CHAP. CCXVI. Another Way to Gild Glass.
THIS second Way is altogether as fine as the o∣ther; besides, the Gilding is better coated, and less exposed to Injury.
Take a Glass and moisten it every where, you design to Gild, with Gum-Water, and lay on
The art of glass shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers ... : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English ; with an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.
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- The art of glass shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers ... : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English ; with an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours.
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- Haudicquer de Blancourt, Jean, b. ca. 1650.
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- 1699.
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- Glass manufacture -- Early works to 1800.
- Enamel and enameling -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of glass shewing how to make all sorts of glass, crystal and enamel : likewise the making of pearls, precious stones, china and looking-glasses : to which is added, the method of painting on glass and enameling : also how to extract the colours from minerals, metals, herbs and flowers ... : illustrated with proper sculptures / written originally in French, by Mr. H. Blancourt, and now first translated into English ; with an appendix, containing exact instructions for making glass-eyes of all colours." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43083.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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your Leaf-Gold, letting it dry; this done, run the Gold over with Water wherein Borax has been dis∣solved, and so dust it with impalpable powder of Glass; set it afterwards by degrees into your Fur∣nace, until it become red hot, and the powder on the Gilding be melted and run; then draw it out leisure∣ly, letting it cool at the Mouth of the Furnace, and you'll have your Glass very finely Gilded, so that nothing in Nature can spoil it, unless it be broken.
Or you may Gild on Glass with Linseed-Oyl, &c. as in Chap. 198. after the same manner as on China, but the Ways we have just now given, are so fine, that we look upon them to be more excellent; such as would make a choice may work by Directions in this present Chapter.