THE GRAYISH-GREEN SNAIL-MARBLE.
To produce it the colors are thrown on in the following order, black, claret red (two parts carmine lake and one part of black well mixed,) pink (ten parts of white and one part of scarlet red) gall-water which forms the white veins, and, finally, the body color, which consists of one part of black, three parts of sprinkling-water and an addition of green according to what shade of green is desired.
GENERAL REMARKS UPON DRAWN MARBLES.
GENERAL REMARKS UPON DRAWN MARBLES.
All marbles that are drawn by the stylus or knitting-needle are, in their treatment, more or less similar to the comb-marble, therefore the way to produce them is similar to that described in the former article upon comb-marbles.
To produce a pretty coloring, it is unavoidable, to use those four colors which I have named in the former article on comb-marble.