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To Prepare Kalsomine

Kalsomine is composed of zinc white mixed with Department, has been found, by experience, water and glue sizing. The surface to which to answer on wood, brick and stone, nearly as it is applied must be clean and smooth. For well as oil paint, and is much cheaper. Slack ceilings, mix pound glue with 15 pounds bushel unslacked lime with boiling water, zinc; for walls, 1 pound glue with 15 pounds keeping it covered during the process. Strain zinc. The glue, the night before its use, it, and add a peck of salt, dissolved in warm should be soaked in water , and in the morning water; 3 pounds ground rice put in boiling liquefied on the fire.

It is difficult to prepare water, and boiled to a thin paste; pound or apply kalsomine; few painters can do so powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of successfully. Paris white is often made use clear glue, dissolved in warm water; mix of for it, but it is not the genuine article. (See next receipt.) The kalsomining mixture may be colored to almost any required tint by mixing appropriate coloring matter with it..