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To Make Transfer Paper

To paper required; keep the result of each sifting prepare transfer paper, take some thin post separate. Then smooth on both sides, with or tissue paper, rub the surface well with pumice stone, any good tough paper, and black lead, vermilion, red chalk, or any color- tack it on a board; a tolerably fine quality ing matter; wipe this preparation well off of muslin is far preferable to paper. If large with a piece of clean rag, and it will be ready for use.

1927. To Make Tracing Paper with Petroleum. Saturate ordinary writing paper with petroleum by means of a brush, then wipe it off until it is dry. This makes a tracing paper equal to the manufactured article, for all ordinary purposes. It was discovered by Mr. Häusel, an architect at Neustadt.

1928. To Make Tracing Paper with Benzine. If paper be damped with pure and fresh distilled benzine, it at once assumes a transparency, and permits of the tracing being made, and of ink or water colors being shects are used it is better to glue the edges on a frame (similar to a small quilting frame), and when dry, damp the paper or muslin and stretch it, in the same manner as the muslin is strained for sized roller blinds. Give the surface a coating of strong glue size, and immediately dust the glass of the required fineness equally and thoroughly all over, using the same sieve that was used to separate it from the rest of the powdered glass. When dry, throw off the surplus glass for future use.