TABLE OF CONTENTS. Introduction [1]

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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Pages Introduction [1] CHAPTER I. The making of colors [6] Section I. Preparation of the aluminum serving to give body to the colors 9 Section II. The dissolution of tin 10 Section III. Methods of making the colors 10 I. The red and violet colors 10 a. No. 1. Red lakes 10 No. 1. Carmine lake 10 No, 2. Red lake made with Pernambuco wood 12 No. 3. Red lake 12 b. Violet lakes.". 13 No. 1. Violet lake 13 No. 2. Violet blue lake 14 No. 3. Violet, lake, called bronze 14 II. Yellow colors 15 a. Yellow lake 15 b. Chrome yellow 17 No. 1. Canary yellow 17 No. 2. Lemon yellow 18 No. 3. The color of gold 18 III. Blue colors 18 a. Prussian blue 18 b. Mineral blue 21

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 237 c. New-style blue imitating ash blue 22 d. Paris blue or ash blue 22 IV. Green colors 23 a. Schweinfurt green 24 b. Scheele's green 25 CHAP. II. The preparation of hide glue, paste, and size for glazing [27] SEC. I. Hide glue [27] SEC. II. glue for pasting 28 SEC. III. Size for glazing 29 CHAP. III. The making of fancy papers [31] SEC. I. Description of the workshop for making marbled paper 32 SEC. II. Polishers 37 I. Description of the French polisher 37 II. The German polisher 39 SEC. III. The production of papers serving for the colors of marbled paper 40 SEC. IV. The making of marbled papers 44 I. The troughs for making Marbled papers 44 II. The sizes 45 a. Preparation of the sizes 45 No. 1. Gum tragacanth 45 No. 2. Psyllium gum 46 III. Substances and colors necessary for making marbled papers 47 IV. The different marbled papers 49 a. German marbled papers 49

3 238 TABLE OF CONTENTS b. English marbled papers 50 c. French marbled papers 50 No. 1. Papers appearing as Stone, or Turkish 50 No. 2. Partridge eye 58 No. 3. Tiger marble 60 No. 4. Schroetel marble 62 No. 5. Large stone marble 63 No. 6. Broken marbles 64 No. 7. Polish papers 65 a. Simple patterns 66 b. More complicated patterns 66 No. 8. Champion marbled 67 B. English marbles 68 No. 1. Ordinary English marbles 68 No. 2. Combed paper 68 No. 3. Marbling the edges of books 71 C. French marbled papers 72 No. 1. Twilled paper.:. 76 No. 2. Sliding paper 77 No. 3. Roundabout paper 77 No. 4. Agate papers 78 No. 5. Root-like papers 84 SEC. V. Monochrome papers 90 SEC. VI. Papers that are quilted, jaspered, or called marloborough 98 SEC. VII. Papers exhibiting the grain of wood 99 SEC. VIII. Granite papers 100 SEC. IX. Papers appearing like grains of barley 101 SEC. X. Satin-like papers 102

4 TABLE OF CONTENTS 239 SEC. XI. Fire-glaze papers 110 SEC. XII. Morocco or goffered papers, water-silk papers Ill SEC. XIII. Papers for [artificial] flowers 112 SEC. XIV. Papers for roses of Naples 114 SEC. XV. Papers imprinted by woodblock 116 SEC. XVI. Fancy papers imprinted through lithography process 121 I. Execution of the design 122 II. Preparation of lithographic ink 124 III. The impression 126 IV. Preparation of the transfer ink 127 V. Preparation of the varnish for printing 127 VI. Preparation of the colors 128 VII. Mordants 131 VIII. The execution of transfers 131 SEC. XVII. Trocadero papers 142 SEC. XVIII. Papers in imagery or saintliness 143 SEC. XIX. Paper that is gilded or silvered 144 SEC. XX. Metallic papers that have the appearance of watered-silk 146 SEC. XXI. False hides of a donkey 147 SEC. XXII. Artificial slates 147 SEC. XXIII. Metallic paper 148 SEC. XXIV. Paper for sketching in crayon 148 CHAPTER IV. Impressions a la Congreve 150 SEC. I. Description of the engraved Plates for the impressions of a a Congreve SEC. II. Preparation of the colors 151

5 240 TABLE OF CONTENTS SEC. III. Colors 152 SEC. IV. Printing 153 SEC. V. The printing of borders and frames 154 CHAPTER V. The varnishing of colored prints and fancy papers 157 SEC. I. Varnishing with gum-lac 157 SEC. II. Varnishing with gelatin 158 CHAPTER VI. The manufacture of sealing wax 160 SEC. I. Theoretical formulas 160 SEC. II. Utensils 162 SEC. III. First operation, or washing with turpentine 162 SEC. IV. Proportion of the ingredients for each commercial number or trade-mark 163 SEC. V. Manufacture up to No SEC. VI. Colored sealing waxes 169 SEC. VII. Sealing wax with ornaments, arabesques, flowers, etc 174 SEC. VIII. General rule 175 CHAPTER VII. The manufacture of sealing wafers 177 SEC. I. Sealing wafers from paste 177 SEC. II. Transparent sealing wafers 179 CHAPTER VIII. The manufacture of glue applied by mouth [181]

6 TABLE OF CONTENTS 241 CHAPTER IX. The manufacture of plumbago (black lead) pencils [182] SEC. I. Fabrication 184 SEC. II. Description of the drawing [or spinning] press 187 SEC. III. Baking the ore..189 SEC. IV. Mounting in wood 192 CHAPTER X. The manufacture of quills for writing, a paste size, and a drying varnish 199 SEC. I. Writing quills [199] SEC. II. The manufacture of paste glue that is very good and cheap 204 SEC. III. Drying varnish for bookbinders 204 CHAPTER XI. The manufacture of colored inks [206] CHAPTER XII. The manufacture of crayons.. [209] SEC. I. The basis of pastels [209] SEC. II. Preparation of the soap and wax compound 211 SEC. III. Gum tragacanth 212 SEC. IV. Barley 212 SEC. V. Milk 212 SEC. VI. Colors 212 SEC. VII. General rules [223]

7 242 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER XIII. Miscellaneous productions... [225] SEC. I. The preparation of gold and silver for painting [225] SEC. II. Tinder paper [225] SEC. III. The manufacture of boot polish 226 SEC. IV. The manufacture of glass and emery papers 229 SEC. V. The manufacture of cakes of India-rubber 232