THE BOUQUET MARBLE.
(SEE [SPECIMEN PLATES].)
There is no doubt that from among the drawn marbles the bouquet marble is one of the most brilliant, as it can be compared to a number of buttonieres placed alongside each other, if the combination of colors is a good one.
In the manufacture of colored paper, the bouquet marble is mostly produced from two or three browns and one black, and is often used for lining end papers in fine books.
After the colors have been thrown on, drawn by the stylus and combed in the ordinary way, a rake-like wooden instrument is moved through the colors right and left across the whole surface of the size so that in moving the rake the teeth of the second row trace those of the first row precisely, and so on until the rake has been moved over the whole surface from the right end of the trough to the left. A somewhat changed design is produced by treatment of the colors in the same way leaving out the marbling comb and spreading the drops of color thrown on only by the aid of the stylus into very narrow cross-lines and then using the aforementioned rake as already explained. The rake consists of a piece of board of hard wood, of about 1 inch less in length, than the width of the trough, 1-1/4 inches wide and 1/2 inch thick, into which are inserted two rows of sharply pointed wooden teeth about 1 inch distant from each other and leaving a space of about 1 inch between the two rows, in such a way that the teeth of the second row are situated precisely between the teeth of the first row.