1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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the second, and dark blue or dark green for the third.

No. 226. Names of the different Colours used in Painting,

— White Lead^ Ceruse^ and Flake.

— The more the purer, ce-

Whites.

common sorts are called white lead ;

The white colours

; the very best, flake-white.

ruse

are generally used in house-painting. Spanish or Bougival White is generally sold in cakes of an oblong form. It is much better for house- painting than any whites that contain a mixture of chalky substances, and it is not unfrequently used instead of white lead for priming, being far cheaper, though much less durable. Gypsum^ or Plaster of Paris. — Wlien employed in house-painting, it requires to be mixed with a great quantity of water, and it then forms a very valuable article for white-washing apartments, and for paint- ing in distemper. White of Troyes, or White Chalk. — It is generally used for common white-washing, though gypsum is much preferable for this purpose. Blacks. — Ivory-Black is extremely rich and intense in colour ; but, being costly, it is seldom employed in common work. Lamp-Black is used more than any other black in common painting. Charcoal-Black.— "IhQ woods that furnish the best charcoal for painters are the beech and vine ; the former yielding a black of a bluish cast, and the latter one of a grayish cast. "When charcoal ob- tained from any of these sources is employed in