Paint & Colour Mixing / A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds

by Arthur Seymour Jennings

Scarlet Red.

—This is bought ready made. It is the name given to the brightest of the oxide paints.

Shell Pink.

—This colour is sometimes made by adding a little good Indian red to white, but some decorators prefer to use vermilion with a little chrome yellow and burnt sienna.

Shrimp Pink.

—Mix Venetian red, burnt sienna and white lead, and add a little vermilion.

Scarlet Madder Lake.

—This is a speciality of Messrs. Mander Bros., a deeper shade being termed Carmoisin madder lake. Both are perfectly fast to light, even when used for tinting purposes, and are admirably adapted for the use of the decorator.

Signal Red.

—This is usually made by mixing orange lead, vermilionette and Paris white, or orange lead by itself may be tinted with vermilionette. “Signal Red” is a well known speciality.