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160 THE ARTIST's ASSISTANT.
in which there is a rivalfhip betwixt ourfelves and
the French, renders the cultivation and propaga-
tion of this art of great importance to commerce. I
{hail therefore be more explicit in fhewing the me-
thods both now and formerly in ufe ; with the ap-
plication of each to the feveral purpofes to which
they are beft adapted; and point out, at the fame
time, feveral very material improvements, that are
at prefent enjoyed only by particular perfons; or
not at all hitherto brought into practice.
The fubftances which admit of being japanned are
aimoft every kind that are dry and rigid, and not too
flexible; as wood, metals, leather, and paper pre-
pared.
Wood and metals do not require any other prepa-
ration, but to have their furfaces perfectly even
and clean. But leather fhould be fecurely {train-
ed either on frames, or on boards; as its bend-
ing, or foaming folds, would otherwife crack and
force off* the coats of varnifli. Paper alfo fhould
be treated in the fame manner, and have a previous
ftrong coat of fome kind of fize; but it is rarely
made the fubject of japanning till it is converted in-
to papier mache, or wrought by other means, into
fuch form, that its original ftate, particularly with
refpect to flexibility, is loft.
One principal variation in the manner of japan-
ning is, the ufing or omitting any priming or under
coat on the work to be japanned. In the older prac-
tice, fuch priming was always ufed; and is at pre-
fent retained in the French manner of japanning
coaches and fnufF boxes of the papier mache. But
in the Birmingham manufacture, it has been always
rejected. The advantage of ufmg fuch priming or
under
in which there is a rivalfhip betwixt ourfelves and
the French, renders the cultivation and propaga-
tion of this art of great importance to commerce. I
{hail therefore be more explicit in fhewing the me-
thods both now and formerly in ufe ; with the ap-
plication of each to the feveral purpofes to which
they are beft adapted; and point out, at the fame
time, feveral very material improvements, that are
at prefent enjoyed only by particular perfons; or
not at all hitherto brought into practice.
The fubftances which admit of being japanned are
aimoft every kind that are dry and rigid, and not too
flexible; as wood, metals, leather, and paper pre-
pared.
Wood and metals do not require any other prepa-
ration, but to have their furfaces perfectly even
and clean. But leather fhould be fecurely {train-
ed either on frames, or on boards; as its bend-
ing, or foaming folds, would otherwife crack and
force off* the coats of varnifli. Paper alfo fhould
be treated in the fame manner, and have a previous
ftrong coat of fome kind of fize; but it is rarely
made the fubject of japanning till it is converted in-
to papier mache, or wrought by other means, into
fuch form, that its original ftate, particularly with
refpect to flexibility, is loft.
One principal variation in the manner of japan-
ning is, the ufing or omitting any priming or under
coat on the work to be japanned. In the older prac-
tice, fuch priming was always ufed; and is at pre-
fent retained in the French manner of japanning
coaches and fnufF boxes of the papier mache. But
in the Birmingham manufacture, it has been always
rejected. The advantage of ufmg fuch priming or
under