1. White wax, two ounces; black and Burgundy pitch, of each one-half ounce; melt together, add by degrees powdered asphal-tum two ounces, and boil till a drop taken out on a plate will break when cold by being bent double two or three times between the fingers; it must then be poured into warm water and made into small balls for use. 2. (Hard Varnish.) Linseed oil and mastic, of each four ounces; melt together. 3. (Soft Varnish.) Soft linseed oil, four ounces; gun benzoin and white wax, of each one-half ounce; boil to two-thirds.

Varnish For Engravings, Maps, Ect

Digest gum sandarach twenty parts, gum mastic eight parts, camphor one part, with alcohol forty-eight parts. The map or engraving must previously receive one or two coats of gelatine.

Varnish To Fix Engravings Or Lithographs On, Wood

For fixing engravings or lithographs upon wood, a varnish called mordant is usee in France, which differs from others chiefly in containing more Venice turpentine, to make it sticky; it consists of sandarach, 250 parts; mastic in tears, 64; rosin, 125; Venice turpentine, 250; alcohol, 1000 parts by measure.

Varnishes For Oil Paintings And Lithographs

1. Dextrine 2 parts, alcohol 1 part, water 6 parts. 2. Varnish for drawings and lithographs: dextrine 2 parts, alcohol 1/2 part, water 2 parts. These should be prepared previously with two or three coats of thin starch or rice boiled and strained through a cloth.

Varnish For Oil Paintings

Digest at a slow heat gum sandarach two parts, gum mastic four parts, balsam copaiva two parts, white turpentine three parts, with spirits of turpentine four parts, alcohol (95 per cent) 50 56 parts.

Beautiful Varnish Fob Paintings And Pictures

Honey, 1 pint; the whites of two dozen fresh hen's eggs; 1 ounce of good clean isinglass, 20 grains of hydrate of potassium 1/2 ounce of chloride of sodium; mix together over a gentle heat of 80 or 90 degrees Fah.; be careful not to let the mixture remain long enough to coagulate the albumen of the eggs; stir the mixture thoroughly then bottle. It is to be applied as follows: one table spoonful of the varnish added to half a table spoonful of good oil of turpentine, then spread on the picture as soon as mixed.