Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Lithographic Paper (Take To Fix Pencil or Crayon)

Take 1961. To Fix Pencil or Crayon Drawrather strong, unsized paper, and cover it ings. A convenient method of fixing pencil with a varnish composed of 120 parts starch, or crayon drawings consists in moistening the back of the sheet with a solution of bleached pared in the usual manner loses, to a great shellac in alcohol, care being taken not to extent, its pliancy, and becomes hard and have the solution either too concentrated or stiff. too thin, but such as will flow readily on the paper, making it transparent when moist, and leaving no spots behind on evaporation. In this way the drawings will become permanently fixed, and may afterward be painted in water-colors so as to produce a very excellent effect.

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