The Progress of the Marbling Art, from Technical Scientific Principles / With a Supplement on the Decoration of Book Edges

by Josef Halfer

THE BROWN MARBLE.

This marble is one of the most common, but if the colors are well selected as given in the following paragraph it will give a fine effect.

Black first, Havana brown second, chamois third, gall water, and, as ground color, humin-brown with a little carmine lake and one part sprinkling water.