July 6/54 Take a Roman cloth (raw cloth) strain on a frame and trowel a coat of white color on, composed of ox zinc (dry) & AHN’s meguilp see p.14. mem. With more meguilp the white works softer, with more turps the white gets stiffer.--,the color was trowelled off close to the cloth so that the perfect grain was preserved, taking care however that color was well spread into the cloth, leaving no holes bare.,next day the colored surface was hard dry very white & tolerably evenly laid. The back was not stained with any of the materials used for the surface with the exception of here & there some of the white color had worked thro’ the cloth where it had been more open than in other parts. But even this was very slight & the color had become quite dry.,,[note there is another recipe for meguilp dated Nov.1854 on page 66 of this book],