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Flexible Paint for Canvas

Dissolve 24 pounds good yellow soap, cut in slices, in 1½ gallons boiling water; grind the solution while hot with 140 pounds good oil paint. 2766. Durable Black Paint for Out- Door Work. Grind powdered charcoal in linseed oil, with sufficient litharge as drier; thin for use with well-boiled linseed oil. the surface of the mixture. It then, by dogrees, imbibes the liquid and sinks to the bottom. Milk skimmed in summer is often found to be curdled; but this is of no consequence in the present preparation, as its combining with the lime soon restores it to its fluid state. But it must on no account be sour; because in that case it would, by uniting with the lime, form an earthy salt, which could not resist any degree of dampness in the air.

Put 2770. Το Make Paint without Oil or Lead. Whiting, 5 pounds; skimmed milk, 2 quarts; fresh slacked lime, 2 ounces. the lime into a stone-ware vessel, pour upon it a sufficient quantity of the milk to make a mixture resembling cream; the balance of the milk is then to be added; and lastly the 2767. Green Paint for Out-Door Work. Add to the black paint, made according to the last receipt, sufficient yellow whiting is to be crumbled upon the surface of ochre to make the shade of green required.

This is preferable for garden work, to the bright green paint generally used, as it does not fade.