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. XXV. Another way of making Crocus Martis for Colouring of Glass.

THO' this second way of making Crocus Martis be very Easy, yet it ought to be Esteemed; since it tinges Glass of the true red Colour of Blood; it is prepared thus. Take filings of Iron, or, which is better, of Steel; mix them well in Earthen Pans with strong Vinegar, only sprinkling them so much that they may be throughly wet, spread them in Pans and set them in the Sun till they be dry, or if the Sun be hid by the Clouds set them in the open Air; then Powder them, and sprinkle them again with Vinegar, and dry them as before, then Pow∣der them again, and repeat this Process Eight times; at last grind and searce them well, and you will have a very fine Powder of the Colour of beaten brick, which keep in close Vessels for use.

This Crocus Martis thus made with Vinegar com∣plies very much with Greens, and the Emerauld Co∣lour of Glass of Lead. It is used also in Pastes for the same Colour with Verdigrease, and in Blacks.