1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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strong logwood-liquor, sponge it over 3 or 4 times then take a little copperas, mix it in the logwood- liquor, sponge over your skin, and finish the same as iTo^ 217.

No. 223.

Mow to make different Shades on Leather. The pleasing hues of yellow, brown, or tan-colour are readily imparted to leather by the following simple process : steep saiFron in boiling water for a number of hours, wet a sponge or soft brush in the liquor, smear the leather. The quantity of saffron, as well as of water, will of course depend on how much dye may be wanted, and their relative propor- tions on the depth of colour required.

No. 224. To dye Leather Purple.

First sponge the leather with alum-liquor strong, then with logwood-liquor strong, or mix them both and boil them, and sponge with the liquor. Finish the same as No. 217.

No. 225.

'Painters^ hoiv to mix Colours to form different Shades. The vari<^us colours that may be obtained by mix- ture of other colours are numberless. It is only pro- posed to give some of the simplest and best modes of preparing those most frequently required. Compound colours formed by the union of only two colours are called by painters virgin tints. The smaller the number of colours of which any