. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 31.—Original Design for Candle-holder with minor or plainmetal in centre. The stars and leaves in low relief, while theflowers and owl in higher relief. is only just beginning to be valued, so used have we becometo the highly polished plate of commerce. The best metal to beat is copper, as it is very tough and E ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. elastic. Brass is harder, and therefore more brittle. Silveris pleasartfer than brass to work in, but more brittle thancopper. Steel is used, and Mr. Fisher worked a chatelainebelt in it which is given elsewhere. Pewter was frequ
. Art crafts for amateurs . No. 31.—Original Design for Candle-holder with minor or plainmetal in centre. The stars and leaves in low relief, while theflowers and owl in higher relief. is only just beginning to be valued, so used have we becometo the highly polished plate of commerce. The best metal to beat is copper, as it is very tough and E ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. elastic. Brass is harder, and therefore more brittle. Silveris pleasartfer than brass to work in, but more brittle thancopper. Steel is used, and Mr. Fisher worked a chatelainebelt in it which is given elsewhere. Pewter was frequentlyused by the seventeenth and eighteenth century craftsmen,and Mr. Ashbee has used pewter very effectively for electro-. No. 32.—Mirror Frame in Repousse Copper. The design is beatenin, the reverse of the majority of examples given. (Fivemiletown,Co. Tyrone.) Hers. It is softer than copper, and can be beaten pewter plates beat up very well, and as they are to bepicked up reasonably they should be tried. I have seensome wrought by Mr. Gilbert Marks which were veryeffective. No. 46 is a good example of beaten is a method of eating away a portion of the copper BEATEN ME TA L IVOR K OR REPOUSSE. 51 with nitric acid and either leaving the parts not acided, orbeating them up slightly so as to give them further edges of the design left in relief by the acid should bepunched round, so as to mark it through at the back, andthis alone gives further relief to the pattern. You mighttransfer your design to the metal and then paint over withBrunswick black the portions not to be eaten away. Whenthis is quite hard, pour the acid upon it. If it were a tray, thenyou have only to cove
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