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240 THE ARTIST'S ASSISTANT.
Whicfi are lefs than require others to cover them ;
the leaves which are to be ufed, titiift he fir ft turned
from the paper upon the cufnion ; they miili thefi
be cut into fuch divifions, or flips as mav be com-
modioufly laid out on the parts of the work to be
covered ; after which, being feparated, and taken up
as ihey are wanted, bv means of the cotton woo!, to
which, being breathed upon, they will adhere, they
muft be laid in the places they are defigned to cover,
and gently preffed with the cotton, till they touch
every where, and lie even on the ground.
here the work is very hollow, and fmall pieces
are wanted to cover parts that lie deep and out of
the reach of the fquirreTs tail, or the cotton, they
may be taken up bv the point of a fitch pencil, (being
hrit breathed upon) and bv that means conveyed to
and fettled in their proper place. Thofe who are ac-
cuftomed to it, ufe the the pencil commodioullv, for
a great part of the work, where large parts of the
leaves cannot be ufed.
Ffj-e whole of the work be!n<r thus covered, fhould
he fuflcrcd to remain till it he drv, and it mav then
be brufhed over by a camel's hair pencil, or foft
hog's hair brufh, to take off from it all loofe parts
of the gold.
If, after the brufhing, any defective parts, or va-
cancies appear m the gilding, fuch parts muft be
again lized, and treated in the fame manner as the
whole was before : but the iauanner's gold fiafc alone
is much better for this purpofe than either the fat oil
alone, or anv mixture.
Of burnifh gilding, with the preparation of the
proper fizes, Jfcri —The gilding with burnifhed gold
is ie'dorn pratlifed but upon wood, and. at orefent,
moftly
Whicfi are lefs than require others to cover them ;
the leaves which are to be ufed, titiift he fir ft turned
from the paper upon the cufnion ; they miili thefi
be cut into fuch divifions, or flips as mav be com-
modioufly laid out on the parts of the work to be
covered ; after which, being feparated, and taken up
as ihey are wanted, bv means of the cotton woo!, to
which, being breathed upon, they will adhere, they
muft be laid in the places they are defigned to cover,
and gently preffed with the cotton, till they touch
every where, and lie even on the ground.
here the work is very hollow, and fmall pieces
are wanted to cover parts that lie deep and out of
the reach of the fquirreTs tail, or the cotton, they
may be taken up bv the point of a fitch pencil, (being
hrit breathed upon) and bv that means conveyed to
and fettled in their proper place. Thofe who are ac-
cuftomed to it, ufe the the pencil commodioullv, for
a great part of the work, where large parts of the
leaves cannot be ufed.
Ffj-e whole of the work be!n<r thus covered, fhould
he fuflcrcd to remain till it he drv, and it mav then
be brufhed over by a camel's hair pencil, or foft
hog's hair brufh, to take off from it all loofe parts
of the gold.
If, after the brufhing, any defective parts, or va-
cancies appear m the gilding, fuch parts muft be
again lized, and treated in the fame manner as the
whole was before : but the iauanner's gold fiafc alone
is much better for this purpofe than either the fat oil
alone, or anv mixture.
Of burnifh gilding, with the preparation of the
proper fizes, Jfcri —The gilding with burnifhed gold
is ie'dorn pratlifed but upon wood, and. at orefent,
moftly