Bookbinding for Amateurs: Being Descriptions of the Various Tools and Appliances Required and ... by W. J. Eden Crane

Author:W. J. Eden Crane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L. U. Gill
Published: 1885-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

away. Do not stir up your seed after it lias cooled, or it will never settle iintil again heated, or having nlore boiling water added to it.

Ox Chill. —The surest way of obtaining this article genuine is to procure it in the bladder as it is taken from the animal, if you are acquainted with any butcher upon whom you can depend, for you must ascertain that the bag or bladder has never been broken. As we have been deceived ourselves in this way, we here expose the manner of the fraud. We had for some time been supplied with galls from a slaughter-house: but, finding that, notwithstanding they were brought in the bladder, the gall itself was very weak, we set to work to find out the cause, and discovered that the man who brought them procured one or two good galls and two or three empty gall bladders, the gall for which had been emptied out and sold to some one else; and, miying the contents of the full ones with a quantity of water, he refilled the whole lot, carefully tying them up with a fine string, and selling them for the proper article. The gall from some animals is very thick, but will after keeping for some time, get thin without at all losing its properties; in fact, gall is all the better for being kept, and is none the worse for stinking.

Water, —Soft, or rain water, when it can be procured, is the best adapted for all the preparations in marbling.

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CHAPTER XIII.

Ih this chapter we ehall deeciibe how the variune marble patterns for book edges or paper ai'e produced, commencing with the easiest and most common kind of marbled papers.

French, or SfisU, Marble. —Tour trough being placed on a firm table or bench of convenient height, with eoine feet of spare room on either aide, you place the pots containing the colours on your i-iglit hand and the paper or books to be

To produce the pattern-called large brown French, or shell pattera (see Fig. 90) with three veina, vin., red, yellow, and black), mix together os gall and water, in the proportion of one-eighth of the former to seven-eighths of the latter; into this pnt jour vein colours, a little at a time, and gently stir the mixture with the brush (but be Terj careful yon do not mate it froth by too rapid stirring) until it arrives at the proper consistence, which must be ascertained by sprinkling a little colour on the solution in the trough: if the colour sinks and does not spread out, add a little neat gall; but should it spread too far, mix a little more colour with water only, and put it to that which opens too much.

The brown will require more gall, leaa water, and a very few drops of the best olive oil, which will cause it to form itseU in rings, or sheila, as it falls on the aui'face of the solution in the trough.

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