Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts

Ten thousand receipts from the great Victorian household compendium — cookery, brewing, dyeing, gilding, fireworks, medicine, farriery and the rest of the useful arts, in one volume.

Engraving

12 receipts in this part of Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts.

Ography

Take a plate of glass, and spread on it ordinary glue, to which bichromate of potash and a small quantity of nitrate of silver has been…

Engraving (Different modes of engraving)

THE different modes of engraving are the fol- ❘ of excelling in quality. In producing a plate lowing : 1. In strokes cut through a thin…

Line Engraving

So called because the result is produced by a combination of lines of various sizes, forms, lengths and textures, is the most beautiful and…

Engraving (Take a ball of etching ground)

Take a ball of etching ground, break it into pieces of convenient size, place them in a bottle, and pour on sulphuric ether. If too thick…

Mezzotinto Engraving

So called from the circumstance that the subjects treated by this method in the earliest period after its invention, were such as admitted…

To Engrave on Wood

The block is commonly made of pear-tree or box, and differs in thickness according to its size. The surface for the engraving is on the…

Engravings

In commencing to restore an engraving, some attention must be given to the kind of injury it has suffered. A general brown color more or…

Lithography (May be added and when)

may be added, and when the bleaching is effected | treatment; but it must be borne in mind that the prints should be well washed with fresh…

Lithography (To Write and Engrave on Stone)

To Write and Engrave on Stone. The stone used in lithography is a limestone (carbonate of limestone), of very hard and comcarbonate of…

Nature Printing (Three Different Methods)

Three Different Methods of Printing from Stone. In the chemical printing-office at Vienna, 3 different methods are employed, but that…

Nature Printing (If the original be a plant)

If the original be a plant, a flower, or an insect, a texture, or in short, any lifeless object whatever, it is passed between a copper…

Nature Printing (Lead plate If the colors)

the lead plate. If the colors are applied to this ❘ continued for half an hour or more with advan stamped lead plate, as in printing a…

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