Have your cloth well sized & rubbed down as usual. When dry,Take grod zinc white (dry) (some of W&N’s make),mix it into a paint by tempering it with sufft meguilp (as made at page 14) (mem it soon sets & becomes hard & dry),Trowel this paint over your sized cloth & take off with a steady even pressure of the hands so that you leave sufft color on to give it a nice smooth surface & still show all the threads in a nice “grain”. Next day found it very dry – white, & no stain whatever on the back of the cloth,If you want to get a smoother ground, you can continue to coat up until the proper texture is obtained.,