July 6/54 Take a Roman cloth (raw cloth) strain on a frame & trowel a coat of white color on, compound 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 troweled off close to the cloth so that the perfect grain was presented, taking care however that color was well spread into the cloth, leaving no holes bare.,Next day the colored surface was hand 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 when it had been more open than in other parts. But even this was very slight & the color had become quite dry.,