The art of glass shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers ... : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English ; with an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.

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Title: The art of glass shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers ... : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English ; with an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.
Author: Haudicquer de Blancourt, Jean, b. ca. 1650.
Publication: London :: Printed for Dan. Brown ... Tho. Bennet ... D. Midwinter and Tho. Leigh ... and R. Wilkin ...,; 1699.
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Subject terms: Glass manufacture -- Early works to 1800.; Enamel and enameling -- Early works to 1800.; Precious stones.
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CHAP. CCXXIV. A readier way to Extract the Tincture of Kerm-Berries.

THO the Menstruum given in the last Chapter, made with Shearings of Cloath, be a very good one for this purpose, yet the following is a more easie and as effectual.

Take Strong-waters of the first Run, or Distilling, and put it into a long-neckt Glass Body; dissolve therein a Pound of Roch-Allom, adding an Ounce of Kerm-Berries, finely powder'd and searced; let it digest well, shaking the Matrass from time to time, and the Strong-waters will draw to them all the Tincture of the Kermes, and be very sinely colour∣ed; then let all settle four Days, and afterwards pour it gently into a glazed Earthen-Vessel.

Dissolve four Ounces of Roch-Allom in running Wa∣ter, and pour this into the Strong-Waters, or Tin∣cture of Kermes, to cause a separation; filter it through a Linen-cloath, and the Strong-Waters will fall through White, leaving the Tincture behind; if they be any thing coloured, strain them again and again until they be clear: Take up the Lake, or Colour, with a clean Wooden-Spoon, and make it into Troches, drying them as directed in the for∣mer Chapter: Thus you may have a quantity of this Colour, or Lake, as fine and good as the former.