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.

Paints And Colors

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

Another (White is prepared also)

White is prepared also with pure white oxide of lead, ground with a little essence, added to oil of pinks and mixed with gallipot varnish…

Another (Peach-stones burnt in a close)

Peach-stones, burnt in a close vessel, produce a charcoal, which, when ground on porphyry, is employed in painting to give an old…

Mixing Paints

ter, therefore, mixed with black in different doses, ❘ mixture than when the matter composing it is exa great variety of shades may be…

Driers, Fresco, Etc

To make Crimson, or Rose-color. Carminated lake-that which is composed of alum charged with the coloring part of cochineal, ceruse, and…

Artists' Oil Colors

On Coloring Materials. The composition of colors as respects those leading tests of excellence, preservation of general tints, and…

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