The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . Mosaic China Work. This pretty but antiquated china patch-worklooks really difficult, but in reality it is ex-tremely easy, as well as fascinating, to thosewho are fond of making useful and prettythings out of next lo nothing. The first thing to be done is to collect all thedainty pieces of broken china, glass, etc. Theeasiest way to get a varied selection, is to askyour friends to save their broken ware for can also ask the assistants of the chinashop you usually patronise to put by bits foryou, the owner of the shop will, no doubt, beo
The Mark Lane express, agricultural journal &c . Mosaic China Work. This pretty but antiquated china patch-worklooks really difficult, but in reality it is ex-tremely easy, as well as fascinating, to thosewho are fond of making useful and prettythings out of next lo nothing. The first thing to be done is to collect all thedainty pieces of broken china, glass, etc. Theeasiest way to get a varied selection, is to askyour friends to save their broken ware for can also ask the assistants of the chinashop you usually patronise to put by bits foryou, the owner of the shop will, no doubt, beonly too glad to get rid of them. You mustthen decide what you intend making. Largedrain pipes look famous for umbrella-stands,and for standing grasses in for the corner of aroom, or to fill up an ugly corner in a look very pretty for standing pots of fernsor flowers in. When you have chosen the articleyou mean to decorate, you must purchase somegood, soft putty, and put a layer of it over the. BAG IN BULLION EMBROIDEKY. jar or drain pipe, about half an inch thick, thenbreak your china up into small pieces indifferent shapes and sizes. Take one piece ata time, put it on the putty, and press the chinainto it; now choose another piece that matchesfairly as regards colouring to the bit alreadystuck on, press it about a quarter of an inchaway from the latter. When you have embeddedit fairly well, give it a gentle push towardsthe other piece of china, a tiny smooth roll ofputty will then stand up between the bits ofware; continue thus until you have completelycovered the article in hand. Place it to drywhere it will be free from dust for a week;then paint the little rolls of putty with somecommon yellow paint, leaving the china just asit is; when this is dry, cover the yellow paintwith a coat of Judsons gold paint. The objectof putting the common yellqw paint first, is tokeep the gold from sinking into the finish-ed, you willbe astonishedto find yourh and i
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