Black
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A short encyclopedia entry on the color black as used by dyers, painters and other trades. It gives the dyer's recipe for black on high-priced woollen cloth (woad and indigo base, boiled with alum, tartar or wine-lees ashes, maddered, then blacked with galls, copperas and sumach), and a simpler method for cheaper stuffs. It also describes other blacks: German or Frankfort black, ivory, bone, hart's-horn, Spanish (burnt cork), lamp and earth blacks, ink, and currier's black for leather.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1771
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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