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The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and InventionBate, John

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The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention

Name: The Mysteryes of Nature and Art: Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention
Author: Bate, John

Bate, John

Art -- Early works to 1800; Fireworks -- Early works to 1800; Science -- Early works to 1800; Waterworks -- Early works to 1800

_A Blood red._

This colour is made of Cinaper, and afterwards sadded with Vermilleon
at the sides, or else with a browne colour. A bloudy colour, grinde
Cinaper, Lake, and Cinaper tops, put them into good water, and if they
be too light, put to them a little Turnsole.

                          _A Lincoln-greene._

This colour is compounded of a good greene and Saffron.

                         _A Poppin-jay greene._

This colour is compounded of azure, and masticot.

                            _A good yellow._

Take Saffron, or Cambugium, and temper it with gum-water. Sad it with
Vermilleon.

                          _A sable or blacke._

Take a Torch, hold it under a lattyn Bason, temper that blacke with
gumme-water.

                           _A velvet-blacke._

Bvrne harts-horne on a Colliers hearth; then grinde it with the gaul of
a neat, put it into a shell, and let it dry in the shade: when you
would use it, grinde it againe with gumme-water.

                  _To write gold with Pen or Pensil._

Take a shell of gold, and put a little gum-water unto it, and temper it
together, and then you may write with it as with other colours.

                    _To make Azure, or bise sadder._

Take blew Turnsole, wet it in gum-water, and then wring it out, and
mixe it either with Bise, or else over-shadow the Bise with it.

                             _Red Colour._

Take Vermillion, and temper it with gumme water: His false colour is
two parts vermillion, and a third part ceruse.

                             _Another Red._

Take russet, and temper it with gumme-water, clay it with ceruse, and
sad it with it selfe.

                             _Another Red._

Take Brassill in grosse powder, allum in powder: steep them in gum
water a night and a day: then straine it, and keepe it for use.

                           _A greene Colour._

Take Copper plates, put them in a copper pot, & put distilled vineger
to them: set them in a warme place till the vinegar become blew, then
put it out into another leaded pot, and poure more vinegar into it
again; let it stand so till it become blew; this do so many times till
you thinke you have enough: then let it stand till it be thicke.

                          _To make good Inke._

Take two handfuls of gauls, cut each gaul into three or foure peeces,
poure into them a pint of beere or wine, then let it stand eight
houres; straine it from the gauls, and put vitreoll therein, and to the
vitreoll a third part of gumme, set it on the fire to warme; but let it
not seethe, and it will be good Inke, and of these gauls you may make
Inke foure or five times more.

                          _To seethe Brasill._

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