Making Plaster Casts.
CHAPTER XXV.
HOW TO MAKE PLASTER CASTS.
IT is not at all difficult; anyone can succeed in it who will take the pains to follow carefully the directions given here for making plaster casts. Without the knowledge of drawing or modelling you can in this way reproduce almost any article in a very short time.
Casting in plaster is really so simple a process that even a child can soon learn to manage it nicely.
You will need a board, about a foot and a half square, upon which to work, fifteen or twenty pounds of clay, five pounds of plaster-of-Paris, a cup of warm melted lard, and several small wooden pegs; these can be made of wooden tooth-picks or matches broken in two.