To prepare black
From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829).
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From MacKenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts (1829), printed page 372, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/101091388.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
- 3 oz. of calcined umber
- a pint of linseed oil
- 1 quart of linseed-oil
- 4 oz. flowers of sulphur
- 4 oz. balsam of sulphur
- 8 oz. black rosin
Method
- Take 3 oz.
- of calcined umber, 1 do.
- boraxs run down together.
- This will fine with gold.
- To prepare oil for black printing.
- Take half a pint of linseed oil, boiled well until of a proper consistence, to which add a small quantity of Barbadoes tar, prepared the same way.
- Another.
- Take 1 quart of linseed-oil, 4 oz.
- flowers of sulphur, 4 oz.
- balsam of sulphur, 8 oz.
- black rosin.
- To form a cream colour body.
- Take 2 cwt.
- blue clay, I do.
- black do.
- 3 qrs.
- flint, and 1 qr.
- Cornish stone.