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KERAMIC STUDIO 
Before. 
After. 
DOCTORING GLASS 
D. M. Campana. 
A POINT that will gladden the heart of many glass 
<^*- decorating students, and which is not known, is that 
glasses can often be doctored and brought back to their 
original shape. This applies mostly to stem glasses, han- 
dled ware, footed ware, etc., when a small part is warped 
out of shape. The above illustration will explain very 
readily how a gas jet and a little patience will straighten 
a crooked glass stem. 
Take the glass and warm it up gradually, by passing it 
over the flame, as you must at first warm it up slowly, 
so that it will not break. You warm it a little at a time 
until very hot. You now allow the flame to touch the part 
requiring straightening until it becomes red hot. Holding 
the two ends of the glass in your hands, you force these 
two ends very slowly and gently until you straighten the 
stem. Allow the glass now to cool off over a cloth, not over 
wood or iron, and it will be perfect. 
I have done this to dozens of glasses which on account 
of their softness had happened to lean over, and always 
with perfect results. 
I have also retouched gold or enamel spots, where only 
a small part needed retouching, by holding that particular 
spot over the flame, after having reapplied the gold. There 
are tricks in all trades and I feel certain that persons inter- 
ested in glass decorating will find glass doctoring worth 
knowing. 
GLASS DESIGN, SENNA MOTIF (Page 146) 
M . A . Yeich 
GROUND, Iridescent Yellow lustre ; flowers, birds and 
dots, Gold or Yellow Brown ; lines and stamens, Black 
or Hair Brown ; leaf forms and sepals, one or two tones of 
light green. Design to be developed in enamel, lustre or 
flat color. 
PITCHER AND VASE (Page 153) 
Essie Foley. 
OIL background back of birds and dust with 4 parts 
Coffee Brown and V2 part Yellow Red. Oil stems and 
dust with 2 parts Banding Blue and 1 part Water Blue. 
Light grey on bird is Yellow Brown, the lighter tone on 
tail and wings is Hair Brown and a little Yellow Brown, 
and the darkest tone is Hair Brown or Dark Brown and 
a little Black. 
2d fire — Oil handle and all remaining unpainted surface 
and dust with 1 Ivory Glaze, 2 Pearl Grey and 1/5 Albert 
Yellow. 
BORDER— RUTH RUCK 
OUTLINE with Black. All darkest tones in design are 
oiled and dusted with Black, or they may be painted 
with the Black. Stems, leaves and buds are oiled and 
dusted with two parts Dove or Pearl Grey, two parts Ivory 
Glaze, one part Dark Grey. Background is oiled and dusted 
with three parts Pearl Grey, one Ivory Glaze and a very 
little Cameo. Flowers, are oiled and dusted with two Cameo 
and one Peach Blossom. Stamens are painted with Peach 
Blossom. 
