. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. Old Methods On Old Workand Old Methods as for seals, broad and narrow borders offlowers (see fig. 164), beasts, and little birds,or dragons, with necks and tails coiled to-gether. They must not be engraved toodeeply, but moderately, and with care. Thenthou thinnest out silver as long as thou need-est; and much thinner than for repousse work, and thou dostclean it with powderedcharcoal, and with acloth dost polish it withchalk scraped over themetal. This done fixthou the silver plateover any border, andhavin
. Silverwork and jewelery; a text-book for students and workers in metal, by H. Wilson. Old Methods On Old Workand Old Methods as for seals, broad and narrow borders offlowers (see fig. 164), beasts, and little birds,or dragons, with necks and tails coiled to-gether. They must not be engraved toodeeply, but moderately, and with care. Thenthou thinnest out silver as long as thou need-est; and much thinner than for repousse work, and thou dostclean it with powderedcharcoal, and with acloth dost polish it withchalk scraped over themetal. This done fixthou the silver plateover any border, andhaving laid the iron up-on the anvil with thesculptured side upper-most, and having laidthe silver over the sculpture, place a thickpiece of lead over the silver, strike stronglywith the hammer, so that the lead may im-pinge on the thin silver and drive it so for-cibly into the sculpture that every trace ofit may be clearly seen. If the plate be longer than the mould draw it from place to place, and hold it evenly on the iron with the pincers, so that when one part has been struck up 270. another may be struck, and so on, until On Oldthe plate has been filled up. This work Workis useful enough when thou art making ^ , lborders for altar tables, for pulpits, forshrines for the bodies of the saints, for thecovers of books, and in whatever placesthe work may be needed. When therelief is suitable and slight it is easilydone. Thou canst do likewise with coppersimilarly thinned, gilded, and laid on the iron, gilt side down-wards, the lead is laid over it, and ham-mered until the pattern is visible. Theimage of the crucified Lord is also en-graved in iron, as described above, andbeing stamped on silver or gilt copper,they make therewith phylacteries or reli-quaries and little shrines of the image of the Lamb of God is alsocarved in iron, and the figures of the fourEvangelists. The impresses of these ongold or silver are used to decorate bowlsof precious wood, the
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