The painter, gilder, and varnisher's companion: containing rules and regulations in every thing relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, and glass staining .. by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Painting, Industrial, Gilding. [from old catalog], Varnish and varnishing
Publisher: Philadelphia, H. C. Baird
Published: 1867-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

To paint Sail-Cloth, so as to mahe it Plianty Durable^ and Water-proof.

Grind ninety-six pounds of English ochre with boiled oil, and add to it sixteen pounds of black paint. Dissolve a pound of yellow soap in one pail of water on the fire, and mix it while hot with the paint. Lay this composition, without wetting it, upon the canvas, as stiff as can conveniently be done with the brush, so as to form a smooth surface; the next day, or the day after, (if the latter, so much the better,) lay on a second coat of ochre and black, with a very little, if any, soap j allow this coat a day to dry, and then finish the canvas with black paint.

To mahe Oil-Cloth.

The manner of making oil-cloth, or, as the vulgar sometimes term it, oil-skin, was at one period a mystery. The process is now well understood, and is equally simple and useful.

Dissolve some good resin or gum-lac over the fire in drying linseed oil, till the resin is dissolved, and the oil brought to the thickness of a balsam. If this be spread upon canvas, or any other linen cloth, so as fully to drench and entirely to glaze it over, the cloth, if then suffered to dry thoroughly, will be quite impenetrable to wet of every description.*

* This preparation will likewise be found both useful and econa' mical in securing timber from the eflFects of wet.

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