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197 Gilding on Glass
Mix powdered gold with thick
gum arabic and powdered Borax
With this, trace the design on
Gilding the glass and then bake it a hot
on oven. Thus the gum is burnt and
glass the borax is vitrified, at the same
time the gold, is fixed on the glass.
To make powdered gold, rub
down gold leave with pure honey,
on a marble slam, wash the
mixture and the precipitate is
the gold used
April 2 1870
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Painting with Milk
In consequence of the injury [?]
often has resulted to weak and [s-?]
persons from the smell of common [p-?]
the following method of painting in [?]
has been adopted by some [workmen?]
for the interior of buildings, [bes-?]
being as free as distemper from
offensive smell, is said to be [nea-?]
Equal to oil painting in body & [and] [d-?]
Take 1/2 a gallon of skimmed [milk?]
six ounces of lime, newly slaked, [?]
ounces of poppy, linseed, or nut oil
3 pounds of Smanish White. Put the [lime?]
into an Earthen vessel or clean bucket,
and having poured on a sufficient
Milk quantity of milk to make it about the
Paint thickness of cream, add the oil in
small quantities at a time, stirring
the mixture with a wooden spatula.
Then put in the rest of the milk, and
afterwards the Spanish White. It is
generally indifferant, which of the oils
you use, but as a pure white, Poppy
oil is the best. The oil in this
composition, being dissolved by the lime,
wholly disappears, and uniting with
the whole of the other ingrediants
forms a kind of Calcareous Soap.
In putting in the Spanish White, you
must be careful that it is finely
powdered and strewed Equally over
the surface of the mixture. It then
by degrees, imbibes the liquid and
sinks to the bottom. Milk skimmed in
summer is often found to be curdled,
but this is of no consequence in the
present pprearation, as the combining
with the lime, soon restores it to its
fluid state. But it must, on no
account, be sour, because in
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