Items

• Water Proof . – The following is the Chinese method for rendering cloth water-proof:

  A recipe and method for waterproofing cloth by mixing melted wax with turpentine.
• To Paint Grates Black

  A recipe for making a black paint using a red-tinted lead-based pigment
• To Make Ink

  A method for making ink by steeping galls and iron sulfate in gum arabic, made shiny by the addition of sugar and sack wine.
• To Dy [Dye] Blue

  This recipe gives instructions for creating a blue dye for wool, using logwood and verdigris.
• To Dy [dye] a Good Red

  This recipe gives instructions for creating a red dye for wool, using brazilwood, madder, alum, and chamber-lye (urine).
• Patent granted to Mr. Wm Jayne of Sheffield...

  A recipe for a preservative for eggs using quicklime, salt, and cream of tartar.
• My Grandmothers F: Sear Cloth
• Mr Balls Receipt for making black Ink

  A recipe for making black ink using iron galls, gum arabic, and copperas (possibly green vitriol)
• In the [Annales] des [Certes] is the following receipt for making a milk white paint

  A recipe for making a white paint using lime, milk, linseed oil, Burgundy pitch (a kind of resin), and Spanish white (a chalk white pigment).
• For keping Shoos Black

  A recipe for making shoe black (keeping shoes black).
• An Important Improvement in Shoes and Boots from the London Chronicle

  A method for waterproofing leather shoes using wax, oil, turpentine, and burgundy pitch, used to soften and weatherproof.