Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested.

• Containing.
  Preface.
• A. Alabaster.
  Gum animæ, Gum animi.
  Gum arabick.
  Armenus bolus, bole armoniac.
  Of the colour of the best ashes.
  Of the bleachers ashes in Holland.
  Azure.
  To dye an Azure Colour.
• Æs ustum, to make.
• Allum, Alum. Allum Water, Alum Water.
• The method of aluming of stuffs, particularly for dying reds
• Amber
• Arsenick
• To dye cloth, &c. Ash Colour.
• Aurum musicum/musivum.
• B. Bice.
  Bistre, bister.
• Gold beating.
• Beryl
• Black. (Pigmentit ja väriaineet)
• Black. (Värjäysohjeita)
• Blackness.
• Observations on black colours.
• Bleaching
• To dye an Ox-Blood colour
  To dye Silk a Blood colour
• Blue. (Pigmentit ja väriaineet.)
• A transparent Blue from Mr. Boyle equal to ultramarine
• Observations on Blue Colours.
• The method of making a vat, and preparing hot suds for dying linen and woollen Blue
• A Blue Dye for Silk.
  How to prepare a Blue dye.
  An excellent liquor...
  To dye Blue.
• Blue Japan.
• Blue for painting or staining glas.
• Bue of the dyers
• Of dying Blues.
• To make German Blue.
• Blueness.
• Body, as to bear a body.
• Bollito
• Ty bones, horns, wood, &c.
• To make bran-water.
• Brasil, Brazil.
• Brass
• To extract Lake from Broom flowers.
• Spanish Brown.
• Observations on Brown Colours.
• The method of dying browns.
• Burning of colours.
• C. Ceruss.
  Chromatick.
  Copal.
• Calamine stone, lapis calaminaris, calamite, cadmia.
• Carmine.
• Of dying a Carnation or Red-Rose colour.
• Chalcedony, Calcedony.
• The way to make China, or fine Earthen-ware
  How to Enamel, Paint, and Gild them.
• Chrysolite.
• Cinnabar.
• Of dying a Cinnamon colour.
• Of dying clove colour.
• Cochineal.
• Colour.
• Of the colours of thin plates.
• Colours of natural bodies.
• The seven painting colours in general
• Colours in painting.
• Colours in particular.
• Observation on Mineral Colours.
• Observations on vegetable colours.
• Of preparing colours.
  The method of grinding colours.
• Of mixt and compound colours.
• Tempering of colours.
  Help the defects of colours.
  To burn or calcine colours.
  To prepare shadows for colours.
• To wash colours.
  Steeping of colours.
• Colours us'd in dying.
• Colouring and Non Colouring Drugs.
• Colouring in painting.
• Colouring.
• The making original colours.
• The use and nature of dry colours.
• Copper.
• Copper Green.
• Copperas, coperas.
• To make crayons or pastils of which there are different methods.
• Of the making of crayons for dry colouring.
• [To dye] Crimson.
• Crocus martis, Crocus ferri.

• Dust.
  Brass dust.
  Silver dust.
  Gold dust.
  Tin dust or powder.
  Copper dust.
• Elemi, Elemy.
• Emerald (colours).
• Enamel.
• Black enamel.
• Blue enamels.
• Proper rules and matter for all sorts of Enamel, with directions for qualifying the fire, in order to succeed well.
• Enamel (ohjeita mm. eri väreihin)
• The method of drawing the spirit of the vitriol of Venus, which has a wonderful blue, and how to separate the caput mortuum for tinging of glass.
• The way to Enamel in all sorts of colours on gold and other metals.
• To dye fillemot.
• To dye silk a fire colour.
  To dye a flame colour.
  To dye silk a flame colour.
• To dye woollen stuffs, &c. a flesh colour.
• Frit, fritt.
• Fustick, fustock.
• G. The way of making a green with the flowers of violets.
  To make bladder green.
  To make silk a brimstone white.
  Gummo resin, Gum rosin.
• Gilding.
• To tinge Glass of a deep red.
  To make a peach colour in Glass.
  To make a gold yellow in glass.
• To give glass the colour of lapis lazuli.
• To make a milk white colour in glass.
  Another fairer and whiter colour.
  To make common glass become white and crystalline.
  To make marble colour in glass.
• The following account of the colours for painting on glass we have from the celebrated M. Felibien.
• Painting or staining glass.
• [Glass, painting.]
• Colours for glass.
• Liquid gold and silver.
  To burnish gold.
  To make a very fine polish'd gold...
• To dye silk a gold colour.
  To dye stuff a gold colour.
• To make a granate colour in glass.
• Green.
• The way of preparing the transparent verdegrease is as follows.
• Sap green.
• Iris green, to make.
• Observations on green colours.
• Sea-green colour for a tincture of glass.
• Green to dye.
• Green for silks.
• Grey to dye.
• Gum.
• Gums.
• To dye horns
• To dye or colour horse-hair, or any hair, &c.
• I. J. Indian Red.
  Indian Wood.
  Black ivory.
  To dye ivory white.
• How to draw with Indian ink.
• Indigo
• To prepare for the Indigo Dye.
  How to prepare the indigo dye for the lye, in conjunction with the Provence blue, and make it lasting for stuffs, silks, woollen, and linnen.
  The way of mixing the Provence blue with woad for silk, woollen, and linnen ware; and to improve the blue.
  To dye linnen thread Blue.
• Ink.
• To gild iron...
• The method of preparing woods for Japanning.
• The method of Japanning wood with black.
• White Japan.
• Red Japan.
• Blue Japan.
• Lapis Lazuli Japan.
• Chestnut-coloured Japan. Olive-coloured Japan.
• Marble and Tortoise Shell Japan.
• Japanning with gold size.
• The way of Japanning wood or paper.
• Of japanning metals with gum-water.
• To japan brass, such as is us'd to gild brass buttons, or make them look like gold.
• Jeat.
• Kermes.
• To extract scarlet colour from Berries of Kermies, for making a fine lake.
• To dye Silk a King's colour.
• L. (Litharge.)
  How to make Spanish White.
  To give stuffs a beautisul Lustre.
• Lacca.
• To make the common lacker varnish.
• Lapis Lazuli.
• (Lead.) There are various preparations of Lead...
• To tinge Lead of a gold Colour.
  To make Lead of a golden colour.
• (Glass of Lead.)
• To Colour Leather...
• Dying Leather.
• To Gild Leather.
  To make Leather shine without Gold.
  To dress or cover Leather with Silver or Gold.
• To dye stuff a limon, or lemon colour.
  To dye silk a Limon-colour.
• To dye linnen with crampenade.
  To dye linnen thread or cloth, a good red.
• Madder.
• To marble books or paper.
• Minium, or Red-Lead.
• To dye stuff a musk colour.
  Another for a piece of rasb.

• To die cloth or stuff a Nutmeg colour.
  Another of the same.
  A Nutmeg or cinnamon colour.
• Orange colour.
• To dye silk an orange colour.
• Dying paper and parchment.
• To dye woollen a pearl colour.
  To dye silk a pearl-colour.
• To make French Pink.
• A Red-Ink for making an Impression of a Print.
• Purple.
• A transparent purple.
• To dye stuffs, &c. a purple.
• To colour the barrels of quills red.
• Red.
• Observations on Red colours.
• Of dying red colours.
• Of dying a Red blush-colour.
• Of dying Red-rose, or carnation colours.
• To dye silk red.
• (To dye madder red.)
• Rocaille.

R. Realgar, Risalgal.
S. Sandarach.
Sandix.
Shell silver.
To dye stuff a straw colour. Sumach.

To dye sand-colours.

Sanguis draconis, or Dragon's blood, a gum.

To make glass of a sapphire colour.

Of dying scarlet, and the bow-dye.

To dye cloth, stuff &c. scarlet.

To prepare raw silk for dying.

(Silver Dye)

Size.
Gold size.
Silver size.

Skins (to colour, to dye).

Dying of snuff colours.

Soot.

Staining liquors.

Sympathetick Inks.

T. Tan.
Tanner.
Tanners Mill.
Teints.
To colour tin or copper of a gold colour.

Tanning of Leather.

Tawing.

To dye stuff a brown or tawny.

Tragacanth, adracant.

The way to make Turcoise.

Turmerick.

Varnish, vernish.

Verdigris, verdegrease.

Verdeter, verditer, verditure.

Vermilion.

Of dying Violet and Purple colours.

Ultramarine.

W. To make wood of the colour of Walnut-tree.
To wash colours.
Steeping of colours.
To whiten green or grey flax.

Of compounded colours for washing of maps.

Wax.

(Wax recipies.)

White.

Whites for painting in miniature.

Of making white colours.

To discover white upon black with an iron pencil.

How to make upon art open white ground fillets and branch'd work.

Whiteness.

Dying of wood, horns and bones.

To make wood of divers colours.

To write with Gold and Silver.

Secret Writing.

Yellow

Yellows.

Yellow silk Dyes, and first Blossom-Yellow.
To dye silk yellow.
To dye stuff's a brimstone Yellow.

Of dying Yellows and Orange-Tawney.

Zaffer.

 

Articles added by way of supplement.

• To make Bronze, or powder of the colour of gold. How to Bronze.
  To bronze with copper.
• Indian red.
• An invisible ink.
• To discover gold under a black colour, with an ivory Point, a great secret and very beautiful.