Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1615
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Credit: Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t T Booke 2 %6 The Englifh Houf- mfes oueragainc as you did before : for the firft toafing was tomakeitrcceiBe the colour or die: this lecond is to re- The mix in v ccloe the oilc and make it fit for fpinning; which affoone f Colours a* you haue done s you Ihali rnixe your colours together, wherin you arc to note that the beft medley, is that which is compounded of two colours oneiy, Asa light colour and a aarkerfor to haue more is but confufion and breeds nopleafurc, but diftra&ion to the fight : Therefore for the proportion of your rnixcurcs3 you fhall cuertake two ! parts of the darker colour , and but a thirdjpart of the light. As for example,your web containestwelue pound, and the colours are red and greene .* you (hall then take eight pound of the greene wooil, and but foqre pound of the red *and foofany other colours where there is diffe¬ rence of brightnes* fixing of But if it be fo that you will needes haue your cloth of hree Co- thrcecolours3 as of two darke and one light, ortwolighc wr/# and one darke: As thus, you will haue Crip foil, yellow and puke j you fhall take of the Crimfon and yellow af e*ych two poKnd and of,the puke eight pound ? for this,is two light colours to one darke * but if you will take a pukes a greene and an orengetawny which is too darke, and one iigbtjThcn you fhall take of the puke and greene and the orenge tawny ot each a like quantity* that is to fay of cither foure pounds, wbenyou haueequaily dciii- ded your proportions ,* then you fhall fpread vponthe ground a fheete,and vpon the fame firft lay a thjiine layre or bed of your darker colour, all ®f one euen thicknefle: Then vponthe fame layre lay another much thinner of the bl ighter quantity, being (o neere as you can guefleic, hardly halfefo much as the darker.* then cotier it oucr with another layre of the fad colour or colours againe,then vp- ponir aaother ofthe bright againe ; And thus!ay layre