| Winsor and Newton, ltd - 1843 - 54 pages
...fresco-painters. Take very white slaked lime, reduced to a fine powder ; place it in a large tub, and mix well with water, pouring off the water as the lime...The lime, divided into small cakes, is then placed to dry in the sun or the house top, and the longer these cakes are left the whiter they become. To... | |
| William Benjamin Sarsfield Taylor - Encaustic painting - 1843 - 262 pages
...is thus made: Take very white slaked lime reduced to a fine powder, place it in a large tub and mix well with water, pouring off the water as the lime settles, and adding fresh for eight days; these evaporating, the soft lime is divided into cakes and placed to dry in the sun. The longer exposed... | |
| 458 pages
...selected at different stages of the burning, produce very brilliant reds, 86 THE DECORATORS ASSISTANT. pouring off the water as the lime settles, and adding...The lime, divided into small cakes, is then placed to dry in the sun or on the housetop, and the longer these cakes are left the whiter they hecome. To... | |
| Meteorology - 1843 - 884 pages
...by Cennini. "Take very white slaked lime reduced to a fine powder; place it in a large tub, and mix well with water, pouring off the water as the lime...The lime, divided into small cakes, is then placed to dry in the sun on the house-top, and the longer these cakes are left the whiter they become. To... | |
| Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Electronic journals - 1843 - 442 pages
...by Cennini. "Take very white slaked lime reduced to a fine powder; place it in a large tub, and mix well with water, pouring off the water as the lime...The lime, divided into small cakes, is then placed to dry in the sun on the house-top, and the longer these cakes are left the whiter they become. To... | |
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