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To Make Drawing Tranperent Mix together in a phial three parts of spirits of turpentine, & one part of turpentine varnish or of mastic varnish having less scent, lay the paper you would have transparent in a large sheet of brown paper or paste board & pass it over on both sides evenly with a large bristle brush diped in the mixture, dry it by the fire till the spt of turpentine is entirely evaporated, if the paper proves not transparent enough when it is dry then pass it over a second time on one side only drying again as before, thus proceed till it is as transparent as you please. Black Drawing Ink Take any quantity of common lamp black and mix it by degrees with a small quantity of sprt of wine so as just to moisten it that it may mix with water, form it into a kind of paste, but take care to use only so much sprt of wine as will sufficiently moisten it for the purpose otherwise the ink when made will be apt to [oun?], mix the paste with so much Gum water as will make it the consistency of treacle, the gum water must be [illegible] string add a bout a third of common black writing ink to this mixture, & keep it in any glass vessel with a wide mouthed corked close Mrs Belcombe
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To Make Drawing Tranperent Mix together in a phial three parts of spirits of turpentine, & one part of turpentine varnish or of mastic varnish having less scent, lay the paper you would have transparent in a large sheet of brown paper or paste board & pass it over on both sides evenly with a large bristle brush diped in the mixture, dry it by the fire till the spt of turpentine is entirely evaporated, if the paper proves not transparent enough when it is dry then pass it over a second time on one side only drying again as before, thus proceed till it is as transparent as you please. Black Drawing Ink Take any quantity of common lamp black and mix it by degrees with a small quantity of sprt of wine so as just to moisten it that it may mix with water, form it into a kind of paste, but take care to use only so much sprt of wine as will sufficiently moisten it for the purpose otherwise the ink when made will be apt to [oun?], mix the paste with so much Gum water as will make it the consistency of treacle, the gum water must be [illegible] string add a bout a third of common black writing ink to this mixture, & keep it in any glass vessel with a wide mouthed corked close Mrs Belcombe
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