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To Paste Parchment Paper

the engraving with drawing pins on a smooth Thick, smooth paper does not generally hold board, and cover it thinly with common salt, long when pasted together or on wood. This finely powdered; pour and squeeze lemon difficulty is easily overcome. If the surface juice upon this salt, so as to dissolve a conof that part of the paper which is to be joined siderable portion of it. Now elevate one end be first moistened with alcohol or brandy, and of the board, that it may form an angle of the glue or paste then be applied, the union about 45° with the horizon. Pour lastly on will be perfect. A piece of very thin paper the engraving boiling water from a tea-kettle, inserted between the surfaces of the parchment paper will also make a firm joint. Glue or paste should be used, as gum-arabic will not answer. until the salt and lemon juice be all washed off; the engraving will then appear perfectly clean, and free from stains. It must be dried gradually, on the same board, or on some smooth surface. (Sec Nos. 411, &c.) 1973. To Clean Printed Paper and Picture Prints. Septimus Piesse gives the 1967. New Method of Making Parchment Paper. An improved method of preparing this substance, consists in using the commercial oil of vitriol in an undiluted state. following receipt for that purpose: Fasten The paper is first passed through a solution of the paper to a board with button drawing alum, and thoroughly dried, previous to its pins, then wash it with water in which is immersion, thus preventing any undue action dissolved an ounce of carbonate of ammonia of the corrosive principle of the vitriol. After to every pint of water. This do with care, the application of the acid, the paper is passed employing a camel's-hair brush for the purinto a vat of water, and then through an alka- pose. Then rinse the paper well with plenty line bath, to be again washed. Written and of fresh water. When dry, repeat the same printed paper may undergo this improved pro- process for the reverse side of the paper. cess without materially affecting the clearness Now wet the paper with water made sour and distinctness of the letters, and the paper with white vinegar. Finally wet the paper retains all its qualities, even after being wetted with water containing a little bleaching powseveral times in succession, while paper pre- der, and again rinse with clean water; then dry it by exposure to air and sunshine. It ployed for woolens, after being freed from dirt will become white, excepting where printed. and grease; but more quickly as follows: To stiffen the print give it a coat of parchment size. Most valuable prints have been thus restored.

1974. To Transfer Engravings to Paper. Place the engraving a few seconds over the vapor of iodine. Dip a slip of white paper in a weak solution of starch, and, when dry, in a weak solution of oil of vitriol. When again dry, lay a slip upon the engraving, and place both for a few minutes under a press.

The engraving will be reproduced in all its delicacy and finish. 1975. To Print Engravings on Plaster. Cover the engraved plate with ink, and polish its surface in the usual way; then put a wall of paper round it, and, when completed, pour in some finely-powdered plaster of Paris mixed in water; jerk the plate repeatedly, to allow the air bubbles to fly upwards, and let it stand 1 hour; then take the cast off the plate, and a very perfect impression will be the result.