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Gilding on Glass

Mix powder- ished silver, copper, brass, &c., may be gilded gold (see No. 2517) with thick gum-arabic ed by the direct application of gold leaf to and powdered borax. With this trace the de- the surface heated to a bluish tint, pressing sign on the glass, and then bake it in a hot it on gently and carefully with the burnisher. oven. Thus the gum is burnt, and the borax This process is repeated until the proper i; vitrified, at the same time the gold is fixed thickness and tone is attained. Then it is on the glass. polished with the burnisher and colored at the Monograms and names may thus be gilded stove. on glass or china.