Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . d in house-hold decorations. By careful handling, and theaid of a photograph, this design,not only beautiful, but entirelyoriginal, can be reproduced asseen below. The design must firstbe carefully drawn on suitablepaper, in clear and perfectly cor-rect lines. This drawing mustnext be pasted on the back of apiece of plate glass, of the bestquality, 7/2 inches by 13 inchesin size. In order to paint on theglass it will be necessary to have somemeans of standing it in an upright position ;as the work on glass must be perfectly e.\ the large surface a fl
Strawbridge & Clothier's quarterly . d in house-hold decorations. By careful handling, and theaid of a photograph, this design,not only beautiful, but entirelyoriginal, can be reproduced asseen below. The design must firstbe carefully drawn on suitablepaper, in clear and perfectly cor-rect lines. This drawing mustnext be pasted on the back of apiece of plate glass, of the bestquality, 7/2 inches by 13 inchesin size. In order to paint on theglass it will be necessary to have somemeans of standing it in an upright position ;as the work on glass must be perfectly e.\ the large surface a flat painters brushwill be required, in order to have the colorsmooth and even; but for smaller spaces,and all of the lines, a fine pointed pencil isthe best. It is also very important to bearin mind that no part of the work should bepainted over a second time. When this isnecessary, a new color must be used beforethe original wash is dry; so that the tintsmay show through the glass. The onlymeans of shading is by repeating the color;. but no unevenness, or inequality can be gotrid of in this way. The arabesques must next be carefullytraced with ivory black, rather duller thanis used in ordinary painting. The smoothstraight lines of the border are marked inbest quality gold, and the centre is left for aphotograph, selected to suit the taste of thedecorator. The tortoise-shell band, seenbetween the gold lines of the border, is veryeasily made. It is washed over with as-phaltum, dry, like the ivory black, and puton with a broad flat brush. The spots areimitated by bearing heavily on the brushat one time, and touching very lightly at another; so that the paint is of unequalthickness throughout. The gold background is made of goldleaf neatly pasted on. Finally the wholeplate must be backed with gray cardboard;after carefully washing off the first drawingon paper. The gray color is used toheighten the effect of the tortoise-shell band. The photograph is then smoothly pastedover the sp
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