time we take them off, fold them with care, and lay them in a drawer,
they will last much longer than they do. Pure air free from dust is
as conducive to the well-being of coats as to that of their wearers,
and Dominie Sampson uttered more truth than he imagined when he
observed that the atmosphere of his patron’s dwelling was singularly
preservative of broadcloth.”
* * * * *
In proof of this it may be observed, that as a sandblast attacks some
substances exclusively, so dust or grit injures certain fabrics and not
others, and that the latter are all known as the more lasting fabrics.
INDEX
Accuracy and care required in making cements, 28
Adding art to arts, 47
Alabaster, to mend, 249
ALLSTON, the painter, 123
Alum as a base, 6
Amber, repairing and imitating, 156-158;
carving amber, 158
American cement, 240
American glaze for postage-stamps, 113, 114
ANDÉS, LOUIS EDGAR, 207, 252;
varnishes, 4;
on ivory and bone, 144, 155;
on working horn, 149
Arabic, gum, cement of, with vinegar, 37
Avoiding excess in cementing, 31
Badly bound books, 108
BAER, J., catalogue on glass, 44
Bark, powdered, combined with glue, 82
Barley cement, 249, 250
Bases for beads, &c., 234
BAYARD, MISS CATHERINE L., 158
Bell made of a bottle, 49
Bent leaves in books, or dog’s ears, 89, 90
Benzoin, gum, or _lac virginis_, 236, 237
Binding books, 97-100 (_illustrations_), 97, 98
Blood in cements, 6
Blowpipe, the, 17, 36
Boats or canoes made from shavings, 52
Boiling china in milk, 19
Bone, calcined, 92;
artificial, 251
Bookbinders’ varnish, 89;
glue, 235
Books, repairing and restoring, 86-120
Book-worms, 115-120
BÖTTGER’S cement for pavements, stone slabs, &c., 29;
acid-proof cement, 247
Bottles, cracked, how to mend, 26, 37;
to close (a cement), 44;
to cork or seal them firmly, 161;
to seal, 241
Brass-ware, to look like gold, 234, 235
Bread cement, 241-243
Bread in cements, 8
BREWSTER, Sir D., 37
Brickwork tiles, how to repair, 28
Burnished steel or iron work, 234
Canes and bows made of shavings, 54
Caoutchouc, indiarubber, gutta-percha, 2, 4, 126, 127, 159
Cardboard or pasteboard as hard as wood, how to make, 124, 125
Carpenters’ cement, 79
_Carton-cuir_, 121
_Carton-pierre_, or “stone-paper,” to make, 128
Caseine or cheese in cements, 6, 27, 40, 41, 137, 138
CASTELLANI, Signore, 48
Cat-gut, 250
Cedar, to imitate, 83
Cellular tissue, cause of hardening in organic substances, 9, 10
Celluloid, or artificial ivory, its raw materials, manufacture, &c.,
by Dr. F. BOCKMANN, 9, 152, 153
Cellulose, 9;
how discovered and made, 82;
to prepare it with acid, 154
Cement, or adhesive, definition, 1;
for broken glass or china, 23-49;
for glass, china, leather, &c., 34;
for wood, 76-83;
for horses’ hoofs, 166, 167;
to attach metal, 173, 174
Ceresa, or mosaic in powder, 29, 138
Chalk, 2
Chamois-leather in repairs, 203
Chemical apparatus, cement for, 244
Chestnut, horse, paste, 243
China, broken, porcelain, crockery, majolica, terra-cotta, brick and
tile work, 12-32
Chinese transparent vases, a lost art rediscovered, 47, 48
Chloride of zinc cement, 241
Cholula, vase from, 13, 14
Chrome glue, 26, 34
_Chunam_, or Indian shell-lime, 24, 134
Circles, to draw, 103
Clamps, or strips of sheet-iron or wire, 67
CLAUDE and VANDERVELDE, 216, 217
CLAUS’S cement for metal and glass, 182
Clay and molasses mortar, 246
Closing wine-bottles, old method, 48, 49
Cloth-dust on gum in decoration, 236
Cloth, waterproofed, recipe for, 161;
felt, how to make, 199, 200
Clothes, to properly dust and keep clean, 252, 253
Coarse cements for brick, &c., 139
Cobbling and shoemaking, 187, 188
Cologne, eau de, 237
Concrete, 140
Copal, gum, 157
Coral, imitation of, 209
Corks, to improve, 240
Cracking of seasoned wood in America, 50
Cracks in furniture, filling, 67
CRANE, WALTER, 24
Crockery, 17, 18
Crockery or china, mosaic made from broken fragments, 139
Cups and vases of _papier-maché_, how to make (_illustration_), 172
DAVIDOWSKY, F., on glue and gelatine, 4
Decayed wood, to restore, 63
_Decorator, The_, 73
Defacing books, 90
DELILLE, alleged inventor of wiring porcelain, 18
Deterioration in pictures, causes of, 214, 215
Dextrine, or _Leiokom_, 7;
gum, 238
Diamond cement, 41. (_Vide_ Turkish)
DILLAYE, F., 32
DILLAYE’S cement, 249
Dirt in old pictures, its nature, 215
Domes or arched roofs, building, 64
DRAKE, Sir W., 47
Drawers, to put handles to, 62;
shrinking of them, 62, 63
Dry cleaning, 220
DÜRER, ALBERT, 151
Dusting broken china, 31
Earthenware tubes, how to lute, 27
Ebonite, 160
Ebony, repairing or imitating, 66, 67
EDER’S gum for photographs, 114
Eggs in cements, 5
“Egyptian Sketch-Book,” 210
Elmworm silk, 250
Embossing leather, 100
Engraving and etching glass or china, 38
Erasures in paper, 103
Essential oils in cleaning pictures, 225
Etruscan vases repaired, 15
Excess of cleaning and ignorance as to effects by age, 214
Fastening broken furniture, 60, 61
Fictile or ceramic ware, 12
FIELD, “Chromatography” 210
Fillers for wood, 69
Fire-proof paper, 103
Floors laid with shavings, 53
Flour and starch paste, 4, 5
Flour-paste, to make a strong, 112
Flowers made from wood-shavings and plaster of Paris, glue, &c., 68
Fluid paste, 247
Flour spar cement, 237
Flux, vitreous or metallic, 17
Forgeries in antiques, 94, 149
French glue for wood, 80
French glues, 248
Furniture, cheap and bad, 58
Furniture-making, 72
GARMAN, SAMUEL, 116
Garments, invisible mending of, 202-205
Gelatine and vinegar cement for china, 25
General cements, 244
GERNER, RAIMUND, _Die Glas Fabrikation_, by, 34, 35
Gesso-painting, 24
Glass-mending, with allied processes, 33-49;
old proverb on, 33
Glass-powder, 136;
how to prepare, 27
Glass, to pulverise, 234
Glazed or patent leather, how to make, 193
Glaze-mediums, 228
Gloves, how cleaned, 238
Glue, 4;
and lime cement, 41;
for coarse work, 235;
waterproof, 186
Glycerine, in cements, 6;
with glue, 68
_Gomme laque_, or shellac, 249
GOUPIL, F., Manual of Mending, 32, 64, 218, 222, 225
Grease-spots, to remove, 92
GREEN, Dr. SAMUEL A., on book-worms, 115
Grinding off fractures in glass, 48
Ground for wax-painting, 228, 229
Grounds of pictures, 221
Guards for mending broken fictile wares, 31, 32
Gum for general use, 243
Gum-mastic, 16, 22
Gum (or starch), 2, 3
Gutta-percha and oil cement for mending soles, 192
Gutta-percha cement for leather, 189
Gypsum, 6
Hard cement for all wood, 80
Harness, saddle, and bridle repairing, 193
Hats, blankets, &c., to mend by felting, 199-201
Heating wood before glueing, 60
HEIGELIN, Professor, exhibition of flowers made from shavings, 68
Hide, raw, 189
HILDEBRAND, WOLFGANG, on liquid glass, 7, 35, 148
HOFER, JOHANNES, 142
HOFER, RAIMUND, on indiarubber, 159, 168
Holding together broken china while mending, &c., 17
Holes in leather repaired with linen, 161
Horn, to mould or soften, 148, 251
HUBBARD, ERNST, “The rendering Valuable of Refuse Wood,” by, 69
HYATT’S patent ivory, 153
Hydraulic lime, 8
Ignorance, general, as to cleaning pictures, 212
Imitation indiarubber cloth, 167
Imperfect work, 107, 108
Indiarubber, applied to soles of shoes, 161;
or vulcanised cement, 162
Indifferent substances, 6
Ink-stains, to remove, 90-94, 96
Inserting pieces in china, &c., 19, 20
Iron cements to resist heat, 177, 178
Iron doors of furnaces, how to seal hermetically, 179
Iron in cements, 6
Iron strips and bands in repairing, 171
Iron, to set in stone, 178
Iron ware, or block cement, 180
Ironwork, setting a cement for, 176
Italian peasants’ shoes (_illustration_), 192
Ivory, repairing and imitating, 143-155;
cleaning, 143, 144;
imitations, 144;
staining, 147, 148;
softening, 148
Jewellers’ cement, 43. (_Vide_ Turkish)
Jewellers’ or Diamond cement, 174
Jewesses, repair of embroidery by, 202
_Joco-Seriorum Naturæ et Artis_,
1670, story from, referring to broken pottery, 20, 21, 35.
Join, to, glass and metal, 43
Joints in timbers, holes and cracks, how to close, 80
JUNEMANN, F., _Die Fabrikation des Alauns_, 6
Kaleidoscope, folding, how to make a, 37, 38
Kauri, the gum, 156, 157
Kelp, 154
_Kettenstich_, for German chain-stitch, 204
KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS, 92, 95
Knotting, patent, 72-74
KOPPE, J. W., on glycerine, 6
KRALL, BARKENTIN &, brass-cleaner, 235
KRATZER, HARRMANN, on liquid glass, 8
Lacquers, 34
LAYARD, Sir AUSTIN, 47
Lead pencil or crayon drawings, to protect, 233
Leather, artificial, 196, 198
Leather, durability of, 188, 189
Leather-glue, 197
Leather-Work, Manual of, 111
Leather-work, repairing, 183-198
LEHNER, 2, 5, 7, 9, 26, 28, 29, 31, 34, 40, 44, 77, 79, 80, 135, 136,
141, 144, 152, 157, 193, 197, 207, 208
LELAND, CHARLES G., quotation from, 50
Lemon-juice to whiten the hands, 236
Lime, 5, 24, 134
Lime cement for glass, 43
Liquid acid glue, 59, 60;
recipe for, 81
LISTER, MISS ROMA, 203;
MS. of Recipes, 65
Litharge cements for many uses, 175
LUTHER, MARTIN, 149
Luting cement, 235
Luting or closing chemical apparatus, &c., cements for, 30
Magnesia, calcined, to extract stains, 238
Majolica, 13, 15, 16
Malleable glass, 38
_Manuel Général du Modelage_, 64
Marble, fractures, &c., in, 140;
how to clean, 238;
to mend, 249
Marine glue, hard glue, recipe and description, 162, 163
Marking-ink, 237
Marquetry, or inlaid wood, repairing, 71, 72, 83-85
Mastic, 19, 135, 136;
French mastic, 136
Materials used in mending, 1-11
Meerschaum pipes, to mend or make, 240
Mending cloth with indiarubber, 165-168
Mending furniture, 74-76
Mending or repairing defined, 1, 2
MERRICK’S acid-proof cement, 246
MERRITT, HENRY, 211, 221
Metal, to attach leather to, 193
Metal-work, mending, 169-182
Metallic corners for books (_illustrations_), 104-106
Mica, leaves of, how to prepare them for windows, 47
MIERZINSKI, Dr. STANISLAUS, on the manufacture of paper, 132
Minor ingredients in cements, 10
Mirror with ornaments (_illustration_), 85
MOGFORD, HENRY, 213, 218, 219-222
Mosaics, 134
Mother-of-pearl and coral, mending, 206-209;
how imitated, 207;
from rice, 208
Mould or mildew in pictures, 226
Mouth-glue, or solid cement, 239, 240
Musical glasses of different kinds, 39
Musical instruments repaired with shavings, 54, 55
Neutral substances in cements, 6
Oil, as a basis, 2;
combination, 3;
softening paint, 219
Old recipes for mending crockery, 23 _et seq._
OLYMPIODORUS, 99
“One Hundred Arts,” a book by the Author, 38
Ornamenting panes for windows, and doubling them, 44 45;
beautiful and varied effects, 46
Ornamental work made of shavings, 56, 57
Ox-gall in cleaning pictures, 218
Oxidised cement, 176
PAGE, the American painter, 210
Pages in books, to repair when torn, 90, 91, 94
PAGET’S French mastic, 136
Pamphlets, binding, 100
Panel pictures, repairing, with shavings, 57;
fourteenth century, in distemper, &c., 227
Panel, warped, how to straighten a, 228
Panels of artificial wood, 81;
cements for, 82
Paper and wood-shavings, 52
Paper, its composition, 86, 87;
repairing damaged paper, 86, 87
Paper-leather, 129, 130
_Papier-mâché_, or softened paper, 106, 121-133;
articles made from, 121;
moulding, 121, 122
PARACELSUS, 35
Parchment paper, how to prepare, 95, 96
Parchment, repairing, 122;
artificial, from paper, 122
PARLAND, Mr., 128
Paste of starch or flour, 10
Paste, leather, the same mixed with indiarubber, 185;
use and preparation, &c., 186
Paste, bookbinders’, 96;
shoemakers’, 197
Patches, inserting, 201
Patterns cut from wood-shavings (_engraving_), 51-53
Pavements, to repair different kinds, 28
Peat, 78
PHILATIUS, the inventor of book-binding and glue, 99
Pictures, restoring, 210-230;
glazed and scaling, how to treat, 226
Plaster of Paris, alum, and glass cement, 141
Plugging teeth with indiarubber, 166
Polytechnic cement and imperial liquid glue, also KEYE’S cement, 39
Porcelain, 18
Potatoes as cement, &c., 9
Pots, cracks in iron, 180
Prepare, to, wood for paint, 83
Process of restoring worn and injured binding of a book, and of a
bas-relief in leather, 183-185
Proper paste, the, for wallpaper, waterproof, 164, 165
Pulp, paper, 130-133
Putty, 33, 34, 69
RAUFER, G. M., on meerschaum and amber, 158
Raw hide, 233
Recipe, old, for repairing glass, 36, 37;
definition of, 231;
general, 231-253
Red cement for iron, 237
Reliefs cut in brick, 29
Repainting old pictures, 226, 227
Repairing wood with paper-pulp, 132
Resin or pitch, 2, 3
Restoring fragments of engravings, &c., 115
Rice and lime cement, 145
RIMMEL, bookseller in Oxford Street, 40
Ringing or sounding glasses by blowing on them, 39
RIS-PACQUOT, M., 18, 29, 147
Riveting sheet-metal, 169, 170
Roller, use of the, 54
Roman and Hungarian pottery, &c., 12
Roman cement, 24;
for fine mosaics, 138
Rosewood stain, 74
Rubbing in colour, 14
RUPRECHT, KARL, on egg substances and albumen, 5
RUSKIN, 221
Rust, how removed, 234
Rust or oxide cement, 177
SALLE’S cement for glass, 44
Satin gloss for paper, 248, 249
Sawdust (_vide_ also Wood-paste or artificial wood), 80
SCHEIBLER’S cement, 244
SCHLOSSER, EDMUND, on soldering and metal-work, 182
SCHWARTZ’S iron cement, 180
Scissors, cutting glass with, 48
Scraping varnish, 223
Screws, to be dipped in oil or boiling wax, 67
Seams, to repair, 196
SEDNA, LUDWIG, on wax, &c., 7
Sewing or stitching books, 109
Shoes, easily made, 194, 195;
indiarubber, to repair, 160
Side-binding, 110
Silicate of soda, or liquid glass, 7, 20;
with colour, 29, 33, 35
Silico-enamel, 237, 238
Silk or woolen cloth, to clean, 232, 233
Silks, black, gummed, 205
Silkworm gum, 250
Silver bands, 20
Snail cement, 249
Soaps in cleaning pictures, 224
Solder, NEWTON’S and ROSE’S, a metallic glass, 181
Soldering, 171, 172, 180, 181
Soles, wooden, for shoes, 191
SOREL’S cement, 244
South Sea Bubble, 58
Spirits of wine to remove dry varnish, 219
Splicing broken rods, spars, &c. (_with illustration_), 61
Spraying, to restore crumbling substances by, 146, 147
Staining or colouring wood, 69, 70
Stains, grease, wine, oil, to remove, 232
Stationer’s paste, 247
Statues, mending, of plaster of Paris, 141
Steam, to clean pictures by, 223
STEVENS’ and MANDERS’ wood-stains, 70
Stills, to lute, 245
STOHMANN, classification of cements, with LEHNER’S extension of it, 2, 3
Stonework, mending, 134-142
Stopper, glass, filed to shape, 48
Stoves, cement for, 179, 182
Strips or braces on panels, &c., 61, 62
Strong adhesives for paper, &c., 113, 114
Strong cement, for glass, wood, or stone, 42;
for porcelain, glass, &c., 26, 136
Strop, leather, how to mend a, 186, 187
Sturgeon’s bladder or fish-glue gum, &c., 5, 32, 42
Syndetikon, 243
Tapestry glue, 245
Tarred or tarpaulin paper-bags, 163
_Tausendkünstler_ of 1782, 23
Tea-leaves, 243
Terra-cotta, 12, 13, 15
To preserve the contents of bottles when broken, 167
To protect wood under water, 79
Tortoise-shell or horn, cement for, 250
Toys, mending, 122, 123
Tragacanth, gum, 8
Transferring pictures, 225
Travellers’ glue, 247
Trees: bark, splits or cavities in, 82;
to protect, 248
Triangles of tin, &c., used to fasten panes of glass, 35
_Tribune_, the New York, 60
Trunks, mending, 190
Tufa cement, 235
Turkish or diamond cement, 19, 41, 42
Turpentine, a counteracting medium of solvent spirit, 220
ULENHUTH, EDUARD, on moulding, 131
VANDYKE, picture by, 222
VAN HELMONT on liquid glass, 7
Varnish, 3, 34;
to remove, 216-220
Veneers, 51, 53
Venetian marquetry, 71
Venetian glass, 36
_Venus mercernaria_, or American clam, 208
Vermin in wooden dwellings, 246
VINCI, LEONARDO DA, 151
Vinegar, commonly made from sulphuric acid, 60
Vitreous paint, 40
WAGNER, R., on liquid glass, 7, 8, 35
WALLBERGER, JOHANN, _Zauberbuch_, 96, 234-236
Wall-paper of wood, used in America, 69
Wall-paper paste, 245
Wall-paper with common paste poisonous, 165
Walls rendered air-tight (recipe), 164
Warped or curved wood, and how to flatten it, 61, 62
Washing broken china for repairing, 31
Water in cleaning pictures, 216-218
Waterproof carpets and wall-covering made from waste-paper, 191
Waterproof cement, 194
Wax in cements, 7
White of egg glaze, 223
Whitewash, to make equal to paint, 79
WIEGLEB, J. C., quotation from, 1, 147
Windows, stained glass, works on the subject by A. W. FRANKS, OWEN
JONES, WESTLAKE, &c., 40
Wine-stains, to remove, 231, 232
Wire, for mending china, 19;
in repairing, 170, 171
Wire-mending, 62
Wood-ashes in picture-cleaning, 224
Wood-Carving, a Manual of, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, 70
Wood-paste, or artificial wood, 63 _et seq._;
houses can be made of it, 64
Wood-shavings in mending and making, 50-57
Woodwork, repairing, 58-85
Woollen cloth, to clean, 231
_Work_, a scientific journal, 129
Worms in wood, to exterminate, 72
Wrinkles and freckles, 236
_Zeiodeleth_, 246, 247
Zinc, a cement for, 174, 175
ZWICK, Dr. H., on lime and mortar, 5;
in _Hydraulischer Kalk und Portland Cement_, 8
THE END
FOOTNOTES:
[1] _Ceresa_ is the setting of powdered glass of different colours in a
cement bed. Mosaic cubes are often combined with it.
[2] _Vide_ “Wood-Carving,” by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, F.R.L.S., M.A.
(London, Whittaker & Co., 5s.), for a chapter on this subject.
[3] For fullest details as to the treatment of horn, the reader may
consult _Die Verarbeitung des Hornes_, &c., by LOUIS E. ANDÉS, in which
he will also find full details as to dyeing ivory.
[4] The late W. W. STORY, the sculptor and man of letters.
[5] “Handbook on the Preservation of Pictures,” by HENRY MOGFORD;
twelfth edition, revised. London: Winsor & Newton, 1s.
[Transcriber’s Note:
Obvious printer errors corrected silently.
Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]