A booke of secrets shewing diuers waies to make and prepare all sorts of inke, and colours: as blacke, white, blew, greene, red, yellow, and other colours. Also to write with gold and siluer, or any kind of mettall out of the pen: with many other profitable secrets, as to colour quils and parchment of any colour: and to graue with strong water in steele and iron. ... Translated out of Dutch into English, by W.P. Hereunto is annexed a little treatise, intituled, instructions for ordering of wines: shewing how to make wine, that it may continue good and faint not ... Written first in Italian, and now newly translated into English, by W.P.

Blew colour.

Grind chalke with the iuice of the elder ber∣ries, straine it through a clout, put a little alum water vnto it, let it drie, and keep it til you need.

In the same sort you may make colour of the blew corne flowers.

Also the iuice of the blew corn flowers alone, with alum and gum tempered together, is a good blew.

Also mulberies boiled with alum.

Also take blew corn flowers that are not too much blowne, and gather them in a morning before the sun riseth plucke the blew leafe, and let not any of the white come among them, and put them into a copper kettle, and hang it in see∣thing

water, till they be drie, keepe them in a glasse well couered. When you wil make colour of them, then take some of the blew leaues, and put them into a drinking glasse, poure water into them, till it be thicke like dowe, let it stand couered twelue houres, then presse the liquor through a cloath into another glasse, and put a little glue into it, and set it in a warme place, or else in whote water, vntill it bee drie and thicke to vse.