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Black Paper for Drawing Patterns.
Mix and smooth lamp-black and sweet oil; with a bit of flannel, cover a sheet or
two of large writing paper with this mixture; then dab the paper dry with a bit
of fine linen, and keep it by for using in the following manner:
Put the black side on another sheet of paper, and fasten the corners together
with a small pin. Lay on the back of the black paper the pattern to be drawn,
and go over it with the point of a steel pencil: the black paper will then leave
the impression of the pattern on the under sheet, on which you must now draw it
with ink.
If you draw patterns on cloth, or muslin, do it with a pen dipped in a bit of
stone blue, a bit of sugar, and a little water mixed smooth in a tea-cup, in
which it will be always ready for use; if fresh, wet to a due consistence as
wanted.
Black Ink.
Take a gallon of rain or soft water, and three quarters of a pound of blue galls
bruised; infuse them three weeks, stirring daily. Then add four ounces of green
copperas, four ounces of logwood-chips, six ounces of gum arabic, and a
wine-glassful of brandy.
Another way.--The ink-powder sold in Shoe-lane is one of the best preparations
in this useful article. Directions are given with it how to mix it; in addition
to which, a large cup of sweet wort to two papers of the powder, gives it the
brightness of the japan ink. If a packet of six papers is bought together, it
costs only eighteenpence, and that quantity will last a long time.
To cement broken China.
Beat lime into the most impalpable powder, sift it through fine muslin: then tie
some into a thin muslin; put on the edges of the broken china some white of egg,
then dust some lime quickly on the same, and unite them exactly.
An excellent Stucco, which will adhere to Wood-work.
Take a bushel of the best stone-lime, a pound of yellow oker, and a quarter of a
pound of brown umber, all
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