Grand-Grandfather's
Useful Antique Recipes
- all sorts of paints and
colors - content -
recipes from the 'Household
Cylopedia', 1881
- PAINTS AND COLORS -
1. To make Black paint.
• Paints from Lampblack.
• Superior Lampblack.
• Black from Wine-lees.
• Ivory and Bone-black.
• Black from ground pitcoal.
• Fine Black color.
2. To make White paint.
• White distemper.
• White paint.
3. To make Gray paint.
• Light Gray and distemper.
• Flaxen Gray.
4. To make Wood color.
• Oak-wood color.
• Walnut-wood color.
• Chestnut color.
5. To Make Yellow colors.
• Naples and Montpellier Yellow.
• Jonquil.
• Golden Yellow color.
• Chamois and buff color.
• Olive Color for oil and varnish.
• Olive Color for distemper.
6. To make Blue colors.
• Blue distemper.
• Prussian Blue paint.
• Ultramarine.
• Blue Verditer.
7. To make Green color.
• Sea-Green for distemper.
• Sea-Green for varnish and oils.
8. To make Red and Violet colors.
• Bright Red.
• Crimson, or Rose-color.
• Violet color.
9. To make a dryer for painting.
• Siccitive oil.
10. To paint in fresco.
• Paint fireplaces and hearths.
• Red distemper for tiles.
• Distemper in badigeon.
11. To make a composition
for rendering canvas, linen,
and cloth durable, pliable,
and water-proof.
• Make it Black.
• Make it Green.
• Make it Yellow.
• Make it Red.
• Make it Gray.
• Make it White.
• About coloring materials.
• Mixing mineral substances in Linseed oil.
- THE BLUES:
• Blue.
• Ultramarine.
• Cobalt Blue. (Bleu de Thenard)
• Prussian Blue.
• Soluble Prussian Blue.
• Artificial Saxon Blue.
• Blue Verditer.
- THE YELLOWS AND ORANGE:
• Yellow.
• Chrome Yellow.
• Cadmium Yellow.
• Lemon Yellow (Steinbuhl Yellow).
• Naples Yellow.
• Montpellier Yellow.
• Yellow Lake.
• Another Yellow Lake.
• Chinese Yellow.
- THE REDS:
• Dark-Red.
• Red lake.
• Fine Red lake.
• Beautiful Red Lake.
• Florentine lake.
• Lake from Madder.
• Various tones to lakes.
• Carmine.
• Superfine Carmine of Amsterdam.
• Carminated lake from madder.
• Carminated lake by extracting
the coloring part from Scarlet cloth.
• Chrome Red.
• Lake from Brazil-wood.
• Orange lake.
- THE PINKS:
• Pink.
• Dutch Pink from woad.
• Brownish yellow Dutch Pink.
• Dutch Pink from yellow berries.
• Dutch Pink for oil painting.
• Rouge.
• Pink saucers.
- THE VIOLETS AND PURPLES:
• Violet.
• Purple.
- THE GREENS:
• Chrome Green.
• Guignet's Chrome Green.
• Scheele's Green.
• Green.
• Brunswick Green.
• Schweinfurth or Emerald Green color.
• Green colors free from arsenic.
• Green color which may be employed
in confectionary.
- THE WHITES:
• White for painters,
which may be preserved forever.
• Tunic White.
• Pearl White.
- OTHER COLORS:
• Imitate Flesh-color.
13. Treatment of paintings.
• Cleaning pictures.
• Restore discolored White.
• Restore paintings.
14. Painting with wax.
• Compound for receiving the colors
used in encaustic painting.
• Grecian method of painting on wax.
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