take it off, decant the Water, 
 by Inclination,*and in it will be the finer part or 
 
 the 
 
Art's Ma(ter-Viea. u% 
 
 the Calx ; pour frefh Wafer on the Remainder, 
 boil and ikcm" it as before, and fo do as long 
 as the Water emir 'jfF any Calx, and then te- 
 C'lcine that which remains Grofs, and draw off 
 the more fu' >p\ part of ir, as before ; after that 
 evaporate the V/^ter that carried off the finer 
 Calx over a gentle Fire, that the Calx may noc 
 fly out with it, and be wafted, but remain in 
 the bottom. Then r*.ke Chryflal Frit, made 
 with Tarfo, finely ground, and of this Calx, 
 each of them F;fty -Pound, white Salt of Tar- 
 tar Eight Ounces, ponder, Searfe, and well mix 
 them ; then put the Compofition into a new 
 Earthen Pot, giving it a Fire for Ten Hours, 
 then pouder it, and keep it clofe covered in a 
 dry Place, and of thefs Materials all the Ground 
 of Enamels are made, of what Colour foever, 
 
 Materials (r Uieiijils for this Work. 
 
 In this curious Work, whick is in high Efleem, 
 and very profitable, it will not be amifs to fee 
 down the Materials or Utenfils to be ufed, and 
 therefore firft obferve, that the Pot wherein 
 you make the Enamels, rauft be well glazed with 
 white Glafv, and that it bear the Fire well. 
 
 2. Incorporate and well mix the Stuff, and 
 Colour of the Enamels. 
 
 3 When it comes to be refined, fo that the 
 Colour proves good, and all well incorporated, 
 take it off from the Fire with a pair of Tongues 
 for the Gold fmith's Ufe. 
 
 The 
 
ii 6 Art'i Mafhr-Ti'ce. 
 
 The Way r; making E&aweL 
 
 Tb make Enamel, pouler, fearfe , and grind 
 well the Colours ; having mixed them one with 
 another, as the Occafion requires, then with the 
 Stuff of the Enamel, fo fee them in Pots in the 
 Furnace, and being melted and well incorpora- 
 ted, caft them into Water, and being dry, fet 
 rhem again in the Furnace to melt, which will 
 be foon efrl'&ed, fo make an Eflay or Proof, and 
 if the Colour be too high, take cut fome of it, 
 and add more of the Stuff of the Enamel, and 
 if too light, add more of the Colour, till you 
 bring it to a due Proportion. 
 
 To make white Enamel. 
 
 Take Six Pound of the Stuff for Enamel, 
 48 Giains of Manganefe, caft it thrice into Wa- 
 ter, and being refined, meltir, and it will pro- 
 duce a eurious white Enamel. 
 
 Turquch coloured Enamel. 
 
 Take Six Pound of the Stuff of Enamel, melt, 
 refine, and caft it into Water, then again fet it 
 in the Furnace, and when it is melted, and well 
 refined, put in Three Ounces of calcined Brafs, 
 at thrice, N'.nerv fixG>sins of prepared Ziffer, 
 and Forty Eight of Manganefe, likewife prepa- 
 red; mix thefe well every time, and Itt them 
 incorporate ; make a Proof with your Eye, at 
 to the Colour, and when you find it Right, 
 take it out, and keep it for ufe. 
 
 A 
 
Arts Mafier-Tiece. \\n 
 
 A Green Enamel 
 
 Take Four Pound of the Stuff for Enamels, 
 place it in the Furnace, and in Ten or Twelve 
 Hours it will be melted and refined, fo caft it 
 into Water, and place it again in the Furnace, 
 in its own Pot, and being refined, put in Two 
 Ounces of Brafs, thrice calcined, mixed with 
 Two Ounces of Scales of Iron, well ground, 
 put thefe in at three times, mixing and incor- 
 porating them well every time, and fo work it 
 up to a pure Colour, and take it from the Fire, 
 
 'fo make Violet- coloured EnamX 
 
 Take Six Pound of the fineft Enamel Stuff, 
 Three Ounces of Maganefe, wtll prepared, 
 Forty Eight Grains of thrice calcined Brafs, 
 mix the Pouders very well together, and then 
 do the like with the Enamel Stuff; put them in- 
 to the Furnace, caft them into Water, and be- 
 ing dry, put them again into the Furnace, and 
 when the Stuff is refined and well coloured, 
 make it up for ufe. 
 
 To nuke a Shy Colour Enamel. 
 
 Take Few Pound of Enamel Stuff, Brafs of 
 ' Sky-Co!cur, and Sea-Green, each Two Ounces, 
 * prepared Z>ffer Forty Eight Grains, and mix 
 
 them well ; then in all things clfe ufe them as 
 
 the former. 
 
 To 
 
ll8 Arfs Matter-Piece. 
 
 To make Purplijl) Enamel. 
 
 Take Six Pound of the Stuff for Enamels, 
 Two Ounces of Manean.efe prepared, of Brafs, 
 thrice calcined, Six O.mces, mix them very 
 well together, fet thetn in the Furnace, and in 
 all things elfe ufe or order them as ift other 
 Enamels. 
 
 To make G !d Cchur, or Yellow Enamel. 
 
 To make this, take Six Pound of Enamel 
 Stuff Three Ounces of Tartar, Seventy Two 
 Grains of Manpanefe prepared, grind and mix 
 the Pouders well together, and after that, with 
 the Stuff of the Enamel, and melt and order 
 them as other Enamels, and it will be of a fair 
 Golden Yellow, proper to Enamel on Gold ; 
 but it will not (hew fo well there, unlefs it be 
 worked on with other Enamels, that may make 
 apleafing Variety of Colours. 
 
 A Bljck Enamel, to make it. 
 
 Take Four Pound of the Enamel Stuff, 
 Manganefe ?nd Zaffer prepared,each Two Oun- 
 ces, mix them well together, and then incorpo- 
 rate them well with the Stuff; put the Pot, 
 with thefe Materials, into the Furnace; let 
 the Pot be large, and when they are melted and 
 refined, caff them into the Water ; rhen put 
 them into <h» Furnace again, and they will 
 quickly refine, and become of a curious Vel- 
 vet-Black. 
 
 jinother 
 
Art's Mafler-Tiece, Uj 
 
 Anether curious Black Enamel. 
 
 Take Four Pound of the Staff of Tartar, 
 Four Ounces, well prepared Manganefe Two 
 Ounces , mix and grind them well , and 
 then mix them well with the Enamel StuffJ 
 and in melting and refining, ufe them as other 
 Enamels. 
 
 A Red Enamnl. 
 
 Take of Enamel Stuff Four Pound, put to 
 h Two Ounces cf Manganefe prepared ; mix 
 them well, and fet them in the Furnace, in a 
 large Pot, anH being melted, and refined, caft 
 ir in Water, 'melt, refine, &c. again. 
 
 To wake an Azure Enamel. 
 
 Take Four Pound of Enamel Stuff, prepared 
 Zaffer T**o Ounces, mix with it at firft, of 
 thrice calcined Brafs, Forty eight Grains, and 
 when the Pcuders are well mixed, mix them 
 with the Stuff, and fo order rhem in melting 
 and purifying, as other Enamels, the melting, 
 &e. being all one in every cafe. 
 
 Another cwlous Green Enamel. 
 
 Take Six Pound of Stuff, mix with it Three 
 Ounces of Ferretto of :;pam. well ground, and 
 Forty eight Grains of Crocus Martis, and being 
 well mixed, melt and purifie .them as the for- 
 mer Enamels. 
 
 Anotbtr 
 
I a o Art's Mafter- Tit ce* 
 
 Another curious Green Enamel. 
 
 Take Four Pound of Enamel SrufF, refine ic 
 well in a Pot, in the Furnace, then caft it into 
 Water, and put ic into the Pot and Furnace a- 
 gain, fo refine it ; than put in ar Three times 
 thrice calcined Brafs, Two Ounces of Crocus 
 Martis made wi*h Vinegar, Forty eight Grains; 
 then melt and refine them again, with incorpo- 
 rating the Pouders. 
 
 Another Black Enamel. 
 
 Take Six Pound of Enamel StrifF ; prepared 
 Zaffer, Crocus Martis, made with Vinegar, and 
 of Ferretto of Spain, each Two Ounces, grind 
 and mix the Pouders well together, and then 
 incorporate them with the Stuff, and order them 
 in the Fire and Water, according to the ufual 
 Rule. 
 
 A fair Red to Enamel Gold. 
 
 Take Chr> ftal Frit, made of Salt of Pulve- 
 rine. Ten Pound, white Tarfo, finely ground, 
 Eight Pound, make a fubfhntial Stuff with this 
 Frit and Water, rowl it into thin Wafers, put 
 them info an Earthen Pan, into a little Furnace, 
 made in the Fafhion of a Calcar, that they may 
 be calcined about Ten Hours with a good Fire, 
 and for Defefl: thereof, put them in the Fur- 
 nace, near the Occltio, Three or Four Days, 
 till they be well Calcined ; take prepared calci- 
 ned Lead, and Tin, and of Tartar W.nc cal- 
 cined; each Two Pound, mix thefe well toge- 
 ther ; 
 
'Arfs Mafter-Viece. xl x 
 
 i ther; put them in a well glazed Pot, glazed 
 with white Glafs, and when melted and prety 
 well refined, cart the Metal into Water ; fo 
 melt and refine it again, then put in the red 
 Pouder of calcined Copper 1 2 Ounces, and 
 when the Colour is well purified, add Crocus 
 Martis, made with Aquafortis, put it in by de- 
 grees, and give it leave to fettle Six Hours. 
 make a Proof to fee if the Colour is good, if 
 not heighten it with more Crocus Martis. 
 
 To fix Sulphur for this Work. 
 
 Boil the Flour of Brimftone an Hour in 
 common Oil, and being taken off the Fire, caft 
 upon it ftrong Vinegar, and the Sulphur of a 
 fudden will fink to the bottom, and the Oil will 
 be on the top of the Vinegar , then empty the 
 Oil and Vinegar; then put frefh Oil on rhe 
 Sulphur, repeat this thrice, and then you will 
 have a fixed Sulpla- proper for the Work. 
 
 To extract Anima Saturni ufeful in 
 Enamel. 
 
 Put well ground Litharge into an earthen 
 glazed pan, pour diftilled Vinegar upon it, let 
 it be Four Fingers above it, and let it (land till 
 the Vinegar is of a milky Colour ; then decant 
 it off, and put frefh Vinegar upon the Litharge; 
 do this till the Vinegar becomes no more co- 
 loured, then let the coloured Vinegar ftand in 
 glazed Pans, that the milky Subftance of the 
 Litharge may fink to the bottom ; then decant 
 off the clear Vinegar, and the remaining milky 
 F Subftance 
 
122 ArPs MaHer-Tiece. 
 
 Subftance is the Ammo. Saturni : And if in this 
 cafe, the white Stuff precipitate not well, caft 
 upon it cold Water, which ufually makes it fall 
 to the bottom, and when it do's not precipitate, 
 evaporate the Water and Vinegar. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 The Art of making Calcedony like Jafper % 
 Agates, and other had -Stones, 7vith 
 their Clouds , Shadows, Spots , Wave- 
 tugs, and many other curious Embelltjh- 
 ments \ and to prepare the Materials ufe- 
 ful in the Work. 
 
 TO make curious Waveings , and other 
 Mixtures of Colours that furpafs the 
 Workings of Nature in Calcedony, &c I (hall 
 lay down fuch perfect Rules as have noc hither- 
 to been diftin&ly known but to a very few : 
 And, 
 
 i. Put Two Pound of Aqua-fortis into a glafs 
 Body, not very large but with a Jong Neck, 
 and Four Ounces of fine Silver, in fine final! 
 Pieces very thin, fet them in warm Water or 
 near the Fire ; and as foon as the Aqua-ftrtit 
 heats, ic will work and diflolve the Silver ; then 
 take a Pound of Aquafortis, and in it diflolve 
 Six Ounces of Quick- filver, mix thefe Two 
 Waters together in a greater Body, and pour 
 them on Six Ounces of Sal- Armtniack : Let it 
 difTolve at a gentle heat, then put into 'the Glafs, 
 
 Old 
 
Art's Alifer-Viece. \ ii 
 
 One Ounce of Z>f&r, and half an Ounce of 
 Manganefe , all well prepar'd ; alio half an 
 Ounce of Ferretto of Spain , and a quarter of 
 an Ounce of Crocus M*riis< calcined with Brim- 
 ftone ; alfo thrice calcined Copper, blue Smalt, 
 and red Lead, each half an Ounce, let them be 
 finely poudered and put one after another into 
 the Body, which ftir fo gently, that the Fortis 
 may be incorporated with them , and for Ten 
 Days keep the Body clofe ftoped, every Day 
 Making it divers times ; and fo being well 
 opened, put it into a Furnace on Sand, and 
 make fuch a temperate Hear, that in Twenty 
 four Hours all the Aquafortis may be evapora- 
 ted ; then in the bottom there will remain a 
 Lion Colour, which being reduced to fine Pou- 
 der, keep it in a ftrong glafs Veflcl. 
 
 When you prepare to make a Calcedony, pat 
 into a Pot broken Chryftal made into a clear 
 Metal, and white Glafs and Chryftalline which 
 has been ufed, for with fuch Frit as has not been 
 wrought it cannot be made ; for the Colours 
 flick not to it, but are confumed by the Frie. 
 To every Pot of Twenty Pound of Glafs, feu 
 muft put Two, or Two Ounces and a half of 
 this Pouder, and fometimes Three Ounces, put 
 it in at thrice, that it may the better mix and 
 imbody ; and in this doing, certain blue Fumes 
 arife, and when it mixes let your Glafs ftand r 
 bout an Hour , then put in another Mixture 
 and let it ftand Twenty four Hours, fo it will 
 be well mixed. 
 
 This done, Eflay it, and it will have a yel- 
 
 lowifh Azure Colour ; this Proof many times 
 
 returned into the Furnace, and taken when ic 
 
 F 2 begins 
 
1*4 'AvPt Maftir-Vttct* 
 
 begins to cool, will fhew divers wavey and very 
 fai; Colours : After this take Eight Ounces of 
 Tartar, Sooc of the Chimney well vertified, 
 Crocus Martis calcined vvirh Brimftone half an 
 Ounce, put it on by degrees, mixed in fine 
 Pouder ; at Six times, taking a little Intervail 
 between each putting in, mixing it with the 
 Glafs, fo that it may be well incorpnrjted, and 
 when all the Pouder is in, let the Metal boil 
 and purifie Twenty four Hours : Make of it a 
 little Glafs Body, which put in the Furnace 
 many times, then try if it be enough, and there 
 be blue Toys on the outfide , Sea-green, Red, 
 Yellow, and all Colours with Toys; and that it 
 is illuftrated with W>ves, fuch as Calcedony, 
 Jafpers, or oriental Agates have ; and that ro the 
 Sight, the Body ktpt within, appears red as 
 Fire. 
 
 When this Rodv is made and perfected, you 
 may work it into V< dels, aways variegated and 
 new marie, for they do not rife well ; but he 
 that wo:ks it muft obferve to pinch off well the 
 Glafs, and aneal it (efficiently, that it may male j 
 Waves and Toys of the fairetr Colour; and 
 afterwards you may work it at the Wheel, for 
 it takes Polifliing and a very fine Luftre as 
 Jewels. 
 
 If it happens, that the Colour fades, and the 
 Glafs becomes tranfparent, then leave off work. 
 ing, and put to it new Tartar calcined, Soct 
 andOocwj Martis \ for thus, as before, it takes a 
 Body and Opaconfnefs , and the Colour by that" 
 means will appear ; fo let it purifie many Hour< 
 that as it is ufual, the Pouder newly put in, may] 
 be incorporated, then work it. 
 
Arfs Mafier-Piece. 125 
 
 [Another curious way to ?nake Cdcedony^ &c. 
 
 Diflblve Three Ounces of fine Silver in a 
 Pound of Aquafortis, cut fmai] and thin, in a 
 glafs Body, and fo fee it afide. 
 
 In the next place, put a Pound of Aquafortis 
 in another Glafs, and diflblve in it Five Ounces 
 of well purified Mercury, and clofe the Body 
 well. 
 
 Put another Pound of Aqtia-frtis into an 
 other little Glafs, wherein is diflblv'd Two Oun- 
 ces of Sal Armoniack, then put in Crocus Martis 
 made with Aqua fortis, Ferretro of Spain, Cop- 
 per calcined info red Pouder, and Brafs calci- 
 ned with Sulphur, of each half an Ounce ; grind 
 and well pouder thefe Materials by themfelves, 
 and put them in one by one into the Body by 
 degrees with leilure, becaufs they all of them 
 arife much. 
 
 In another little glafs Body, let there be a 
 Pound of Aqua fortis difTolve in it, an Ounce of 
 Sal Armoniack Vitriol purified, crude Antimony 
 poudered, Azure, or blue Smalts of each half 
 an Ounce, red Lead an Ounce , grind them 
 well and (at them by in a Veflil. 
 
 In another glafs Body, diflblve in a Pound 
 of Aqua-fort is, Two Ounces of Sal- Armoniack, 
 add an Ounce of prepared Zaffer, and a quarter 
 of an Ounce of prepared Manganefe; ofGinna- 
 ber an Ounce, and half an Ounce of thrice 
 calcined Copper, pur them warily in, well pou- 
 dered, every one by its feJf, that you may. 
 avoid the Fumes that will arife. 
 
 F i Ira. 
 
Atfi MiiL.r-Vit.ee. 
 
 In anocher Glafs pat Two Ounces of Sa!-sir~ 
 wcniack. tu a Pound of /qua-fortts, then add 
 Verdigreefe, Cerufe, red Lake, and Scales of 
 Icon, each half an Ounce, let all tliefe Bodies 
 ftand Twelve Diys, Ihaking every one of them 
 Six timts every Day , fo the Foriis will penetrate 
 and fubtijiz-s the Metal and Ingredients, the 
 better to communicate the Tincture of the Co- 
 lours to the Glafs. 
 
 When this Work is thus far brought to pafs, 
 take a great glafs Body well luted at the bottom, 
 and empty into it all the Materials of the other 
 little Bodies by degrees, that they may not make 
 the glafs crack or run out in this great Body ; 
 fo mix the Waters, that the Materials may be 
 well incorporated, fo fet it in the Afhes at a 
 very gentle Heat, for Two much Heat waftes 
 the Pouders ; fo that the Forth being evapora- 
 ted, there will remain a redifli Ponder at the 
 bottom, which keep clofe in a glafs VefTel for 
 VCe. 
 
 When you defign to ufe it, put it into the 
 Metal of broken pieces of Glafs that have been 
 ufed, doing now as in the former, giving the 
 Metal the fame quantity of Time, and ufe the 
 like difhnce ; then add the Body of burnt Tar- 
 tar, Soot of the Chimney vitrified, and Crocus 
 Martis made with Vinegar, fufferthem then to 
 fettle Twenty four Hours, and work it in all 
 refpefts as the former , and it will produce 
 Wonders. 
 
 iv 
 
Artfs Mafter-Ticce. il"J 
 
 To make diver i Things u ft fid in this Work* 
 and fir ft to furifie Vitriol tomjke (!rong> 
 Aqua-fortis. 
 
 To do this, take the beft Vitriol, and dif- 
 folve ic in. common warm Water, let it ftand 
 Three Days till it is impregnated with Salt ; fo 
 filter and evaporate it in glafs Bodies till Two 
 Thirds of the Water is confumed ; put the re* 
 mainder into earthen glazed VefTsIs, fet them 
 Twelve Hours in a cold Place, and the Vitriol 
 will fhoot inro pointed Pieces, appearing like 
 natural Chryftal of a fair Emerald Colour. Lee 
 this Vitriol be diflblved again, do as before, and 
 thrice repeat it at each difTolving; there will 
 remain at the bottom a yellowifh Subftance, 
 which is unprofitable Sulphur, and mufr be 
 removed. 
 
 At the third time you will find the Vitritl fo 
 purified, that it will make a ftrong Aqua-fortify 
 particularly if the Nitre be well refined. 
 
 A good way to burn Tartar. 
 
 Take Tartar of" red Wine, in great Pieces fulJ 
 of Spots, put it into new earthen Pots , let it 
 burn till it fmoaks no more, in a pretty good 
 Fire, and being calcined, and in Lumps of pur- 
 plifh Colour, it is well calcined, and prepared 
 for ufe. 
 
 Aqua-Regis , how to make it for this Work 
 
 To every Pound of Aqua-fortis, made as be- 
 fore, put into a glafs Body, Two Ounces of S»l- 
 F 4, Armoniack- 
 
) 2 8 Art's Mafier. Tkce. 
 
 Armmiailt well poudered, fet ir in an earthen 
 Vcifcl of warm Water, often ftiring the Aqua- 
 fortis which having difTolved the Jrmoniack, 
 wjrl be tinged with a yellow Colour, then put 
 ii more Sal- Jrmoniack whilft the Fortis will dif- 
 iolve no more ; then let it have a little ferling, 
 and when it is- clear decant it off very leifurely, 
 and the unprofitable Drofs of the jrmoniack 
 will remain in the bottom and this Aqaa-regit 
 will be of force fufficient to diflblve Gold and 
 other Metals, but it will not do the like by 
 Silver. 
 
 CHAP. IV, ' 
 
 To prepare Materials, and make artificial 
 precious Stones in Imitation of tbs true 
 ones \ as Top z^ Emeralds, Chryjolytes , 
 Garnet, and m her oriental Stones of a 
 very cur tats Lull re , differing .from the 
 true ones only in Hardnefs, as being of 
 toiual Beauty ; and to colour Balls or 
 Globes of Glafs ivithivfule^ &C. 
 
 The Ground of this Work in preparing 
 natural Chr*fiat, 
 
 TAkethe cleareft Cforyfhl you can get, free 
 from Spots, in Pieces ; put the Pieces in 
 Crucibles, covered at the top, and fct thern in hot 
 
 burning 
 
'Art's MaJter-TitcE. 129 
 
 burning Coals, and when thoroughly heated, 
 put them into a large Pan of cold Water, and 
 being cold, dry and recalcine it, and throw it 
 into Water; and fo dofucceffively twelve times,, 
 keeping all Afhes and Filch out of the Crucible, 
 and being fufficiendy calcined, grind it to an 
 impalpable Pouder, as fine as Meal, en a Por- 
 phyry Stone, with a Muller of the fame; 
 grind about a Spoonful at a time, and often 
 tearfe ir, till no roughnefs remains to be felt in 
 the Pouder, lead it make the Work dirty or 
 imperfect ; and this is the Ground Work to mix 
 with all Colours, for making artificial Jewels of 
 Pafte, as will appear hereafter. 
 
 Mat trials ujeftil in this Work, affd 
 ether Matters. 
 
 Obferve to lute well the Pdts wherein the 
 Chryfhl is calcined, and the Path's are baked, 
 with good dry Lure, before you either calcine 
 or bake ; and before to rake Pots that will well 
 endure the Fire, and in al] Refpe&s keep a 
 juft Proportion in the Dofe of the Ingredients 
 
 Always obferve, before you bake the Ingre- 
 dients, to mix them very well, and if it fail to 
 be thoroughly baked at firft, Jjou muft do it a- 
 i'.ain in a Potter's Furnace; and break not the 
 Po: rill it is fufficiently done, for if you do, it 
 wiJl be full of Blifters, and foul. 
 
 Obferve always to leave a Vacancy of aFii.» 
 ger's thicknefs on the top of the Pot, particu- 
 larly where it is held to fwell much, or that you 
 mull put it in with Care and Leifure, to pre- 
 vent the Materials running into the Fire, or if 
 F 5 it 
 
1 3 o Art r s M'afler-Tiece. 
 
 it ftick to the Cover, the Colour will be foul. 
 Having giv en you thefe Rules or Directions, I 
 now proceed to the making feveral forts of arti- 
 ficial Jewels. 
 
 To imitate Tcpaz- 
 
 Take two Ounces of prepared Chryftal, fe- 
 ven Ounces of the ordinary Minium, mix and 
 bake them according to Art, for a marvellous 
 eriental Topaz Colour, with which you may 
 Work what Works you pleafe. 
 
 A fair "Emerald imitated. 
 
 Take 'two Ounces of prepared Chryftal, fix 
 Ounces of ordinary Minium, mix thefe extrcam 
 well together, adding eighty Grains of fine Vcr- 
 digreace, well ground, mix and bake them to 
 work a fair Emerald. 
 
 To make a deep Emerald Colour. 
 
 To do this, take two Ounces of prepared 
 Chryftal, [fix Ounces and a half of common 
 xed Lead, mix them/and add of Verdigreace 
 about three Penny Weight, and thirteen Grains 
 of Crocus Mart is, made with Vinegar ten Grains, 
 mix them exceeding well together, and work it 
 fie for baking ; and to fee when this, or other 
 coloured Paftes are baked enough, purified and 
 tranfparent, take off only the Cover, made of 
 Lute, and if it befo to the bottom ic is enough, 
 if nor, you muft prefently relute, and bake it 
 again, not breaking the Pot, for the Reafons 
 before menrion'd, and let the Fire be continued 
 
 with 
 
Art^s Mafter-^iece* \%\ 
 
 with dry Wood twenty four Hours, and fa 
 you will have a marvellous Colour for fmall 
 Works, and to be fct in Gold. 
 
 But obfcrve this Emerald pafte muft have a 
 more than ordinary baking to confutne the 
 Imperfeftion the Lead brings upon it; and 
 though it is fomewhat brittle, it is excellent' 
 fhining and tranfparent. 
 
 To imitate Oriental Chrjfolytes . 
 
 Take two Ounces of Chry ftal prepared, and 
 eight £of ordinary Minium, and when they are 
 well mixed, put to them twelve Grains of Cro- 
 cus Mart is , made with Vinegar, bake it more 
 than ordinary, and it will come out very fair. 
 
 A Sky and Violet coloured Taste* 
 
 Take prepared Chry ftal two Ounces, and 
 four Ounces of ordinary Minium, ;dd four 
 Grains of fine blue Smalt, well mix them toge- 
 ther, and when well baked,, there will be a cu- 
 rious Violet, and fair Sky-Colour. 
 
 Sapphires to imitate in Vafie. 
 
 Take fix Ounces of ordinary Minium, and 
 two of Chryftal prepared, and when they ate 
 well mixed, add five Grains of prepared ZafFcr, 
 and the like of Manganefe ; mix and bake the 
 Pafte well, and it will produce a curious Sap« 
 phire*Golour b 
 
 The 
 
i$2 AiiPs Ahfter-Ticce. 
 
 To imitate Garnet in Tafte. 
 
 To do this, take fix Ounces of ordinary Mi- 
 nium, two of prepared Chryftal ; when thefe 
 are well mixed, put lixfeen Grains of prepared 
 Manganefe, and three Grains of prepared Zaf- 
 fer, mix the Pafte well, and when it is baked, 
 it imitates a fair Garnet. 
 
 A way to make Vafte to imitate all Sorts of 
 Precious Stones. 
 
 To do this, takeCerufe, or white Lead, giind 
 it as fine as fine Wheat Flour, fo put it fn 
 a great Glafs Body, and put to it as much good 
 Vinegar as will cover it, four Fingers upward, 
 putting it in by little and little, till the Fury 
 andNoifeof the boilingand f welling of it is over, 
 fo fet it on a hot Furnace in Sand, that the 8th. 
 pare of the Vinegar may evaporate, fo take ic 
 from the Fire, and letting the Body cool, de- 
 cant it leifurely, the Vinegar being fufficiently 
 coloured and impregnated with Salt, put it a- 
 fide in a Glafs Veflel, and pour frefli Vinegar 
 on the remaining Lead; let this Vinegar be di- 
 ftilled, and decant it as before. Do this till all 
 the Sail is contracted from the Lead, and that 
 will appear when the Vinegar will take no fur- 
 ther Colour, nor has any more Tafte of Sweet- 
 nefs, which generaHy happens after the fixth 
 time of decanting. 
 
 The Work being thus far proceeded in, filter 
 the coloured Vinegars, when mixed together, 
 and evaporate and dry them in a Glafs Body, 
 
 and 
 
Art's Mafier-Viecc. 13-5 
 
 «nd at the bottom you will find the Salt of the 
 Cerufe of a white Colour. 
 
 Set this in a Glafs Body, in Sind, being well 
 luted from the Neck downwards, but let the 
 Mouth be open, and the Heat of the Furnace 
 contra&ed for twenty four Hours ; then take 
 out the Salt, and if it be yellow, and not come 
 to a Red, it muft fland twenty four Hours lon- 
 ger in the Fire, and when it is of the Colour of 
 Cinabar, it is enough prepared ; then make fuch 
 a Fire as may not melt it, for if it melt, your 
 Labour is loft. 
 
 Pour diftilled Vinegar on this calcined Lead, 
 repeating, as before, till you hare extracted all 
 the Salt from it, and then feparate theTerre- 
 ftreity in part, or in the whole, and keep this 
 coloured Vinegar, in glazed Earthen Pans, fix 
 Days, that fo all the Settling and Imperfection 
 may fink to the bottom ; then put the feveral 
 Vinegais into a Glafs Body, and cover it, and 
 after fometime Handing, a white Salt of Lead 
 will be at the bottom, fo filter it, that the grofT- 
 er and unprofitable part may remain behind, 
 and cover the Vinegar ira a Glafs Body, and at 
 the bottom you will have a white Salt , as 
 fweet as Sugar, which you muft dry well, and 
 then it being diflblved in common fair Water, 
 let it ftand in earthen glazed Pans,fix Days j then 
 take away the Sediment,andfilrer and evaporate 
 as before, and there will remain a Salt, as white 
 as Snow. Do this thrice in the fame manner, 
 and being thus prepared, it is known by the 
 Name of Zascharum Saturni, which put into a 
 GlafsBc dy,inSand,and fetitin aFurnace at a tem- 
 perate Heat for feveral Days, and when calcined, 
 
 ic 
 
134 Art's Mafter-Vitce. 
 
 it will appear of a Colour redder by far than 
 Cinabar, and as fubtil and impalpable as the fi- 
 neft fearfed Flour, and Co it is called the true 
 Sulphur of Saturn, purified from all Terreftreity. 
 When you would make Pafte for Sapphires, 
 Emeralds, Topaz, Garnet, Chryfolytes, Sky, 
 or any different Colour, take the fame Materi- 
 als, Quantities and Colours, as in the foregoing 
 Receipts, except that inftead of ordinary red 
 Lead, where that occurs in any of them, you 
 ihall take Sulphur Saturnl, working in every 
 thing as before directed, and fo you fhall imi» 
 tate Jewels of marvellous Beauty, which far 
 furpafs any yet mentioned , where ordinary 
 red Lead is an Ingredient. 
 
 Direclions how to colour Balls of Glafs, or 
 other white Glafs within of marvellous 
 fair Colours. 
 
 Take any Orbicular Glafs that has a cavity 
 within, and feafon it in warm Water, after that 
 infufe Izing-Glafs two Days in fair Water; 
 then put the Infufion into a white Pan, boil it 
 till all be well tempered, then take it off, and 
 when it is warm, put it into a Ball of Glafs, 
 &e. Turn the Glafs about, that it may wet 
 and fatten well every where within the Glafs, 
 fo let the Moifture drain ; then with a hollow 
 Tube or Pipe, blow finely poudered red Lead 
 into it in all Parts, that it may mn on the Moi- 
 fture, and wave up and down; after, blue 
 Smalt, and then Pouder of Verdigreace, all 
 v ery fine, and then Lake well ground, fo that 
 
 they 
 
Art's Ma fin '"Piece. 13 
 
 they may v wave and intermix to make a curious 
 Colour, and when they ftick well, takeGeflb, 
 well poudered, put a good Quantity of it in- 
 to the Ball, and fuddenly turn it about ; then 
 put out the Superfluity, and the infide being 
 dry, many curious Colours will appear. 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 To extract Lake, and other curious Colours, 
 from Flowers, Herbs, Seeds, and other 
 things, for Painting, Limning, &C. 
 
 To extract Lake from red Rofes, wild Pop- 
 pics, red Violet s,Flower-de -Luce, Orange, 
 Borage, Carnation, or other Flowers. 
 
 TO do this, take what quantity you will of 
 the Leaves of the Flowers, which being 
 bruifed on a Leafe of white Paper, tinges it 
 with its Colour, you may allure your felf 
 of Succefs, but thofe Herbs or Flowers that do 
 not Co, are not ferviceable in this way. 
 
 This Experiment being made, put ordinary 
 jfyua vit<e into a Glafs Body, the Head as large 
 as may be, and in the top put the Leaves of 
 fuch Herbs and Flowers from which you would 
 draw a Tin&ure ; then lute the joints of the 
 Head, and fit a Receiver to it, fo give it a tempe- 
 rate Hear, that the more fubtil part of the a- 
 qua vita, afcending to the Head , and falling 
 on the Flowers, may fuck out the TinQure, 
 fuffering it to do fo,fo long as it comes coloured ; 
 
 after 
 
y$6 Art J Mafter'Tiece. 
 
 after that, diftil the coloured slqua vita- in a 
 Glafs Veflel, which will be overwhite at its 
 coming forth, and is fit for Ufe in this nature 
 at other times, and then the Tinttute remaining 
 at the bottom, rnuft not be over dried> but 
 care taken that it may be moderately done, and 
 fo you may have the Tin&ure of curious Lake 
 from all Flowers and Herbs fie for Limning; 
 and other beautiful Works. 
 
 To Tellow Lake 3 extmtied from Broom* 
 Biids } or other yellow Flowers that have 
 a good TinBure another way. 
 
 Make a Lee of Lime, and Barrilla tolerably. 
 ftrong, and in it, over a gencle Fire, boil freftx 
 Broom Flowers, having their full Sap or Sub- 
 ftance in them. Order it fo, that the Lee may 
 draw to it all the Tincture of the Flowers, 
 which will be known by their turning White, 
 the Lee being then as Yellow as Trebean Wine ; 
 after that, take ou" the Flowers, and put the 
 Lee into glazed Earthen Difh.es, let it at a mo- 
 derate Heat; after that, lei it boil by Degrees, 
 and put to it fo much Roach Allom as may well 
 diffolve with the Fire. When it is well ordered, 
 put the Lea into Veff:Is of fair Water, and the 
 Yellownefs will fettle at the bottom ; fo when, 
 the Settlement u.jaadr, decant off the Wafer, 
 and pour on that which is ficflb, and when the 
 Tinfture is funk, order it a;j the former. Do 
 this till the Salt of the Lee is quite taken out, 
 as alfo the Tafte of the Allom, aftd then the 
 Tincture of the Colour will be the fairer, and 
 
 du 
 
Art's Mafier -Piece. 137 
 
 do fo till the Water runs out fweef, without 
 any Saltnefs, with the fame Tafte as when it 
 was put in, and then at the bottom, vou will 
 find a curious and beautiful Lake for UCe, and 
 whilft it is wer, fpread it upon a Piece of white 
 Cloth, and dry it in the Shade, upon new ba- 
 ked Bricks, and keep it dry, and as much from 
 the Air as may be, and thefe Two Ways at your 
 Difcretion, you may extraft Colours from any 
 Flowers, or Herbs that have natural Tinftures. 
 
 To wake a curious Blue or Sky. 
 
 Take three Parts of the Flour of Brimflone, 
 two of Quick filler, and eight Parts of SalAr- 
 moniack, grind thefe well on a Porphyry-Stone, 
 and with the Quick- filver put them into a long 
 necked Glafs, well luted at the bottom, fet it in 
 Sand, and make a "gentle Fire till the Moifture 
 1 ifes, then let the Glafs be flopped at the Mouth, 
 and encr a e the Fire, as in Sublimation, till the 
 end, and a v«ry lufttious fair Blue will be the 
 refult of your Labour. 
 
 To make that EmbtHiflmer.t , ca!ltd> The 
 
 NLtxturs of the Spheres. 
 
 Take purified Tin, that is well purg d, three 
 Pound, Copper , well purified, one Pcund, 
 melt fir ft the Copper, then the Tin, and being 
 well melted, caft upon them fix Ounces of Tar- 
 tar of Red Wine, only burnt, aRd of Salt- 
 Perre an Ounce and a half, add two Ounces of 
 Arfnick, and a quarter of an Ounce of Alom, 
 finely poudered, fuffec chem to evaporate, and 
 
 then 
 
»3S Aris Mastc-Vuce. 
 
 then caft t!um into the form of. a Sphere, 
 whichMetalbe may curioufly burnifhed and po- 
 lifhed, andj will fliew rare In the Mixture fcr 
 Spheres. 
 
 A Lake to be drawn fr&m Cocbtned. 
 
 Infufe in cold Water a Pound of the Shear 
 ings of the fmeft Woolen Cloth, a Day, and 
 fo prefs it well to take away the Oilinefs of the 
 Wool ; then in this manner Alom the Shear- 
 ings viz 
 
 Take of Roch-Alom four Ounces, and two 
 of crude Tartar, finely poudered, one of Co- 
 chineel ; put thefe into a little Pipkin, with- 
 about Four Quarts of Water, and when this 
 begins to boil, put in the Flocks- ; let them boil 
 over a gentle Firs half an Hour, fo take them 
 off, and fuffer them to cool fix Hours, then take 
 them out, and wafh them well in fair Water, 
 and when the Water is well foaked in them, by 
 ftanding two Hours, prefs it out, and let the 
 Flocks dry. Evaporate the Water, and at the 
 bottom you will find a Sediment of a curious 
 Tinfture, as alfo ia the Flocks. 
 
 Lake of Brafil and Madder. 
 
 In this cafe you mult work each of them by 
 themfelves, but ufe not fo much Alom by an 
 Ounce, as you did before, becaufe the Tin- 
 cture of the Cochineel is deeper than that of 
 Brafil and Madder; wherefore, give them their 
 due Proportion, which you will foon find by 
 Praftice : and to one Pound of Flocks ufe more 
 
 Brafil, 
 
ArSs Matter-Piece, i;9 
 
 Brsfil, or Madder for Weight. They have 
 not fo deep aTin&ure as Cochineel has. Woik 
 in all Points as in rhe former, and you will 
 have a ve~ry fair Lake. 
 
 Lake of Cochineel, amtmr ar.d more 
 ccf.e Way. 
 
 Put a Pound of Roch-Alom, weIIpoudereu» 
 into a Pottle of dqua vit<e, of the firft running* 
 and being well diflclved, put in an Ounce of 
 Cochineel in Pouder, very well fifted ; do as 
 in the former, and put the Materials in a Glafs 
 Body, having a long Neck ; fhake it well and 
 often, that the /!qu» v>t* may be well tin&ured ; 
 fo permit it to (rand the fpace of Four Days, 
 then pour it out into a clean glazed Earthen 
 Pan, and in common Water difTolve four Oun- 
 ces of Roch-Alom ; put ic into the coloured 
 Jqua vi-te ; put it into Hypocrates's Sleeve, or a 
 Woolen Bag, and for the reft, order it as the 
 other cochineel Lake, and it will very mu:h 
 profit you. 
 
 C II A P. VI. 
 
 The curious Art ,cf V aiming Glafs in vari* 
 ous Figures and Colours^ in Oil, and aneal- 
 ing and burning if the Cclcurs in a Fur- 
 nace to be more lafting; and durabk again ft 
 all Weathers, a rare Secret. 
 
 SEeing all People have not the Advantage or 
 Conveniency to make Glafs of divers Co- 
 lours, in a folid Body, it will be proper in this 
 
 Work, 
 
140 Art's Mafter-Piece. 
 
 Work to give an Infight into the fuperficial Co- 
 louring or Painting it with Colours that fhew 
 fair on theoutfide, though they penetrate nor ; 
 and in the fir ft Place, I fhall fpeakof the Co- 
 lours proper for to be ufed in this Art, and 
 then proceed to Directions for ufingthem. 
 
 For a fair Yellow. 
 
 Take a fine thin Piece of good Silver, dip It 
 into melted Brimffone, and when it has lain 
 there a while, take it oat with Plyers, light ic 
 in the Fire, and hold it till it has done burning; 
 then beat it to fine Pouder, in a Brafs Mortar, 
 and grind it with Gum Arabick, and a little 
 yellow Oaker. 
 
 A Gold coloured Yellow* 
 
 Take a Dram of fine Silver, Antimony in 
 Pouder, two Drams, put them in a crucible, 
 into a very hot Fire, about half an Hour, then 
 caft it into a Brafs Mortar, beat ic into Pouder, 
 and put to it fix Drams of yellow Oaker, old 
 Earth of rufty Iron, feven Drams, grind them 
 exceeding fine for your ulie. 
 
 To make a curious Blue Colour. 
 
 For this purpofe, take theclearefl Leads you 
 can get of that Colour, beat them well in a 
 Brafs Mortar, take Enamel of the fame Colour, 
 very tranfparent, grind eachof thefe by it felf, 
 then take two Parts of Lead, and Enamel, and 
 grind them together as you did the Silver. 
 
 A 
 
Art's Mafler-Tuce. 14* 
 
 A Fine Carnation Colour* 
 
 Take four Drams of Jer, Tin, or Litharge of 
 Silver two Drams Gum and Scales of Iron, 
 each one Dram, and of red Chalk one Ounce, 
 grind thefe fine, and mix them well together. 
 
 A Velvet Black 
 
 Take the Scales of Iron, and Jet, each alike 
 Quantity, mix them well together for ufc. 
 
 Another curious Black. 
 
 To make this, take Scales of Copper, and 
 Iron, each a Dram, heat them hot in a Cruci- 
 ble, then take half a Dram of Jet, grind them 
 fmall, and temper them well with Gum Water. 
 
 A curious White, 
 
 Make this of Chryftal, ground as fine as 
 Meal, and though it be of natural white Glafs 
 Colour, it ferves curioufly to Diaper up it, and 
 for other Ufes. 
 
 A Pleafant Green. 
 
 Take dried Verdigreace, and grind it well 
 with Turpentine, put it into a glazed Earthen 
 Pot, and when you ufe it, warm it fo that it 
 may run and fpread well, and fo be pliable to 
 the Work, 
 
 A 
 
142 Art\ Mafier-Tua. 
 
 A Fair red Colour. 
 
 Pouder Sanguis Draconis, and put to it re- 
 Qify'd Spirit of Wine, and when it has been a 
 while clofe covered, it will grow very tender ; 
 wring it out into an Earthen glazed Pot , 
 that the Drofs may remain in the Cloth, and 
 keep the fine Liquid part forufc. 
 
 Another Camatim, very ple&pint. 
 
 Take Jet three Drams, red Oaker five Oun- 
 ces, Tin Glafs an Ounce. Gum two Drams, 
 grind thefe well together, and you will have a 
 fair Carnation. 
 
 'the Manner and Ways of Tainting on Glafs. 
 
 The manner of this is two-fold, viz. in Oil 
 Colours, and fuch Colours as are afterward tc 
 be anealed and burnt on. 
 
 To lay Oil Colours. 
 
 To lay Oil Colours on Glafs, you muft firft 
 grind them, once with Gum- water, then Tem- 
 per them with Spanilh Turpentine, and folay 
 them on according to Art, in Figures, or o- 
 therwife, and let them dry by the Fire, and the 
 Work is finiflied. 
 
 To Aneal or Burn Colours on Glafs. 
 
 To do this, and make the Colours abide well, 
 you muft have a four Square Brick Furnace, a 
 a Foot and a half broad, and as much in Pepth. 
 
 Lay 
 
Art's Mafka-Vka. 143 
 
 lay five or fix Iron Bars on the top of it, and 
 raife the Furnace about eight Inches above the 
 Bars ; then laying over the Bars a Plate of Iron, 
 and fifton it flacked Lime, and upon the Bed of 
 Lime lay a Row of dalles, then cover them 
 with Lime, and lay on another Row of Gkfles, 
 and fo on, till the Furnace oe filled. 
 
 Lay Jikewife with every Bed of Glafs, a 
 waft Piece, that you may wipe over with any 
 Colour. Thefe are termed Watches, and fo 
 when you think the Glafs is fufficiently burned 
 with a pair of Plyers ; take out the lowermoft 
 and uppermoft Piece or Watch ; lay it on a 
 Board, and when it is cold, ufe your Endea- 
 vour to fcrape off the Colour ; and if it hold 
 well ©n thofe Rows from whence you took 
 them, they are fufficiently done, and will hold 
 their Colours againft all Weathers, and by this 
 Rule try all the reft, and profper in your 
 Work. 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 The curious Art of building divers forts of 
 Metals 'with Leaf and Water •Gold, lay- 
 ing on Silver, 8rc. 
 
 To lay Gold upon Metals, Wood, Sec. 
 
 GRind redLead very fine,temper it frithLin- 
 feedOil ftrike it gently, and very thin 
 over with a Pencil; let the Gold Leaves be Iay- 
 cd on very Even, and when well dried , bur- 
 
 niffi 
 
144 Aris Mafter-Viece. 
 
 nifh the Piece, and it will caft a curious Luftre, 
 and in this manner Silver is laid on. 
 
 To Ly Gold on Glafs. 
 
 Take red Lead, and red Chalk, of each a like 
 quantity, grind them well together, and tem- 
 per them with Linfeed-Oil, lay it on as the for- 
 mer, and when it is almoft dry, lay Leaf Gold 
 on it, exactly even, and being full dry, polifhir. 
 
 To Gild en Stone or Wood. 
 
 To do this neatly, take Oil Ben, ami Bole- 
 Armorick, of each a fufficient quantity, beat 
 and grind them well toge her, and finely fmear 
 the Wood or Stone with it, and being almoft 
 dry, lay on Leaf Gold, as before, and being 
 well dried, polifh it, and it will flick and fhine 
 glorioufly. 
 
 To Gild that the Water frail not injure it. 
 
 Take calcined Oaker, Pumice Stone, of each 
 a like quantity ; add a little Tartar,and beat them 
 with Linfeed-Oil, then drop a few Drops of 
 fineVarnilrj, ftrain thefe, well mixed, through 
 a fine Linen Cloth, and fo you may gild with 
 it. 
 
 To Gild Inn or Steel. 
 
 To do this, take an Ounce of Tartar, three 
 Ounce-, of Vermillion, Bole-Armorick and A- 
 qu« Vita, each two Ounces, grind thefe with 
 Linfeed-Oil, and put to them half an Ounce of 
 L»fis Calamintrii, finely poudered, grind again 
 
 with 
 
Art y s Masler-Vkcz. |^j 
 
 with a few Drops of Vamifli, and (o take them 
 off the Stor e ; (train it, that it may be the 
 Thicknefsof Treacle, and fo ftrike it thin and 
 gently over ths Metal, when warm ; and when 
 it is near dry, lay on your Silver or Gold, and 
 burnilh it. 
 
 A Water to Gild Knives^ Steel Swords, 
 b on- Arm cur, &c. 
 
 Pouder Fire Stone, and put it into ftrong 
 red Wine Vinegar ; let it remain in it twenty 
 4 Hours, boil ic in a Gallon-Pof,puting in more 
 Vinegar as the other evaporates. Into this Wa- 
 ter dip the Metal, and at firft it will be Black, 
 but being dried and well polilhed under that 
 Blacknefs, there will be a curious Gold Colour. 
 
 Another curious Way for Water Gilding. 
 
 To do rhis,Take of Roch Alom three Pound 
 Roman Vitriol three Ounces , O.piment an 
 Ounce, Verdegreafe twenty four Grains, Sal 
 Gem three Ounces, and when thefe begin to 
 boil in the Wuter, put in of Tartar, and Bay- 
 Salt, each ralf an Ounce, let them boil a con- 
 fiderable while, and then take off the VtfT=I 
 and the Iron being a little warm, ftrike it over 
 with this Liquor, and when it is dried be- 
 fore a gentle Fire, burnifli it, and you will 
 .ave a curious Lufire. 
 
 T$ 
 
146 Art's MaBer-Tiece. 
 
 To Gild Silver or Brafs with Gold Water. 
 
 Take two Ounces of Quick (liver, put it in- 
 to the Fire, in a Crucible, and when it firfl 
 fmoaks, put into it an Angel of fine Gold ; fo 
 immediately take it off, and the Gold will be 
 presently diflblved, aF.d if it appear too thin, 
 flrain part of the Quick- filver through 
 Fuftian, then Rub the Quick-filver and Gold on 
 Brafs or Stiver, and it will flick to it ; fet the 
 Brafs and Silver en quick Coals, till it begins to 
 fmoak; fcratch it with a Brufh, that the Mercu- 
 ry may feparate and evaporare, and leave the 
 Gold of a faint Yellow ; then heighten it wirh 
 Bole, Sil Armoniack and Verdegreace ; grind 
 and temper it with Water. 
 
 C II A P. VI I. 
 
 \A Treatije of Met*}/, in tinging, tinftu- 
 ring, ordering^ find altering their Colours, 
 hardening, (oft twinge refitting, meltings 
 making Quick- /i'-v< r Malleable, and ma- 
 ny other curious Matters. 
 
 To make Brafs. 
 
 TO do this, take three Pounds of Copper 
 one of Lapis Calamittaris, in Pouder, melt 
 them together for the Space of an Hour, and 
 then put it our, and the Copper will be rranf- 
 mated into a fair fhining Brafs. 
 
 7>j 
 
ArSs Ma ft tr -licet. 147 
 
 To make Brafs white. 
 
 Dilute in Af»-fertis about a Penny Weight of 
 Silver, put it m a Vcffel to the Fire, till the 
 Silver turns to Water ; to which add as much 
 Pouder of white Tartar as will fuck up the 
 Warer ; then make it into Balls, rub any po- 
 Kfhed Brafs wirh this, and it will take the Co* 
 lour of Silver, 
 
 To make Copper of a Gold Colour. 
 
 Melt the Copper, and put a little Zink to it 
 in Filings, and being incorporated, it will be of 
 a very Ihining Gold Colour. 
 
 To make Copper exceeding White. 
 
 To make this Metal of a Silver Colour, take 
 Sublimate , Sal-Armoniack , of each a like 
 Quantity , boil them in Vinegar , in which 
 quench the Copper, when taken red hot out of 
 the Furnace, and it will bear a Luftre like Silver. 
 
 To make Gold or Silver (oft. 
 
 Take Sal-Armoniack, Mercury Sublimate, of 
 each a like quantity, melt the Gold or Silver, 
 and put to it a little of this Pouder, and the 
 Metal will be foft. 
 
 To make Quick-filver malleable. 
 
 When you have hardened your Quick filver, 
 
 break the Metal in fmall Pieces, and boil it in 
 
 G 2 {harp 
 
148 Art's Mafier-T'tece. 
 
 fliarp Vingeat a quarter of an Hour ; put to it 
 then a little Sal Armoniack, and digeft ir tenor 
 twelve Da s, fo put altogether in a luted Cru- 
 cible, and fer it in the Fire, till by Degrees it 
 becomes red hot, and cracks little and little, then 
 hang the Mercury in a Pot, with Brimftone at 
 the. botrom ; lute ir well up, fo fer. it in the 
 Fire, th»r it may grow hot by Degrees, and 
 receive the Fume of the Sulphur. Do this 
 for a Month once a Diy, and the Mercury will 
 run, and endure the Hammer upon any C*cca- 
 fion 
 
 Now to harden Quick filver fit for this Wot k, 
 caff Lead, feparated trcn-i irs Drofs, intoa V<-f- 
 fel, and when it cools, thruft is-a, pointed Siick, 
 which on take cut again, and then call in tie 
 Q.ick filver, and it will congeal ; then beat 
 it in a IVtorrar, doing fo often, and being fo 
 hard, melt ir often, and puc it in-o fair Water, 
 and fo it will be fixed for your Vie. 
 
 To tivge Silver of a Gold CoLur. 
 
 To do this, take fine Gold and Silver, good 
 Brafs and Copper, calcined with Live ulphtar, 
 of each a likequantiry, and it will appear to be 
 Gold of « ghitcn Carets fine. 
 
 To time Iron of a Brafs Colour. 
 
 To do this, mtlt Iron in a Cnic'-ble, catting 
 on it" Su'phur vivt ; 'hen caft if into fmall j 
 Rods, |rrn 'tat ir mt > Pieces, for by this Means 
 It will be very bVijflJB, r (> | U' ,if in Aqua fortif, . 
 dif&lve it.and evaporate theAk«y?r«Kw,then with 
 
Art's Mafter-Pttce. I 49 
 
 a ftrong Fire reduce the Pouder into a Body a- 
 gain.andir will be of a good Brafs Col-ur, fcarce* 
 J) diiccrnabk- from that made of Copper. 
 
 To make Iron a Gold Colour. 
 
 Take the Pouder of Alom of Mdancy, and 
 Sea-VV ter, m : x them till tSe Pouder is well 
 diflMved, then hear a Bar of Iron red hot, and 
 often quench it in this, and it will produce a 
 Golden Tincture. 
 
 To mah Iron a Silver Colour. 
 
 Take Sal- Armnniack in Pouder, and mix it 
 wish unftacked Lime ; put them in cold Water, 
 let them daflblve there, then heat the Iron, and 
 being when red hot, quenched therein/ ic 
 will be as white as Silver. 
 
 To [often Steel, the better to engrave w, &c. 
 
 Do this with a Lixivi mot Oik, Afh, and 
 unflacked Lime, by calling the Steel into it, 
 where it rauft remain about fourteen Days. 
 Nowtohirden it again, when the Work you 
 defignis done upon it, qaench it fix or feven 
 times in the Blood of a Hog, mixed withGoofe. 
 Greafe ; at each time, before you dip it again, 
 dry it at the Fire, and it will be very hard, buc 
 not brittle. 
 
 To th>gc Lead of a Gold Colour. 
 
 Take Lead that is well purged from the Droft, 
 
 one Pound, an Ounce of well poudcred Sal- 
 
 G i Atmoniack, 
 
J 5° Arfi M.'i(?er-?tece. 
 
 Armnniack, half an Ounce of Salt-Perre, and 
 two Drams of Sal-Elbror, nut them into a Cru- 
 cible two Days, in a gentle' Fire, and the Lead 
 will be thoroughly tinged. 
 
 To make Tin that it will not crack, 
 
 ' Take Honey and Silt, of each a like quan- 
 tity when they are mixed, melt your Tin, 
 and throw it when melted, about twelve Times 
 into it, and fo it will purge and leave cracking. 
 If the Tin thus ufed be put into a luted 
 Crucible, and calcined twenty four Hours, ic 
 will prove like Calx cf Gold. 
 
 A Vcuder to make all Metal joft. 
 
 Tike a quarter of a Pound of Antimony* 
 Axlnagxtium, Vittl> and Salt, each a like quan- 
 tity ; make thefe into a Pouder, melt this Pou- 
 der with the Metal, and it will effeft your Dc« 
 fire. 
 
 \ To make Metal melt with Speed. 
 
 Put your Metal into a Crucible, with layings 
 of Brimftone, Salt Petre, and Saw-Duft, and 
 ihefe.taking Fire in a good Heat, will foon caufe 
 the Metal to run, and fave you much Labour. 
 
 Tv put a good Temper on any E g.e- Tuols. 
 
 When you have made your Edge Tools of 
 hard Metal, heat them red hot in the Fire, and 
 dip them in cold Water, wherein Soap has 
 been diflblved j after that, hold them on hoc- 
 Coals 
 
Art's Mailer- Pi ce. 1 5" l 
 
 Coals till the Edges begin to wax yellowifh, 
 then drop TalJow on them, and dip them in 
 cold Water, and the Temper will be fitted ve- 
 ry excellent for Ufe. 
 
 To Sol'dtr upon. Silver, Brafs y or Iron. 
 
 For foft Solder, that runs foonefl, take Brafs 
 four Penny Weight, Silver five Penny Weight, 
 melt and mix them well together. 
 
 To (e par ate Silver from other Metal. 
 
 Melt a Piece in a Crucible, and caft in fome 
 Sulphur, and when theSulphur is confumed, it 
 will carry away in its Fumes the greater part of 
 the Drofs, and that which continues will eailly 
 be feparated ffom the Silver, which will re- 
 main entire. 
 
 To gild Jron^ Sic. a curious tinge. 
 
 Take three Pints of Spring Water , two 
 Ounces of Roch Alom, an Ounce of Roman 
 Vitriol, two Ounces of Verdegreafe , four 
 Ounces of Sal- Gem, two Ounces of Orpiment; 
 let them boil well, and then add fome Salt-Pe- 
 tre and Tartar ; let thefe boil up again, then 
 take them off, and the Metal being very warm, 
 rub it well wirh this Liquor, and it will fet 4 
 curious Burnilh en if. 
 
 To djjol'ue Gold upon ones Hand. 
 
 To do this, diftil the Blood of a Deer new- 
 ly killed, in B*l»e» Maria, foak the Gold upon 
 G 4 the 
 
l ^ i >frtf*/ AUjfrr- Piece. 
 
 the Lees three rim^, and the third rime it will 
 diflolve into little Particles. 
 
 To make CpPppr very [oft. 
 
 Melt burnt Brafs with Storax, in a Crucible, 
 quench it with Linfeed Oil, fo beat it on an 
 Anvil moderarely, and boil it again, quench it 
 »■■ before r and fo do five or fix times, and when 
 it is fufficiently foftned, run it with Copper, 
 and it will make it as pliable as Lead. 
 
 To make Iron or Silver a Brafs Colour. 
 
 Take Flowers of Brafs, Vitriol, and Sal-Ar- 
 moniack : of each a like quantity, beat them in- 
 fo fine Po.uder, and let them feeth about half an 
 Hour in ftrong Vinegar, then take off the Vef- 
 fel, puring in Iron or Silver, and covering ir, 
 and when it is cold, fake out the Metal, and ic 
 will appear Ike fine Brafs, and fit to be gilded. 
 
 To C(.l::t:r and [often QchL 
 
 Difiolve Verdigreafe in Vinegar, and (train 
 it through a Felt, then conceal, and when it be- 
 gins to wax thick, put to ir Sal-Armr.niack, and 
 let ic harden a confiderable time, fo me'lr the 
 Gold wirh it, and it will not only heighten the 
 Colour, but render it fofr, and very pljsble. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
Arf'i Mattb-Viece* J 5 J 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 A MifceUany or Mixture of Cttriofities : Be- 
 ing rare Secrets, known but to a ftw y 
 and highly Art jit Me and pleafant. 
 
 To whiten natural Pearl, 
 
 TO do this, take half an O mce of Bean- 
 Flour, Lime, and Egi^s beaten together 
 an Ounce , Wa*er of confound, Alcohol of 
 Wine, diftl thefe, and put the difcoli.ured 
 Pearls into the diftilkd Water, and they will 
 be a curious Silver White. 
 
 To make Horn like Tortois Shell. 
 
 Take a Dram of the Litharge of Gold, half 
 an Ounce ot quick Lime, min le thefe *-rll To- 
 gether, aud m*ke them into a Parte with Wliire- 
 Wine, and of this Compofition make Ls\i gs 
 on the Horn, that is thin on bot b lidei ; be- 
 ing very clear and dry, take it oil' f >- five or 
 fix Hours; add Tripoli, and a lirtl- Sjfad-OI 
 to it, and when that has lain as long, rub ic 
 off with a Linen Cloth, and poiiih i" ard the 
 Places where this has lain will be dii'colourcd 
 hk« Tortois. 
 
 To make a Walnut Grain on white Wood, 
 
 Thinly f{ read on it feven or eight Lays of 
 
 fttbng Grew, oneafter another, eacn oeiogfiift 
 
 dried, audit will become finning? thc^ wc a 
 
 G 5 wooden 
 
IJ4 drfs Mafixr- Piece. 
 
 wooden Brufh in common Water, or a fine 
 Pencil, and form your Knots and other Sn oaks 
 in the laft Glew, wbilft it is warm ; then ftrike 
 bard on it with a wooden Brufh. fo lay another 
 laying of Glew, and finely polifh it. 
 
 To cement broken Glafs^ a curious way. 
 
 Take Glare of Eggs , mixed with quick 
 Lime, burnt Flint, that is Flint calcined to 
 Pouder, and Eggfhells the fame, with thefe and 
 Gum Sandarack make a Glew or Cement, and 
 anoint the broken Edges of the Glafs with it 
 warm, as thin as may be ; place the other Pie- 
 ces right and even on it, and fet it to cool, then 
 let it lie in Water an Hour ; take off the fuper- 
 fluous Glew, and the Glafs will be as firm and 
 ftrong as ever, and the Cracks not be difcer- 
 ned, but with great Difficulti 7 , by a very clear 
 Light. 
 
 To make S a foes for Windows, as clear 
 as Glafs* 
 
 Take Vellom, thin Parchment, or the fined: 
 white Paper, as fmooth on both fides as may be, 
 and being wet and fhetched, put it on the Sa- 
 llies, asftrait as you can without tearing, then 
 let it gently dry in the Shade, fo take two Parts 
 of Nut-Oil, or Linfeed Oil, two Parts of fair 
 Water, and a little white Glafs beaten to fine 
 Pouder, boil them in a Glafs Body, in Sand, 
 fet on a.Tile, pretty near the Fjre, tillthe Wa- 
 ter be confumed then mix and drain it, and 
 jay it on with a fine Pencil, lay ic on very thin, 
 
 buc 
 
Arts Mafter-Piece. iff 
 
 but fo that it may well (bale through the Safhes, 
 and equal all over, and fo they will be excee- 
 ding tranfparent. 
 
 To [often and dijjclve Horn, or Tortois. 
 
 Make a Lee of the Afties of burnt Bean Pods, 
 ftrong Vinegar, quick Lime and Tartar, put 
 in the Horn in thin Pieces, and in four or five 
 Hours the Horn will run to Gdly, or be fo foft, 
 that you may work it into what Form you 
 pleafe with little Labour. The like almofl may 
 be done with TortoisShell, but it will not gel- 
 ly ; however, it will be fo foft, that it may in a 
 manner be moulded, like Wax, and very pli- 
 able to make fmall Boxes, or Cafes for Watches, 
 and other things 
 
 To [often Ivory, a curious Way. 
 
 Boil a good handful of Sage-Leaves, in thrice 
 diftilled Vinegar, put in a lirrle quick Lime, 
 and boil the Ivory in it, and it wil grow foft 
 and tough, and not break, but with t;rca: Dif- 
 ficulty, when it is worked in the fineft Comb* 
 Teetb, or other fine Works. 
 
 To take Spots out c[ Ivory, and whiten it 3 
 a new Way. 
 To do this, lay the Ivory in quick Lime, and 
 pour fir ft a fprinkling of Vinegar, and then 
 Water, but not too much, that the Hear may 
 not be too great to make »t fcale or grow brittle, 5 
 and when it has Iain twenty fout Hours, take 
 
 k 
 
156 Arrs Mafier-Viece. 
 
 it our, wafh it with White- Wine, rub and po- 
 lish it, and it will be marvellous White. 
 
 To melt Amber for divers Ufes. 
 
 Take Amber, that is not brittle, put in Pie° 
 ces, in Juice of Citrpn, or ftrong Vinegar, fo 
 that it raay faim about an Inch or two in the 
 VefTcl you put it into, and fo fet it over a gen- 
 tle Fire, and let it heat and fimper till ic boil - 
 up then fee when the Amber grows foft, or 
 diflulves, and put it to the Uies defign'd. 
 
 To make Artificial Aimbergreafe. 
 
 Take Florence, Orris Roots , and white 
 Starch ; of each an Ounce, Afphaltum, or Bi- 
 tumen, half an Ounce, Benjamin an Ounce, 
 Sperma Ceti an Ounce, Ben Nuts an Ounce, 
 Mmk a Dram, Gum-Tragacanth. as much as 
 will bind it clofe together, when well incorpo- 
 rated to make up. 
 
 To work thefe, obferVe , that in the firft 
 Place you make a Parte of the Benjamin, 
 Starch, and Sperma-Ceti ; this done, take one 
 part, and make up half the Afphaltum ; rhe o- 
 ther part make into a black Parte, with all the 
 Ingredients, then join and temper them well 
 with your Hand. 
 
 To maJu Light for Lamfs, that will 
 not fmOak. 
 
 To do this difiil a Quart of good O'ive- 
 Oil, and make the Wick of TaJk, or S one- 
 
 Alom, 
 
Art** Mafer-Viece. 157 
 
 Alom, like other Wicks, wMch is to be done 
 by fteeping them well in Wa'er, and they will 
 fpirj our ; and to make the Oil rife, make a 
 great many little H< les with a fmall Awl or 
 Needle, in the Wick, and it will give a bright 
 and curious fteady Light, without fmoaking. 
 
 To make a Candle., not to be put out by 
 
 any IVmd. 
 
 ■ 
 To do this, fill a fmall pliable Reed, or Wheat- 
 Straw, wirh natural live Sulphur, wrap it about 
 virh fine fmall Lint, or Often, cover it with 
 Wax, and make it in the Fotm of a Candle ; 
 and then, if the Wind ha ( pen to blow ir out, 
 the Snuff touching the Sulphur, will immedi- 
 ately light again to great Admiration, 
 
 To hinder any Oil that is to burn from 
 
 Jm:)clkl%g. 
 
 To -bring this about, diftil the Juice of Oi- 
 nions, and put a lictle of it at the bottom of 
 the Lamp, or whatever you burn it in, and rhe 
 Oil fwimmirg on the top. the ftrength of rh« 
 diddled Liquor underneath penetrating if will 
 hinder it from fmoaking, and make it burn the 
 brighter. 
 
 To put a curious White on Alabafter^ and 
 
 v>hite AJ.ikh. 
 
 To do this, beat Pumice Soneinto finrPou- 
 der, and for twelve Hour*, or thereabouts, in- 
 fctfe it in Verjuice j then dip a Sponge in it, 
 
 and 
 
if?' Art's MaFter-Tiece. 
 
 and rub the Stone well with it pretty warm, 
 then wafh it with a Woollen-Cloth, dipped in 
 fair Water, and fo dry it with another Wool- 
 len Cloth, and nolifli it, and it will be an admi- 
 rable fhining White. 
 
 To make (hining Jafxn^ or China- Ink, 
 
 Take an Ounce of Lamp Black, two Drams 
 of Indico, half a Dram of Peach Black , one 
 Dram of black Endive burnt ; beat them into a 
 fine Pouder, and then with a Moiety of Fig. 
 Leaf- Water, and another part of Milk, and a 
 very little GunvArabick, and when they are 
 well mixed, make them up for ufe ; but before 
 you ufe the Lamp Black in this Work, clarifie 
 ie in an Earthen Pipkin- to take out the Drofs. 
 
 To make Tellow Amber White. 
 
 This is a rare Secret, and profitable to be 
 put into Praftice. To do it, take a Pound of 
 VellOw Amber, and put it into a very ftrong 
 Cucurbit of Earth ; add to it two Pound of 
 Sal Gem, or Bay-Salt, pour upon them the like 
 quantity of clear Spring- Water, or as much as 
 will ferve to diflblve the Salt ; that being done, 
 pour on fome River Water, and boil them all 
 together in an Alembeck for the fpace of four 
 Hours, without a Neck, and the Amber will be 
 of a delicate white (hining Colour, when po- 
 liced. 
 
 Ta 
 
Art's Mafter- Piece. 1 79 
 
 To caft Hum in Moulds like Lead. 
 
 Take Aflies of Wine- Lees, burned and un- 
 flacked Lime, and make a ftrong Lee, put into 
 it the Scraping- or thin Shavings of Horn, and 
 let them boil till the Horn becomes as Pap, or 
 Jelly, then mix with it fuch Colours as you 
 would have it reprefent, and caft it into what 
 Mould or Figure you would have it reprefent, 
 and being cold, it will harden like Glew, and 
 be of an intire Piece, and retain the Colour ve- 
 ry well; and thus you may caft the Figures of 
 Flowers, Beads, Birds, or any other thing, in 
 Horn. 
 
 To make a St one that fla/l take Fire, mid 
 bum of it [elf if you wtt it with your 
 Finger. 
 
 Take a Load-Stone, that will draw Iron well 
 to it on the one lide,and put it awayon the other 
 fide ; put it into a leaded Pot, put to it four 
 Pound of Pitch, and one Pound of Brimfione, 
 Lute and Clay well your Pot, and fet it in a 
 Furnace, giving it a gentle Fire the (pace of a 
 Day and. a Night, augmenting the Fire the fe- 
 cond Day, and the third Day more, whilft the 
 Stone is on Fire, and when it is well burned, 
 cool it again, and cleanfe it, and fo when at any 
 time you wet it, that Part will appear on Fire, 
 {0 the Admiration of the Beholders. 
 
 CHAP; 
 
1 4 o Aat's Ma Her- Piece. 
 
 CHAP. X. 
 
 InftrutTiens how to cafi Figures in TVax i 
 Tlaifter, Pafle, Metal, &C. Leaves, 
 Flowers, Meduls, and other rare Curio fi- 
 ties, worthy of Note. 
 
 How to caft the Figures of 'various forts 
 of Animals. 
 
 X 71 7 Hen you have the Figure ready to 
 V V Mould, then Oil it, and take r fF the 
 h How Mould in Plaifter, after this manner, 
 viz 
 
 Having well Oiled it , lay it on Potter's 
 Earth, and make choice of thofe parrs of it 
 you think moft convenient to take of, and 
 there mike an Edging or Bordey of trie like 
 Earth ; rhis done, caft your Plaifte , we]) tem- 
 pered, no-- too thick nor too thin ; that part 
 being well taken, gently Hfr ir up in a* few 
 P ece> as you can ; jepair the Edges, and make 
 lirrle Notches with a Xnife, the E4t*e being oil- 
 ed, and io put them exaftly together again ; 
 afrer this make a Border or Edging of the f*me 
 Earth, in rhe Place whence you rookvrhe pare 
 of >our Piguie ; which dnne, caft your Plai- 
 ficr a. before, snd fo hfr up the Piece to re- 
 pair ir ; ami putb>g it in its Place, continue 
 thu< rip all be done, which well dried, dreft 
 the outride of the Mould with a flat fmooth 
 Pke* of Iron j and when wdl hardened, rrark 
 the Pieces, one after another j let th«m then 
 
 leifnrcly 
 
Arfs Mafter-Piece. l6*i 
 
 leifurely dry, and join, and tie them together 
 with fmall Cord, and to you have a compleat 
 hollow Mould of Plaifter, which as the Pieces 
 are more or lefs difficulr, may accotdingly be 
 made of more or lefs Pieces, from ihtcc to 
 twelve, &c. 
 
 How to cafi a hollow Figure, &c 
 
 Supple the infide of your Mould of Parte, 
 till no more Oil will be taken in ; then with 
 Cotton Wool dry it, and tie all the pieces toge- 
 ther with fmall Cord ; then fctk a convenient 
 M<Hith or cafling Place , and fo melt your 
 Wax, made tough with a lirtle fine Turpentine, 
 and when it is neither roo hot nor too cold, 
 run it into the Mould ; if your Figur« be but 
 littl?. fill if, and after a fmall time take out 
 the S'o^le of the Mnuh, and fuddenly turn 
 fhe Figure upfide down, that tne remaining 
 Wax may run out; and when you perceive 
 it is fufficientlv cold, open it, and vou wifj 
 have a h How Wax figure If you find ir too 
 thin, let the nex' remain longer in the Mould ; 
 if too thick, pour our what remains fooner, 
 and thefe Figures, when repaired and polifhed, 
 you may ; aint to any lively Colour. 
 
 How to put an inward Mould or Kernel in- 
 to any Waxtn Fgure, &c. 
 
 If your Figure be of a living Creature, 
 with a moderately hot Knife divide it into two 
 parts lengthways or overthwart; then take - 
 Potter's Earth, mixed with a little fine Char- 
 coal- 
 
16 z An\ Mafter.Pkcf. 
 
 coal- Du ft, moirteningand beating them with a 
 little Iron Rod, till as well incorporated, and 
 as fofc a< Parte, and withrhis Parte fill the inline 
 of the Waxen Figure, which dry, cover the 
 outfide of each Piece where they are to be 
 joined with the like Earth, very thin and moift„ 
 but beware it run not over upon the Edges of 
 the Wax, and having joined if, repair it with 
 a thin Piece of Copper or Iron warm apon the 
 Joint ; then make a Git or carting Hole in the 
 «noft convenient Plac*. and let it be long enough, 
 with Breath Holes. If you conceive any part 
 of the Figure, to which the Metal will not ea- 
 fily pafs, then rowl up little Pieces of Wax,, 
 about the thicknefsof a Goofe Quill, or accor- 
 ding to the Size of the Figure, which with a 
 heated Inftrument flick to fome part of it, that 
 the end may reach the Place fufpefted , where 
 the Metal will not eafily run, and there fart.cn 
 it; then take little Tags, or Iron, about that 
 bignefs, about half a Finger long, proportio- 
 nable to the tbicknefs of the Wax of the Inner- 
 moil Mould, and rhruft thefe quite through the 
 Figure, to the purpofe that the Kernel being in 
 all Parts fupported, it may not touch or join 
 cq any part of the outward Mould. 
 
 % 
 
ArPi Mafttr-Ticce* 163. 
 
 To make the Cafes or Facirg, &C- 
 
 Take Founders Earth, very fine, and fteep 
 it in a Veflel of Earth, filled with fair Water, 
 and by Inclination pour it into another, that 
 the drofly part may remain behind ; then add 
 to it fom« Bone, mix them well tngecher, and 
 with a large Pencil give a fmooth Laying of 
 the Earth on the Waxen Figure ; dry if, and do 
 fo fix times, and when it has had the laft dry- 
 ing ftrengthen it with Potter's Clay, well mix- 
 ed, and beaten with Hair, and that being dry, 
 put your Mould over the Fire, on Iron Rods, 
 in Form of a Gridiron; but beware the Wax 
 boil not within the Mould, lealt it break it ; 
 lean it then on one fide, that the Wax may all 
 run clean out at the cafting Mouth ; then heat 
 your Figure over a gentle Fire, till it be well 
 hardened, and melt the Metal you intend to 
 caft the Figure into a good Heat, and have two 
 Crucibles in the Fire, one empty to pour the 
 Metal into, that the Drofs and Scum may not 
 remain in it, and when it is at a proper Heat, 
 fet the Mould fa ft in Sand, pour in the Metal, 
 and let it thoroughly cool ; fo by breaking your 
 Mould you will have a perftft Figure, without 
 Seam; but if the Figure be large, you muft 
 bind the Mould with nealed Wire, leaft the 
 Weight (train and flaw it. 
 
 7». 
 
l 6 4 ^^ s Mzfttr-Tkce. 
 
 To caff Medals very lively. 
 
 To do this, calcine Speculum or Spaud in a 
 Crucible, rheri put it into a VeflM of Earth, 
 and pour Water on it, and when you have 
 'veil ftirre d if, add as much, more Warer and 
 being fettled, rake it cut, and make ir into 
 Balls, then a fecond time calcine it, and beat it 
 into Pouder , afperfe fome Vinegar on it, and 
 by that mcms make ic into a Parte, then a third 
 time calcine it, and when cold, beat it ro l 'ru- 
 der, and fearfe it very fine, adding an Ounce 
 of Sal Armoniack , dilTdved in Wa'd ro 
 rwtKe Ounces of Speculum; keep it 'hen in a 
 Cellar, and with it mike your MoqlJ-. or o- 
 thcrways frame your Medals of it, in->«<rening 
 ir ; alfo with Crocus Martis, or SafFon of 
 Iron, may be made another' Sjmid, in which 
 you maycaft the fined Hair imaginable. 
 
 To caft Lawrel- Branches^ Flowers, Vine- 
 Leaves, and thz lib" titirifUS things. 
 
 To do this, mike a Circle of Earth , like 
 a Box to the bisnefs of the rhinq you intend 
 to call, and imirate <uch Branched, Leaves, 
 or Flower*, as are of a good Snbftance, for 
 if too thin, the M^tal wiil not, without great 
 D fficulty, run ; and when you have chofe 
 what you defign, run a Needle, with a Thread, 
 at the end of the Stalk of the Flower or Leaf, 
 and fo through the middle of it, faftening one 
 end of the Thread to the bottom of the Cir- 
 cle, and the other to a Stick that is to fupport 
 
 over- 
 
Art's Mifter-Piece. l6f 
 
 overagainft it in a Perpendicular Line, that 
 your Flower o- {.eat touch not the fides of 
 the Circle ; bu* before you fatten either, pur a 
 little Piece of Wax at rhe end of the Sralk for 
 a Gir hole, which muft touch the bottom where 
 the thread was fa^er.ed Having done this, caft 
 a Comport ton of Plainer of Biick, and Plume, 
 wi r h Sal Armoniack Water ; and when if j s 
 well mx»*d, very fiii*; and dr\ , bake ir till rhe 
 Flower bi wholly co.Viim-d r ha~ ir encompalTes, 
 ana has taken the Imprcflion off and being al- 
 mrft cold, run into ir Tin Silver, or other 
 Metal ; if Tin, you may pur arhiid part Lead, 
 or if Silver, a lirle Copper and voq will find 
 the Leaves or Flowers very curioufly taken in 
 the Metal; fake them ou b licrle and little, 
 broking off the Mould •, and afrer this man- 
 ner may you caft all Reptiles or Creeping 
 Things. 
 
 To wee!. 1 off F:gt:r:s in Va(?e. 
 
 Take the Crumb of a new drawn white 
 Loaf, mould ir till it becomes clofe as Wax, 
 an H very | liable, then bear ir, and rub it with 
 a RowJinu Pin, as fine arsd far as ir will go, 
 then print ir in the Moulds, and uhtn it has 
 taken the fuiti ! F';;i><e you dtfire, dry it in 
 a S ove, aid ir W b« very hard ; and to pre- 
 ferve rhis from V rmine, you may mix a little 
 Poudcr of Aloes with it. 
 
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1 66 Art's Maper-Viece. 
 
 To mould [wall Figures of Jafyer Colour. 
 
 Oil your Moulds with a fine Pencil, and di« 
 verfifie them with fuch Colours as you pleafe, 
 with Gum Tragacanrh ; if they fpread or run, 
 put a little of the Gall of an Ox, for the thick- 
 er the harder it will prove ; then mould your 
 Pafte of the Colour of Jafper, or the like ; 
 put it in to fiil the Mould, tie it with a Wire, and 
 take it out, repair and varnifh it, and fee it to 
 harden. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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