Pages That Mention Gorge de Pigeon
Arts and sciences; chemistry.
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32 on this Composition to lay on one two to six layers of drying oil letting each layer dry before you put on another to get the better of the grease wax on [drain?] oil that may be in it and that the tincture may lay the better this precaution is also necessary for soft Boots upon which you must lay on the Black tincture and two layers of varnish over it
Preparation of the Varnish Rx Prussian blue [?] Fine red Indigo [?] Powder these apart & mix them with a little drying Oil, or [Resin?] [water?], & put them in separate Pots [?] Rx Gum Copal [??] Nut oil prepared as the drying oil [?] [Resin water?] [?] Put the Copal [coarsly?] bruised into with a [?] a Vial upon a brisk Fire [without?] [?]
The French call it Indigo [curree?] a Gorge de Pigeon Eau de Resine et [elfevel of turpentine?]