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Ether Glue

An excellent liquid glue is made by dissolving glue in nitric ether.

The ether will only dissolve a certain amount sides. The cleansing of silk is a very nice of glue, consequently the solution cannot be operation. Most of the colors are liable to made very thick. The glue thus made is be extracted with washing in hot suds, espe- about the consistency of molasses, and is cially blue and green colors. A little alum, doubly as tenacious as that made with hot dissolved in the last water that is brushed on water. If a few bits of india-rubber, cut into silk, tends to prevent the colors from running. scraps the size of buck-shot, be added, ard Alcohol and camphene, mixed together, are used for removing grease from silk.