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ss="indx">Glass-mending, with allied processes, 33-49;
  • old proverb on, 33
  • Glass-powder, 136;
  • how to prepare, 27
  • Glass, to pulverise, 234
  • Glazed or patent leather, how to make, 193
  • Glaze-mediums, 228
  • Gloves, how cleaned, 238
  • Glue, 4;
  • and lime cement, 41;
  • for coarse work, 235;
  • waterproof, 186
  • Glycerine, in cements, 6;
  • with glue, 68
  • Gomme laque, or shellac, 249
  • Goupil, F., Manual of Mending, 32, 64, 218, 222, 225
  • Grease-spots, to remove, 92
  • Green, Dr. Samuel A., on book-worms, 115
  • Grinding off fractures in glass, 48
  • Ground for wax-painting, 228, 229
  • Grounds of pictures, 221
  • Guards for mending broken fictile wares, 31, 32
  • Gum for general use, 243
  • Gum-mastic, 16, 22
  • Gum (or starch), 2, 3
  • Gutta-percha and oil cement for mending soles, 192
  • Gutta-percha cement for leather, 189
  • Gypsum, 6
  • Hard cement for all wood, 80
  • Harness, saddle, and bridle repairing, 193
  • Hats, blankets, &c., to mend by felting, 199-201
  • Heating wood before glueing, 60
  • Heigelin, Professor, exhibition of flowers made from shavings, 68
  • Hide, raw, 189
  • Hildebrand, Wolfgang, on liquid glass, 7, 35, 148
  • Hofer, Johannes, 142
  • Hofer, Raimund, on indiarubber, 159, 168
  • Holding together broken china while mending, &c., 17
  • Holes in leather repaired with linen, 161
  • Horn, to mould or soften, 148, 251
  • Hubbard, Ernst, “The rendering Valuable of Refuse Wood,” by, 69
  • Hyatt’s patent ivory, 153
  • Hydraulic lime, 8
  • Ignorance, general, as to cleaning pictures, 212
  • Imitation indiarubber cl ndx">Ox-gall in cleaning pictures, 218
  • Oxidised cement, 176
  • Page, the American painter, 210
  • Pages in books, to repair when torn, 90, 91, 94
  • Paget’s French mastic, 136
  • Pamphlets, binding, 100
  • Panel pictures, repairing, with shavings, 57;
  • fourteenth century, in distemper, &c., 227
  • Panel, warped, how to straighten a, 228
  • Panels of artificial wood, 81;
  • cements for, 82
  • Paper and wood-shavings, 52
  • Paper, its composition, 86, 87;
  • repairing damaged paper, 86, 87
  • Paper-leather, 129, 130
  • Papier-mÂchÉ, or softened paper, 106, 121-133;
  • articles made from, 121;
  • moulding, 121, 122
  • Paracelsus, 35
  • Parchment paper, how to prepare, 95, 96
  • Parchment, repairing, 122;
  • artificial, from paper, 122
  • Parland, Mr., 128
  • Paste of starch or flour, 10
  • Paste, leather, the same mixed with indiarubber, 185;
  • use and preparation, &c., 186
  • Paste, bookbinders’, 96;
  • shoemakers’, 197
  • Patches, inserting, 201
  • Patterns cut from wood-shavings (engraving), 51-53
  • Pavements, to repair different kinds, 28
  • Peat, 78
  • Philatius, the inventor of book-binding and glue, 99
  • Pictures, restoring, 210-230;
  • glazed and scaling, how to treat, 226
  • Plaster of Paris, alum, and glass cement, 141
  • Plugging teeth with indiarubber, 166
  • Polytechnic cement and imperial liquid glue, also Keye’s cement, 39
  • Porcelain, 18
  • Potatoes as cement, &c., 9
  • Pots, cracks in iron, 180
  • Prepare, to, wood for paint, 83
  • Process of restoring worn and injured binding of a book, and of a bas-relief in leather, 183-185
  • Proper paste, the, for wallpaper, waterproof, 164, 165
  • Pulp, paper, 130-133
  • Putty, 33,

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