Paper, Waxed. Prep. Place cartridge paper, or strong writing paper, on a hot iron plate, and rub it well with a lump of beeswax. Used to form extemporaneous steam or gas pipes, to cover the joints of vessels, and to tie over pots, &c.
PAPER HANG′INGS. The ornamental paper used to cover the walls of rooms, &c. Under the old system, the paper, after being sized and prepared with a ground colour, had the pattern produced on it by the common process of ‘stencilling,’ a separate plate being employed for each colour that formed the pattern. To this succeeded the use of wooden blocks, the surface of which bearing the design in relief, and being covered with colour, was applied by simple hand pressure on the paper, in a precisely similar manner to that adopted in the block-printing of calicoes. The cylinder calico-printing machine has now been successfully applied to the manufacture of paper hangings.
The colours employed for paper hangings are—
Blacks.—Frankfort, ivory, and blue black.
Blues. Prussian blue, verditer, and factitious ultramarine.
Browns. Umber (raw and burnt), and mixtures.
Grays. Prussian blue and blue black, with Spanish white.
Greens. Brunswick green, Scheele’s g., Schweinfurt g., and green verditer; also mixtures of blues and yellows.
Reds. Decoctions of Brazil wood (chiefly),
brightened with alum or solution of tin; the red ochres; and, sometimes, red lake.