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Colored Japan

For colored works no japan is used, but they are painted with ordinary painters' colors, ground with linseed oil or turpentine, and mixed with Japanning is a kind of varnishing anime varnish; and the work is dried in the or lacquering, practiced in perfection by oven in the same manner as the black japan. the Japanese, whence the name. The only To protect the colors, and give brilliancy and Japanese, whence the name.

The only To protect the colors, and give brilliancy and difference between varnishing and japanning durability to the surface, the work is afteris that after the application of every coat of wards varnished with copal or anime varnish, color or varnish, the object so varnished is placed in an oven or chamber called a stove, at as high a temperature as can safely be employed without injuring the articles or causing the varnish to blister or run. 3019. To Prepare Metal for Japanning. Metal requires no other preparation than cleaning with turpentine, to free it from grease or oil, unless the latter should happen to be linseed oil, in which case the cleaning is generally dispensed with, and the articles are placed in the stove and heated until the oil is baked quite hard. 3020. To Prepare Wood for Japanning. Wood that is intended to be used for the best japanned work, requires to be thoroughly dried before it is made up, otherwise it will be subject to all the evils of shrinking, warping, and splitting, when exposed to the heat of the stove. To avoid these evils, the wood, after having been well seasoned in the usual manner, by exposure to the air, is sawa out nearly to the required forms, and baked for several days in the japanner's stove, the heat of which is gradually increased; and the wood is afterwards worked up into chairs, tables, trays, and similar articles, which are afterwards again exposed to the heat of the made without dryers. 2 or 3 coats of varnish suffice for ordinary works, and 5 or 6 for the best works that are polished. Very pale varnish is of course required for light colors. jects in the usual manner, after the general Ornamental devices are painted on the obcolor of the ground has been laid on. colors are dried in the stove, and the work is finally varnished and polished just the same as plain colors, but more carefully.

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