Valuable Secrets concerning Arts and Trades:
or Approved Directions, from the best Artists, for the Various Methods...
Printed by Thomas Hubbard,
Norwich, 1795Chap. IV. Secrets relative to masticks, cements, sealing-wax, &c. &c.
I. A subtile mastich to mend all sorts of broken vessels.
Take any quantity of white of eggs, and beat them well to a froth. Add to this soft curd cheese, and quick-lime, and begin beating a-new all together. This may be used in mending whatever you will, even glasses, and will stand both fire and water.
II. Another.
Take rosin, yellow wax, sulphur, and cement. Sift this last very fine, and melt all together; then use it.
III. A mastich to make rock-works.
Take six parts of Paris-plaster, and one of soot, well mixed together.
IV. An excellent mastich.
Take coarse turpentine, four ounces; friccasseed and pulverised bullock's blood, one ounce; black pitch, four; wax, two; rosin, one; pounded glass, one; ciment, one; and sulphur, half a one. Boil all together, after having well pounded and grinded each of them separately.
V. A mastich for broken wares.
Pound a stone-jar into an impalpable powder, and add to it some white of eggs and quick-lime.
VI. Another mastich.
Take quick-lime, cotton and oil, of each equal parts in weight.
VII. Another.
Take frankincense and mastich, of each half an ounce; bol armeniac and quick-lime, of each, two ounces.
VIII. A cement.
Take rosin, one ounce; grinded tile 4 half an ounce; mastich, four ounces.
IX. A glue to lay upon gold.
Boil an eel's skin; and a little quick-lime together: when boiled gently, for the space of half an hour, strain it, and add some white of eggs beaten: bottle, and keep it for use. - The method to use it afterwards, is to warm it and lay a coat of it on marble, delfe, Worcester, Stafford, or any other earthen wares, &c. and, when nearly dry, write, paint, or draw, what you please on it with a pencil, and gold in shell.
X. A size.
Take half a pound of fresh-cod's tripes; boil it in two quarts of white-wine, reduced to one third. To take off the bad smell, add, while it boils, a little cloves and cinnamon. Then, throw this size in whatever mould you please, to make it in flakes.
XI. An exceeding good size, called Orleans size.
Take the whitest isinglass you can find; soak it in finely filtered quicklime-water, during twenty-four hours. When that time is over, take it off, bit by bit, and boil it in common water.
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