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To Color Japan White

White piece of white paper either with ink or pencil, grounds are obtained with greater difficulty rub the back of it with fine chalk or whiting, than any other. One of the best is prepared and shake all the loose powder off; lay it on by grinding up flock-white, or zinc-white, with 1/6 of its weight of starch, and drying it; it is then tempered, like the other colors, using the mastich varnish for common uses; and that of the best copal for the finest.