Part 18

Holding together broken china while mending, &c., 17

Holes in leather repaired with linen, 161

Horn, to mould or soften, 148, 251

HUBBARD, ERNST, “The rendering Valuable of Refuse Wood,” by, 69

HYATT’S patent ivory, 153

Hydraulic lime, 8

Ignorance, general, as to cleaning pictures, 212

Imitation indiarubber cloth, 167

Imperfect work, 107, 108

Indiarubber, applied to soles of shoes, 161; or vulcanised cement, 162

Indifferent substances, 6

Ink-stains, to remove, 90-94, 96

Inserting pieces in china, &c., 19, 20

Iron cements to resist heat, 177, 178

Iron doors of furnaces, how to seal hermetically, 179

Iron in cements, 6

Iron strips and bands in repairing, 171

Iron, to set in stone, 178

Iron ware, or block cement, 180

Ironwork, setting a cement for, 176

Italian peasants’ shoes (_illustration_), 192

Ivory, repairing and imitating, 143-155; cleaning, 143, 144; imitations, 144; staining, 147, 148; softening, 148

Jewellers’ cement, 43. (_Vide_ Turkish)

Jewellers’ or Diamond cement, 174

Jewesses, repair of embroidery by, 202

_Joco-Seriorum Naturæ et Artis_, 1670, story from, referring to broken pottery, 20, 21, 35.

Join, to, glass and metal, 43

Joints in timbers, holes and cracks, how to close, 80

JUNEMANN, F., _Die Fabrikation des Alauns_, 6

Kaleidoscope, folding, how to make a, 37, 38

Kauri, the gum, 156, 157

Kelp, 154

_Kettenstich_, for German chain-stitch, 204

KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS, 92, 95

Knotting, patent, 72-74

KOPPE, J. W., on glycerine, 6

KRALL, BARKENTIN &, brass-cleaner, 235

KRATZER, HARRMANN, on liquid glass, 8

Lacquers, 34

LAYARD, Sir AUSTIN, 47

Lead pencil or crayon drawings, to protect, 233

Leather, artificial, 196, 198

Leather, durability of, 188, 189

Leather-glue, 197

Leather-Work, Manual of, 111

Leather-work, repairing, 183-198

LEHNER, 2, 5, 7, 9, 26, 28, 29, 31, 34, 40, 44, 77, 79, 80, 135, 136, 141, 144, 152, 157, 193, 197, 207, 208

LELAND, CHARLES G., quotation from, 50

Lemon-juice to whiten the hands, 236

Lime, 5, 24, 134

Lime cement for glass, 43

Liquid acid glue, 59, 60; recipe for, 81

LISTER, MISS ROMA, 203; MS. of Recipes, 65

Litharge cements for many uses, 175

LUTHER, MARTIN, 149

Luting cement, 235

Luting or closing chemical apparatus, &c., cements for, 30

Magnesia, calcined, to extract stains, 238

Majolica, 13, 15, 16

Malleable glass, 38

_Manuel Général du Modelage_, 64

Marble, fractures, &c., in, 140; how to clean, 238; to mend, 249

Marine glue, hard glue, recipe and description, 162, 163

Marking-ink, 237

Marquetry, or inlaid wood, repairing, 71, 72, 83-85

Mastic, 19, 135, 136; French mastic, 136

Materials used in mending, 1-11

Meerschaum pipes, to mend or make, 240

Mending cloth with indiarubber, 165-168

Mending furniture, 74-76

Mending or repairing defined, 1, 2

MERRICK’S acid-proof cement, 246

MERRITT, HENRY, 211, 221

Metal, to attach leather to, 193

Metal-work, mending, 169-182

Metallic corners for books (_illustrations_), 104-106

Mica, leaves of, how to prepare them for windows, 47

MIERZINSKI, Dr. STANISLAUS, on the manufacture of paper, 132

Minor ingredients in cements, 10

Mirror with ornaments (_illustration_), 85

MOGFORD, HENRY, 213, 218, 219-222

Mosaics, 134

Mother-of-pearl and coral, mending, 206-209; how imitated, 207; from rice, 208

Mould or mildew in pictures, 226

Mouth-glue, or solid cement, 239, 240

Musical glasses of different kinds, 39

Musical instruments repaired with shavings, 54, 55

Neutral substances in cements, 6

Oil, as a basis, 2; combination, 3; softening paint, 219

Old recipes for mending crockery, 23 _et seq._

OLYMPIODORUS, 99

“One Hundred Arts,” a book by the Author, 38

Ornamenting panes for windows, and doubling them, 44 45; beautiful and varied effects, 46

Ornamental work made of shavings, 56, 57

Ox-gall in cleaning pictures, 218

Oxidised cement, 176

PAGE, the American painter, 210

Pages in books, to repair when torn, 90, 91, 94

PAGET’S French mastic, 136

Pamphlets, binding, 100

Panel pictures, repairing, with shavings, 57; fourteenth century, in distemper, &c., 227

Panel, warped, how to straighten a, 228

Panels of artificial wood, 81; cements for, 82

Paper and wood-shavings, 52

Paper, its composition, 86, 87; repairing damaged paper, 86, 87

Paper-leather, 129, 130

_Papier-mâché_, or softened paper, 106, 121-133; articles made from, 121; moulding, 121, 122

PARACELSUS, 35

Parchment paper, how to prepare, 95, 96

Parchment, repairing, 122; artificial, from paper, 122

PARLAND, Mr., 128

Paste of starch or flour, 10

Paste, leather, the same mixed with indiarubber, 185; use and preparation, &c., 186

Paste, bookbinders’, 96; shoemakers’, 197

Patches, inserting, 201

Patterns cut from wood-shavings (_engraving_), 51-53

Pavements, to repair different kinds, 28

Peat, 78

PHILATIUS, the inventor of book-binding and glue, 99

Pictures, restoring, 210-230; glazed and scaling, how to treat, 226

Plaster of Paris, alum, and glass cement, 141

Plugging teeth with indiarubber, 166

Polytechnic cement and imperial liquid glue, also KEYE’S cement, 39

Porcelain, 18

Potatoes as cement, &c., 9

Pots, cracks in iron, 180

Prepare, to, wood for paint, 83

Process of restoring worn and injured binding of a book, and of a bas-relief in leather, 183-185

Proper paste, the, for wallpaper, waterproof, 164, 165

Pulp, paper, 130-133

Putty, 33, 34, 69

RAUFER, G. M., on meerschaum and amber, 158

Raw hide, 233

Recipe, old, for repairing glass, 36, 37; definition of, 231; general, 231-253

Red cement for iron, 237

Reliefs cut in brick, 29

Repainting old pictures, 226, 227

Repairing wood with paper-pulp, 132

Resin or pitch, 2, 3

Restoring fragments of engravings, &c., 115

Rice and lime cement, 145

RIMMEL, bookseller in Oxford Street, 40

Ringing or sounding glasses by blowing on them, 39

RIS-PACQUOT, M., 18, 29, 147

Riveting sheet-metal, 169, 170

Roller, use of the, 54

Roman and Hungarian pottery, &c., 12

Roman cement, 24; for fine mosaics, 138

Rosewood stain, 74

Rubbing in colour, 14

RUPRECHT, KARL, on egg substances and albumen, 5

RUSKIN, 221

Rust, how removed, 234

Rust or oxide cement, 177

SALLE’S cement for glass, 44

Satin gloss for paper, 248, 249

Sawdust (_vide_ also Wood-paste or artificial wood), 80

SCHEIBLER’S cement, 244

SCHLOSSER, EDMUND, on soldering and metal-work, 182

SCHWARTZ’S iron cement, 180

Scissors, cutting glass with, 48

Scraping varnish, 223

Screws, to be dipped in oil or boiling wax, 67

Seams, to repair, 196

SEDNA, LUDWIG, on wax, &c., 7

Sewing or stitching books, 109

Shoes, easily made, 194, 195; indiarubber, to repair, 160

Side-binding, 110

Silicate of soda, or liquid glass, 7, 20; with colour, 29, 33, 35

Silico-enamel, 237, 238

Silk or woolen cloth, to clean, 232, 233

Silks, black, gummed, 205

Silkworm gum, 250

Silver bands, 20

Snail cement, 249

Soaps in cleaning pictures, 224

Solder, NEWTON’S and ROSE’S, a metallic glass, 181

Soldering, 171, 172, 180, 181

Soles, wooden, for shoes, 191

SOREL’S cement, 244

South Sea Bubble, 58

Spirits of wine to remove dry varnish, 219

Splicing broken rods, spars, &c. (_with illustration_), 61

Spraying, to restore crumbling substances by, 146, 147

Staining or colouring wood, 69, 70

Stains, grease, wine, oil, to remove, 232

Stationer’s paste, 247

Statues, mending, of plaster of Paris, 141

Steam, to clean pictures by, 223

STEVENS’ and MANDERS’ wood-stains, 70

Stills, to lute, 245

STOHMANN, classification of cements, with LEHNER’S extension of it, 2, 3

Stonework, mending, 134-142

Stopper, glass, filed to shape, 48

Stoves, cement for, 179, 182

Strips or braces on panels, &c., 61, 62

Strong adhesives for paper, &c., 113, 114

Strong cement, for glass, wood, or stone, 42; for porcelain, glass, &c., 26, 136

Strop, leather, how to mend a, 186, 187

Sturgeon’s bladder or fish-glue gum, &c., 5, 32, 42

Syndetikon, 243

Tapestry glue, 245

Tarred or tarpaulin paper-bags, 163

_Tausendkünstler_ of 1782, 23

Tea-leaves, 243

Terra-cotta, 12, 13, 15

To preserve the contents of bottles when broken, 167

To protect wood under water, 79

Tortoise-shell or horn, cement for, 250

Toys, mending, 122, 123

Tragacanth, gum, 8

Transferring pictures, 225

Travellers’ glue, 247

Trees: bark, splits or cavities in, 82; to protect, 248

Triangles of tin, &c., used to fasten panes of glass, 35

_Tribune_, the New York, 60

Trunks, mending, 190

Tufa cement, 235

Turkish or diamond cement, 19, 41, 42

Turpentine, a counteracting medium of solvent spirit, 220

ULENHUTH, EDUARD, on moulding, 131

VANDYKE, picture by, 222

VAN HELMONT on liquid glass, 7

Varnish, 3, 34; to remove, 216-220

Veneers, 51, 53

Venetian marquetry, 71

Venetian glass, 36

_Venus mercernaria_, or American clam, 208

Vermin in wooden dwellings, 246

VINCI, LEONARDO DA, 151

Vinegar, commonly made from sulphuric acid, 60

Vitreous paint, 40

WAGNER, R., on liquid glass, 7, 8, 35

WALLBERGER, JOHANN, _Zauberbuch_, 96, 234-236

Wall-paper of wood, used in America, 69

Wall-paper paste, 245

Wall-paper with common paste poisonous, 165

Walls rendered air-tight (recipe), 164

Warped or curved wood, and how to flatten it, 61, 62

Washing broken china for repairing, 31

Water in cleaning pictures, 216-218

Waterproof carpets and wall-covering made from waste-paper, 191

Waterproof cement, 194

Wax in cements, 7

White of egg glaze, 223

Whitewash, to make equal to paint, 79

WIEGLEB, J. C., quotation from, 1, 147

Windows, stained glass, works on the subject by A. W. FRANKS, OWEN JONES, WESTLAKE, &c., 40

Wine-stains, to remove, 231, 232

Wire, for mending china, 19; in repairing, 170, 171

Wire-mending, 62

Wood-ashes in picture-cleaning, 224

Wood-Carving, a Manual of, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, 70

Wood-paste, or artificial wood, 63 _et seq._; houses can be made of it, 64

Wood-shavings in mending and making, 50-57

Woodwork, repairing, 58-85

Woollen cloth, to clean, 231

_Work_, a scientific journal, 129

Worms in wood, to exterminate, 72

Wrinkles and freckles, 236

_Zeiodeleth_, 246, 247

Zinc, a cement for, 174, 175

ZWICK, Dr. H., on lime and mortar, 5; in _Hydraulischer Kalk und Portland Cement_, 8

THE END

FOOTNOTES:

[1] _Ceresa_ is the setting of powdered glass of different colours in a cement bed. Mosaic cubes are often combined with it.

[2] _Vide_ “Wood-Carving,” by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, F.R.L.S., M.A. (London, Whittaker & Co., 5s.), for a chapter on this subject.

[3] For fullest details as to the treatment of horn, the reader may consult _Die Verarbeitung des Hornes_, &c., by LOUIS E. ANDÉS, in which he will also find full details as to dyeing ivory.

[4] The late W. W. STORY, the sculptor and man of letters.

[5] “Handbook on the Preservation of Pictures,” by HENRY MOGFORD; twelfth edition, revised. London: Winsor & Newton, 1s.

[Transcriber’s Note:

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]