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Japanners' Gilding

The surface is covered with oil size thinned with changing its color; replace it in a perpendicuspirits of turpentine, and gold in powder lar position, and let it rest for 24 hours, (see No. 2517) is gently dabbed on with a puff having first stopped up the upper orifice with of wash-leather. This gives the appearance a cork. The liquid will then be divided into of frosted gold. A coating of varnish is next two parts-the darkest coloring being undergiven, followed by a gentle heat in the stove. neath. To separate them, take out the cork and let the dark liquid flow out; when it has commonly applied to the gilding of paper, disappeared, stop the tube immediately with vellum, &c., by applying leaf gold to the surface previously prepared with a coating of gum water, size, or white of egg. It may be burnished with an agate.