The Laboratory; Or, School of Arts: Containing a Large Collection of Valuable Secrets, Experiments, and Manual Operations in Arts and Manufactures, Highly Useful to Gilders, Jewellers, Enamellers, Goldsmiths, Dyers, Cutlers, Pewterers, Joiners, Japanners, Book-binders ...

C. Whittingham, 1799 - Formulas, recipes, etc

PART I	1

prepare cases for swarmers or rockets	7

Rockets without sticks	16

Charges for waterrockets	23

Charges for fireflyers and wheels of four five and	30

Single tubes or cases	36

Charges for fuzees or leadingmatches	42

How to prepare a waterglobe on the outside with running	48

To gild upon tin pewter or lead	241

To make white tables for memorandum books to write upon	247

To make Indian ink	253

Fine red ink of vermilion	259

Choice secrets for cabinetmakers and turners	265

To adorn wood with ornaments of silver or tin	271

Varieties of glues and cements for joining wood stone glass	272

Another method to whiten green ivory	278

How the globes discharged out of a mortar are made	54

Explanation of plate iv	60

used also in testing	73

To prepare a crucible so as not to contract any gold though	79

To separate gold and silver out of the sweepings	81

To deaden quicksilver for gilding	87

To make all metals malleable	93

A water to give any metal a goldcolour	97

Another for coarse silver	103

Another way	109

The art of Enamelling in Ordinary and the method of pre	113

To prepare the principal matter for enamel colours	120

A rose colour enamel	126

Another way to make artificial pearls	132

Of doublets	138

To colour foils of a green colour for an emerald	145

An approved composition	152

To make a fine amethyst	157

To prepare ashes for making glass	163

Instruments for making of glass	169

A sapphire green glass	175

Necessary observations in the baking of glass or burningin	180

Some general observations on the management of painting	186

A black	193

make moulds of clay to cast brass or other metals in	197

To prepare the wax	207

Another	213

An uncommon way of preparing a mirrormixture on brass	217

PART VI	223

iron and to preserve it from rust for a long time very	229

To make blue letters on swordblades	231

A white varnish	284

A Chinese varnish for all sorts of colours	287

PART VII	294

Of several red colours	300

Of yellow colours	306

A good white colour	313

How to dapple a horse	320

Several Choice Curiosities	321

To prepare a stone which being wetted produces fire	331

PART IX	337

How to prepare two colours of gold and silver to stain	340

PART X	348

How to paint or colour cattle	354

To raise a perpendicular line 360	360

To etch one hundred or more knife blades at once	365

PART	366

Another	369

Imperial water	375

How to dye silk or worsted of a fine carnation colour	381

Another method to dye silk of a crimson	382

How to prepare or set a blue vat for dying	388

A fine brimstone yellow for worsted	394

To dye silk of a good black	400

To dye a brownred colour either on silk or worsted	402

Turmeric	408

PART XIV	414

The snuff with the odour of civet	420

prevent any thing from burning in the fire	426

To correct a sour or bitter taste in wine	434

To restore a wine	436

Title	The Laboratory; Or, School of Arts: Containing a Large Collection of Valuable Secrets, Experiments, and Manual Operations in Arts and Manufactures, Highly Useful to Gilders, Jewellers, Enamellers, Goldsmiths, Dyers, Cutlers, Pewterers, Joiners, Japanners, Book-binders ... Volume 1 of The Laboratory; Or, School of Arts: Containing a Large Collection of Valuable Secrets, Experiments, and Manual Operations in Arts and Manufactures, Highly Useful to Gilders, Jewellers, Enamellers, Goldsmiths, Dyers, Cutlers, Pewterers, Joiners, Japanners, Book-binders, George Smith
Compiled by	George Smith
Edition	6
Publisher	C. Whittingham, 1799
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	Jan 5, 2009

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