Art recreations; being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting, water-color painting, crayon drawing and painting, painting on ground glass, Grecian painting, antique painting, oriental painting, sign painting, theorem painting, ferneries, moss work, papier mache, cone work, feather flowers, potichomanie, leather work, hair work, taxidermy, gilding and bronzing, plaster work, decalcomanie, wax work, shell work, magic lantern, paper flowers, imitation of pearl, the aquqrium, sealing-wax painting, panorama painting, coloring photographs, enamel painting, etc. (1873)
Day, Henry · Boston, Shepard & Gill · leaf 209
e purer thebetter. Take a small camels hair brush, and coat over with theisinglass size, while it is warm, the places you \vish to gild. Whendni, proceed with your gold size, same as the gold size gilding.The reason of apphing the isinglass size is to satisfy the porousnature of the fabric, and… … NY part you wish to have leafgold it is requisite to coverevenly with gold size, (a littlechrome yellow or white leadmay be mixed in with the goldsize merely to enable you to seethe process,) and alloAv it todry until it feels a little sticky;it can remain much longer than for bronzing, as leaf…
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