Workshop Reciepts Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...got rid of. Keep a basin for each colour, and when done with wash it out with clean water. The same with the sponges: keep them as clean as possible; have a sponge for each colour, and use it only for that colour. A piece of glass to put the sponges on will be of great use, and prevent the work-table or board from catching any of the colour. A damp book or damp paper laid on a board that has been so stained will most probably be damaged, even though it has waste paper between the workboard and book. No amount of washing will ever take away such a stain. When the book has been coloured, the edges and inside are blacked or browned according to taste, or in keeping with the outside. STRAW-PLAIT, MATTING, AND BASKETS.--There is so much similarity in the manufacture of these articles that they readily admit of description under a general heading. Straw-plait.--In this industry, Tuscany holds a first place. All that which is known as Leghorn or Florence straw is raised on the hills which rise on each side of the rivers Pisa and Elsa, to the south-west of Florence. It requires a particular soil; in fact, its adaptability to the uses to which it is destined depends principally on the soil in which it is sown, which to all appearance exists only in this small district, out of the bounds of which the cultivation of straw is unknown. The grain of several of the finest qualities of wheat, provided it ba of the kind that has a hollow flexible stem, can be used for seed. The soil must be tilled and prepared very much as it is for corn, but the seed must be sown 5 times ns thickly ns what is usual for other purposes, either in December cr February; in the latter case the crop is gathered later. When the straw is lull grown, and just before the grain begins to form itself ...