used, not to exceed certain proportions, other wise, after firing, no red will be perceptible. Yellow for mixing will devour all red if an excess is used. It would be better to avoid the combination altogether, although one part of yellow for mixing, one of ivory yellow, and one of carnation No 1, will produce satisfactory results. Any of the reds used thin require additional flux.
Capucine is still more vivid than deep red brown, and is useful for very bright flowers, such as poppies, and berries like holly, It is also the red used in hearldry. Flame red makes an attractive tinting color, very clear and brilliant.
Red is sometimes used for edges and handles of cups, saucers, pitchers, etc, and is to be recommended as a practice color, as for instance, to acquire facility in tinting and in the application of gold, for lace borders, etc. All of the reds will fires satisfactorily, if intelligently place in the kiln.
Too hot firing cause them to change to an ugly color, and if fired to hot and to long will inevitably and irrevocably turn black.
On the contrary, if not fired enough they will wipe off in irregular patches. Carnation especially will do this if thinly applied, unless highly fluxed. Even with the most successful firing they
