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For making blue varnish

Take the blue of flowers florey or of
Flanders & quicklime, and put in around
four fingers of water, and let it soak one
day. Take the water where the said
quicklime has soaked, and put your blue with it, and lay
it down on the wood.


For orange color

Take water where the quicklime has soaked and put
terroy merita, and put them one with the other, and then
set on your wood.


For ridding bone or horn of fattiness

One needs to make them boil in quicklime, and it must always
have water, and take a very clean pan. And when they are
washed, make them boil in the ashes of vine shoots, and
put them inside the hottest pot you can, and put
verdigris into the goldsmith's water
pot, and leave for the space of some time, and you will see a very
beautiful green color.


For making gray wood

Take alum with river water, make them boil together,
then take river water with bran, submerge the bran
and beat it together. Take iron filings & sulfur &
verdigris and fuller's earth, and make
it all boil together, and pound maplewood which will
have been soaked in water of alum and well water, &
put it to boil together. All of this will be done better in hollow
sandstone.


For making bronze in gold color

Take one ounce of sal ammoniac and grind it in an
iron mortar. Once well ground, take one ounce
of sulfur, and



