PAPER MOULDING. 
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Paper Moulding op Monuments, or “ Squeezes.” 
By A. P. Maudslay. 
The paper which I have found to be most suitable for this purpose is 
a hand-made paper commonly used for wrapping up oranges in Spain 
when they are packed for export. It can be obtained from Messrs. 
Batalla, of Cacagente, near Valencia, through the agency of Messrs. 
H. King & Co., of Cornhill. But good moulds have been made by Mr. 
Purdon Clarke with native-made paper both in Egypt and India, and a 
serviceable paper is now made in America, and, at a pinch, newspaper, 
or .almost any paper, will serve to take an impression if sufficient 
patience is exercised. 
The process of moulding, is a very simple one. Soak some sheets of 
paper in water, and, after wetting the surface of the carving of which 
you wish to secure a mould, cover it sheet by sheet with the wet paper, 
beating in each sheet to the form of the carving with a clothes-brush. 
As the paper will break, and leave portions of the carving bare, this 
process must be repeated until none of the surface of the carving can be 
seen. Then give the mould a good coat of paste, and, after waiting a few 
minutes, lay on more sheets of wet paper, beating them in as before; a 
second coat of paste is almost always needed, and then beat in more 
sheets of paper. Leave the mould on the sculpture to dry thoroughly, 
and, when dry, loosen it round the edges and pull it off. The mould 
must be made thick enough to keep its shape when dry. 
The above is a sufficient description of the process; but the following 
notes, which are the result of many experiments and considerable ex¬ 
perience, will be found of use. 
Paper can only properly be applied for the purpose of moulding when 
the carving is free from large contours and deep undercutting; but it is 
wonderful what accurate results can be obtained even when large curves 
and some undercutting have to be contended against. Where worn or 
splintered parts of a wood-carving, or fissures in a stone, or deep under¬ 
cutting which is not essential to the design, occur, it is often of advantage 
to fill them up with clay or paper, to which a smooth surface can be 
given, so that the mould will come away free from them when it is dry ; 
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