Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Glass

8 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Glass (Combination of sand flint spar)

Glass is a combination of sand, flint, spar, or some other silicious substances, with one or other of the fixed alkalies, and in some cases…

Imitation of Precious Stones, Etc (Employed with sand etc)

employed with sand, etc., to grind off some parts | windows, and for the glass used in ornamental of the surface of the glass which is to…

Cious Stones

The Best and Hardest Glass for Receiving Colors, No. 1. Take of the best sand, cleansed by washing, 12 lbs.; of pearlash, or fixed alkaline…

Imitation of Precious Stones, Etc (Lbs of manganese oz)

2, 10 lbs.; of manganese, 1 oz.; and of zaffre, oz. | or pastes, 10 lbs; of oxide of tin (commonly called Proceed as with the other. Paste…

Celain

rally appeared difficult; yet there is no represen- To paint upon glass is an art which has genetation more elegant than that of a…

Painting and Staining Glass, Etc

parts may not be impaired by the lead with which the pieces are to be joined together. The distribution being made, mark all the glasses…

Browns

Spanish brown, umber, spruce ochre, there are more coats of the above composition put Dutch pink, orpiment.

Blues

Blue bice, Prussian blue. Reds. Rose-pink, vermilion, red-lead, Indianred, lake cinnabar. Yellows. English pink, masticot, English ochre…

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