A Manual of Mending and Repairing; With Diagrams

by Charles Godfrey Leland

INDEX

• Accuracy and care required in making cements, [28]
• Adding art to arts, [47]
• Alabaster, to mend, [249]
• Allston, the painter, [123]
• Alum as a base, [6]
• Amber, repairing and imitating, [156-158];
• carving amber, [158]
• American cement, [240]
• American glaze for postage-stamps, [113], [114]
• Andés, Louis Edgar, [207], [252];
• varnishes, [4];
• on ivory and bone, [144], [155];
• on working horn, [149]
• Arabic, gum, cement of, with vinegar, [37]
• Avoiding excess in cementing, [31]
• Badly bound books, [108]
• Baer, J., catalogue on glass, [44]
• Bark, powdered, combined with glue, [82]
• Barley cement, [249], [250]
• Bases for beads, &c., [234]
• Bayard, Miss Catherine L., [158]
• Bell made of a bottle, [49]
• Bent leaves in books, or dog’s ears, [89], [90]
• Benzoin, gum, or lac virginis, [236], [237]
• Binding books, [97-100] (illustrations), [97], [98]
• Blood in cements, [6]
• Blowpipe, the, [17], [36]
• Boats or canoes made from shavings, [52]
• Boiling china in milk, [19]
• Bone, calcined, [92];
• artificial, [251]
• Bookbinders’ varnish, [89];
• glue, [235]
• Books, repairing and restoring, [86-120]
• Book-worms, [115-120]
• Böttger’s cement for pavements, stone slabs, &c., [29];
• acid-proof cement, [247]
• Bottles, cracked, how to mend, [26], [37];
• to close (a cement), [44];
• to cork or seal them firmly, [161];
• to seal, [241]
• Brass-ware, to look like gold, [234], [235]
• Bread cement, [241-243]
• Bread in cements, [8]
• Brewster, Sir D., [37]
• Brickwork tiles, how to repair, [28]
• Burnished steel or iron work, [234]
• Canes and bows made of shavings, [54]
• Caoutchouc, indiarubber, gutta-percha, [2], [4], [126], [127], [159]
• Cardboard or pasteboard as hard as wood, how to make, [124], [125]
• Carpenters’ cement, [79]
• Carton-cuir, [121]
• Carton-pierre, or “stone-paper,” to make, [128]
• Caseine or cheese in cements, [6], [27], [40], [41], [137], [138]
• Castellani, Signore, [48]
• Cat-gut, [250]
• Cedar, to imitate, [83]
• Cellular tissue, cause of hardening in organic substances, [9], [10]
• Celluloid, or artificial ivory, its raw materials, manufacture, &c., by Dr. F. Bockmann, [9], [152], [153]
• Cellulose, [9];
• how discovered and made, [82];
• to prepare it with acid, [154]
• Cement, or adhesive, definition, [1];
• for broken glass or china, [23-49];
• for glass, china, leather, &c., [34];
• for wood, [76-83];
• for horses’ hoofs, [166], [167];
• to attach metal, [173], [174]
• Ceresa, or mosaic in powder, [29], [138]
• Chalk, [2]
• Chamois-leather in repairs, [203]
• Chemical apparatus, cement for, [244]
• Chestnut, horse, paste, [243]
• China, broken, porcelain, crockery, majolica, terra-cotta, brick and tile work, [12-32]
• Chinese transparent vases, a lost art rediscovered, [47], [48]
• Chloride of zinc cement, [241]
• Cholula, vase from, [13], [14]
• Chrome glue, [26], [34]
• Chunam, or Indian shell-lime, [24], [134]
• Circles, to draw, [103]
• Clamps, or strips of sheet-iron or wire, [67]
• Claude and Vandervelde, [216], [217]
• Claus’s cement for metal and glass, [182]
• Clay and molasses mortar, [246]
• Closing wine-bottles, old method, [48], [49]
• Cloth-dust on gum in decoration, [236]
• Cloth, waterproofed, recipe for, [161];
• felt, how to make, [199], [200]
• Clothes, to properly dust and keep clean, [252], [253]
• Coarse cements for brick, &c., [139]
• Cobbling and shoemaking, [187], [188]
• Cologne, eau de, [237]
• Concrete, [140]
• Copal, gum, [157]
• Coral, imitation of, [209]
• Corks, to improve, [240]
• Cracking of seasoned wood in America, [50]
• Cracks in furniture, filling, [67]
• Crane, Walter, [24]
• Crockery, [17], [18]
• Crockery or china, mosaic made from broken fragments, [139]
• Cups and vases of papier-maché, how to make (illustration), [172]
• Davidowsky, F., on glue and gelatine, [4]
• Decayed wood, to restore, [63]
• Decorator, The, [73]
• Defacing books, [90]
• Delille, alleged inventor of wiring porcelain, [18]
• Deterioration in pictures, causes of, [214], [215]
• Dextrine, or Leiokom, [7];
• gum, [238]
• Diamond cement, [41]. (Vide Turkish)
• Dillaye, F., [32]
• Dillaye’s cement, [249]
• Dirt in old pictures, its nature, [215]
• Domes or arched roofs, building, [64]
• Drake, Sir W., [47]
• Drawers, to put handles to, [62];
• shrinking of them, [62], [63]
• Dry cleaning, [220]
• Dürer, Albert, [151]
• Dusting broken china, [31]
• Earthenware tubes, how to lute, [27]
• Ebonite, [160]
• Ebony, repairing or imitating, [66], [67]
• Eder’s gum for photographs, [114]
• Eggs in cements, [5]
• “Egyptian Sketch-Book,” [210]
• Elmworm silk, [250]
• Embossing leather, [100]
• Engraving and etching glass or china, [38]
• Erasures in paper, [103]
• Essential oils in cleaning pictures, [225]
• Etruscan vases repaired, [15]
• Excess of cleaning and ignorance as to effects by age, [214]
• Fastening broken furniture, [60], [61]
• Fictile or ceramic ware, [12]
• Field, “Chromatography” [210]
• Fillers for wood, [69]
• Fire-proof paper, [103]
• Floors laid with shavings, [53]
• Flour and starch paste, [4], [5]
• Flour-paste, to make a strong, [112]
• Flowers made from wood-shavings and plaster of Paris, glue, &c., [68]
• Fluid paste, [247]
• Flour spar cement, [237]
• Flux, vitreous or metallic, [17]
• Forgeries in antiques, [94], [149]
• French glue for wood, [80]
• French glues, [248]
• Furniture, cheap and bad, [58]
• Furniture-making, [72]
• Garman, Samuel, [116]
• Garments, invisible mending of, [202-205]
• Gelatine and vinegar cement for china, [25]
• General cements, [244]
• Gerner, Raimund, Die Glas Fabrikation, by, [34], [35]
• Gesso-painting, [24]
• 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 cloth, [167]
• Imperfect work, [107], [108]
• Indiarubber, applied to soles of shoes, [161];
• or vulcanised cement, [162]
• Indifferent substances, [6]
• Ink-stains, to remove, [90-94], [96]
• Inserting pieces in china, &c., [19], [20]
• Iron cements to resist heat, [177], [178]
• Iron doors of furnaces, how to seal hermetically, [179]
• Iron in cements, [6]
• Iron strips and bands in repairing, [171]
• Iron, to set in stone, [178]
• Iron ware, or block cement, [180]
• Ironwork, setting a cement for, [176]
• Italian peasants’ shoes (illustration), [192]
• Ivory, repairing and imitating, [143-155];
• cleaning, [143], [144];
• imitations, [144];
• staining, [147], [148];
• softening, [148]
• Jewellers’ cement, [43]. (Vide Turkish)
• Jewellers’ or Diamond cement, [174]
• Jewesses, repair of embroidery by, [202]
• Joco-Seriorum Naturæ et Artis,
• 1670, story from, referring to broken pottery, [20], [21], [35].
• Join, to, glass and metal, [43]
• Joints in timbers, holes and cracks, how to close, [80]
• Junemann, F., Die Fabrikation des Alauns, [6]
• Kaleidoscope, folding, how to make a, [37], [38]
• Kauri, the gum, [156], [157]
• Kelp, [154]
• Kettenstich, for German chain-stitch, [204]
• Kircher, Athanasius, [92], [95]
• Knotting, patent, [72-74]
• Koppe, J. W., on glycerine, [6]
• Krall, Barkentin &, brass-cleaner, [235]
• Kratzer, Harrmann, on liquid glass, [8]
• Lacquers, [34]
• Layard, Sir Austin, [47]
• Lead pencil or crayon drawings, to protect, [233]
• Leather, artificial, [196], [198]
• Leather, durability of, [188], [189]
• Leather-glue, [197]
• Leather-Work, Manual of, [111]
• Leather-work, repairing, [183-198]
• Lehner, [2], [5], [7], [9], [26], [28], [29], [31], [34], [40], [44], [77], [79], [80], [135], [136], [141], [144], [152], [157], [193], [197], [207], [208]
• Leland, Charles G., quotation from, [50]
• Lemon-juice to whiten the hands, [236]
• Lime, [5], [24], [134]
• Lime cement for glass, [43]
• Liquid acid glue, [59], [60];
• recipe for, [81]
• Lister, Miss Roma, [203];
• MS. of Recipes, [65]
• Litharge cements for many uses, [175]
• Luther, Martin, [149]
• Luting cement, [235]
• Luting or closing chemical apparatus, &c., cements for, [30]
• Magnesia, calcined, to extract stains, [238]
• Majolica, [13], [15], [16]
• Malleable glass, [38]
• Manuel Général du Modelage, [64]
• Marble, fractures, &c., in, [140];
• how to clean, [238];
• to mend, [249]
• Marine glue, hard glue, recipe and description, [162], [163]
• Marking-ink, [237]
• Marquetry, or inlaid wood, repairing, [71], [72], [83-85]
• Mastic, [19], [135], [136];
• French mastic, [136]
• Materials used in mending, [1-11]
• Meerschaum pipes, to mend or make, [240]
• Mending cloth with indiarubber, [165-168]
• Mending furniture, [74-76]
• Mending or repairing defined, [1], [2]
• Merrick’s acid-proof cement, [246]
• Merritt, Henry, [211], [221]
• Metal, to attach leather to, [193]
• Metal-work, mending, [169-182]
• Metallic corners for books (illustrations), [104-106]
• Mica, leaves of, how to prepare them for windows, [47]
• Mierzinski, Dr. Stanislaus, on the manufacture of paper, [132]
• Minor ingredients in cements, [10]
• Mirror with ornaments (illustration), [85]
• Mogford, Henry, [213], [218], [219-222]
• Mosaics, [134]
• Mother-of-pearl and coral, mending, [206-209];
• how imitated, [207];
• from rice, [208]
• Mould or mildew in pictures, [226]
• Mouth-glue, or solid cement, [239], [240]
• Musical glasses of different kinds, [39]
• Musical instruments repaired with shavings, [54], [55]
• Neutral substances in cements, [6]
• Oil, as a basis, [2];
• combination, [3];
• softening paint, [219]
• Old recipes for mending crockery, [23] et seq.
• Olympiodorus, [99]
• “One Hundred Arts,” a book by the Author, [38]
• Ornamenting panes for windows, and doubling them, [44] [45];
• beautiful and varied effects, [46]
• Ornamental work made of shavings, [56], [57]
• 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], [34], [69]
• Raufer, G. M., on meerschaum and amber, [158]
• Raw hide, [233]
• Recipe, old, for repairing glass, [36], [37];
• definition of, [231];
• general, [231-253]
• Red cement for iron, [237]
• Reliefs cut in brick, [29]
• Repainting old pictures, [226], [227]
• Repairing wood with paper-pulp, [132]
• Resin or pitch, [2], [3]
• Restoring fragments of engravings, &c., [115]
• Rice and lime cement, [145]
• Rimmel, bookseller in Oxford Street, [40]
• Ringing or sounding glasses by blowing on them, [39]
• Ris-Pacquot, M., [18], [29], [147]
• Riveting sheet-metal, [169], [170]
• Roller, use of the, [54]
• Roman and Hungarian pottery, &c., [12]
• Roman cement, [24];
• for fine mosaics, [138]
• Rosewood stain, [74]
• Rubbing in colour, [14]
• Ruprecht, Karl, on egg substances and albumen, [5]
• Ruskin, [221]
• Rust, how removed, [234]
• Rust or oxide cement, [177]
• Salle’s cement for glass, [44]
• Satin gloss for paper, [248], [249]
• Sawdust (vide also Wood-paste or artificial wood), [80]
• Scheibler’s cement, [244]
• Schlosser, Edmund, on soldering and metal-work, [182]
• Schwartz’s iron cement, [180]
• Scissors, cutting glass with, [48]
• Scraping varnish, [223]
• Screws, to be dipped in oil or boiling wax, [67]
• Seams, to repair, [196]
• Sedna, Ludwig, on wax, &c., [7]
• Sewing or stitching books, [109]
• Shoes, easily made, [194], [195];
• indiarubber, to repair, [160]
• Side-binding, [110]
• Silicate of soda, or liquid glass, [7], [20];
• with colour, [29], [33], [35]
• Silico-enamel, [237], [238]
• Silk or woolen cloth, to clean, [232], [233]
• Silks, black, gummed, [205]
• Silkworm gum, [250]
• Silver bands, [20]
• Snail cement, [249]
• Soaps in cleaning pictures, [224]
• Solder, Newton’s and Rose’s, a metallic glass, [181]
• Soldering, [171], [172], [180], [181]
• Soles, wooden, for shoes, [191]
• Sorel’s cement, [244]
• South Sea Bubble, [58]
• Spirits of wine to remove dry varnish, [219]
• Splicing broken rods, spars, &c. (with illustration), [61]
• Spraying, to restore crumbling substances by, [146], [147]
• Staining or colouring wood, [69], [70]
• Stains, grease, wine, oil, to remove, [232]
• Stationer’s paste, [247]
• Statues, mending, of plaster of Paris, [141]
• Steam, to clean pictures by, [223]
• Stevens’ and Manders’ wood-stains, [70]
• Stills, to lute, [245]
• Stohmann, classification of cements, with Lehner’s extension of it, [2], [3]
• Stonework, mending, [134-142]
• Stopper, glass, filed to shape, [48]
• Stoves, cement for, [179], [182]
• Strips or braces on panels, &c., [61], [62]
• Strong adhesives for paper, &c., [113], [114]
• Strong cement, for glass, wood, or stone, [42];
• for porcelain, glass, &c., [26], [136]
• Strop, leather, how to mend a, [186], [187]
• Sturgeon’s bladder or fish-glue gum, &c., [5], [32], [42]
• Syndetikon, [243]
• Tapestry glue, [245]
• Tarred or tarpaulin paper-bags, [163]
• Tausendkünstler of 1782, [23]
• Tea-leaves, [243]
• Terra-cotta, [12], [13], [15]
• To preserve the contents of bottles when broken, [167]
• To protect wood under water, [79]
• Tortoise-shell or horn, cement for, [250]
• Toys, mending, [122], [123]
• Tragacanth, gum, [8]
• Transferring pictures, [225]
• Travellers’ glue, [247]
• Trees: bark, splits or cavities in, [82];
• to protect, [248]
• Triangles of tin, &c., used to fasten panes of glass, [35]
• Tribune, the New York, [60]
• Trunks, mending, [190]
• Tufa cement, [235]
• Turkish or diamond cement, [19], [41], [42]
• Turpentine, a counteracting medium of solvent spirit, [220]
• Ulenhuth, Eduard, on moulding, [131]
• Vandyke, picture by, [222]
• Van Helmont on liquid glass, [7]
• Varnish, [3], [34];
• to remove, [216-220]
• Veneers, [51], [53]
• Venetian marquetry, [71]
• Venetian glass, [36]
• Venus mercernaria, or American clam, [208]
• Vermin in wooden dwellings, [246]
• Vinci, Leonardo da, [151]
• Vinegar, commonly made from sulphuric acid, [60]
• Vitreous paint, [40]
• Wagner, R., on liquid glass, [7], [8], [35]
• Wallberger, Johann, Zauberbuch, [96], [234-236]
• Wall-paper of wood, used in America, [69]
• Wall-paper paste, [245]
• Wall-paper with common paste poisonous, [165]
• Walls rendered air-tight (recipe), [164]
• Warped or curved wood, and how to flatten it, [61], [62]
• Washing broken china for repairing, [31]
• Water in cleaning pictures, [216-218]
• Waterproof carpets and wall-covering made from waste-paper, [191]
• Waterproof cement, [194]
• Wax in cements, [7]
• White of egg glaze, [223]
• Whitewash, to make equal to paint, [79]
• Wiegleb, J. C., quotation from, [1], [147]
• Windows, stained glass, works on the subject by A. W. Franks, Owen Jones, Westlake, &c., [40]
• Wine-stains, to remove, [231], [232]
• Wire, for mending china, [19];
• in repairing, [170], [171]
• Wire-mending, [62]
• Wood-ashes in picture-cleaning, [224]
• Wood-Carving, a Manual of, by Charles Godfrey Leland, [70]
• Wood-paste, or artificial wood, [63] et seq.;
• houses can be made of it, [64]
• Wood-shavings in mending and making, [50-57]
• Woodwork, repairing, [58-85]
• Woollen cloth, to clean, [231]
• Work, a scientific journal, [129]
• Worms in wood, to exterminate, [72]
• Wrinkles and freckles, [236]
• Zeiodeleth, [246], [247]
• Zinc, a cement for, [174], [175]
• Zwick, Dr. H., on lime and mortar, [5];
• in Hydraulischer Kalk und Portland Cement, [8]

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