Concerning The Method Of Preparing Gold For Spinning.

IN addition to the gold and silver that b drawn, a certain kind is also prepared that is called spun; not that it is spun as the word says, but because a linen thread is covered with it so that it seems a spun thing, and it is called spun silver or gold. To make this, a desired quantity of fine cupeled silver is taken-the batch used is customarily [I4I] fifteen pounds. A square bar is made with this, a braccio or more long. Then the quantity of gold that you wish to put on is taken, that is, a ducat for every pound, and of this another bar is made, sufficiently thin, long, and wide exactly to cover on one side the