How to amuse yourself and others. The American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 283
terra-cotta clay is used, it can be baked in a kiln, whichwill, while hardening, turn it a fine buff terra-cotta color, andmake the object, if well modelled, ornamental enough for almostany use. From the other clay, plaster casts can be taken, and the ar-ticle reproduced in plaster as many times as… … fty.167 How to Model a Head. cigar-box will do) to form the base ; cover this with clay in theform of Fig. 165, and stick a support in the middle, as shown in How to Model in Clay and IVax. 263 diagram. The support may be a piece of kindling-wood eightinches long and about one inch thick. Build up…
Amusements · Interior decoration
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