The Mysteryes of Nature and Art / Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention

by John Bate

This colour is compounded of a good greene and Saffron.

A Poppin-jay greene.

This colour is compounded of azure, and masticot.

A good yellow.

Take Saffron, or Cambugium, and temper it with gum-water. Sad it with Vermilleon.

A sable or blacke.

Take a Torch, hold it under a lattyn Bason, temper that blacke with gumme-water.

A velvet-blacke.

Bvrne harts-horne on a Colliers hearth; then grinde it with the gaul of a neat, put it into a shell, and let it dry in the shade: when you would use it, grinde it againe with gumme-water.

To write gold with Pen or Pensil.