Some prepare the canvas with gacha of flour or of mill dust, cooking it with oil and a little honey (you could almost eat this, even without appetite). One layer of this is spread over the well-stretched canvas so that the pores are filled. After it dries, the pumice stone is passed over and then it is primed with one or two layers of oil priming. Others prepare canvases with size from glovers' scraps, and when it dries, they go over it again with the same size tempered with sifted gesso. When the brushed layer is finished, the gesso is spread with a knife so it covers the threads. After drying it in the open air, the pumice stone is passed over surface again and then it is primed one or two times with a brush. ,Others prepare linens with glue size and use sifted ashes in place of gesso, making an even mixture, and applying it with a brush and knife. When it is dry and gone over with the pumice stone, it is primed only with common red earth ground in linseed oil; they use this in Madrid. Others use a priming of white lead, red lead, and charcoal black, all ground in linseed oil and used over the gesso preparation.,,