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RERAMIC STUDIO 
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SUGGESTION FOR LEADED GLASS. 
By courtesy of International Studio. 
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES 
Rugs. — One and a half pound of cotton rags will make one yard of weav- 
ing. Large rugs for centres of rooms can be made of woolen raps by weav- 
ing a separate narrow border for the two sides. If the first piece is three feet 
wide by eight in length and a foot wide border is added at the sides, it will 
make a rug five feet wide by eight feet long or if two eight foot lengths are 
sewed together with a foot wide border, it will make an eight by eight centre 
rug. The border should be made of a darker colored filling. The same plan 
can be carried out in larger rugs by sewing breadths together and adding a 
border only on two ends, but they are not easily shaken, and are apt to pull 
apart by their own weight. 
A. R. — For soldering small pieces of steel and iron, mix eight parts of 
granulated brass with one part of zinc. Put borax with this, and spread on 
the articles to be joined. 
Metal copper rivets can be bought in several sizes. The round headed 
rivet is the best for most purposes. If too long for your box, cut off a piece 
of the rivet with a metal saw, use a rivet set for riveting. 
TREATMENT FOR PHLOX STUDY (Color Supplement.) 
Paul Putzki. 
For the white flowers use Grey, laying them in masses 
around the center, Ruby or Violet. The purple variety is 
painted with Light Violet shading into Dark Violet around 
the center. For pink flowers use Light and Dark Carmine. 
Leaves Dark Green, Yellow Green, Brown Green and Black 
Green. Background is best in cool tones, using grey and 
green effects with a touch of violet. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
p. — Coin gold contains an alloj^ of copper and silver, this is held in solu- 
tion after the gold is precipitated. It can be precipitated l)y adding another 
acid. Formula will be given in the next issue. If you add much silver to . 
the pure gold you will have green gold. Alloys for gold can be bought but the 
best only should be used, and that obtained from a first class house. 
Mrs G. E. B. — It is impossible as well as unnecessary to conceal the join- 
ing line in putting tiles together, even if figures are cut in two. Part of the 
beauty of a tile picture is this division which cuts through everything. 
Mrs. K. M. — Mineral transfers are supposed to be fired but once. How- 
ever they could be retouched with mineral colors and fired again. Write to 
the houses that advertise mineral transfers and they will tell you what they 
use as a transfering medium. We would suggest using grounding oil, a 
quick drying one like the Osgood oil, blending with a dabber until tacky, then 
apply the transfer and when the oilis hard hold in water to float off the paper. 
L. G. — It is not possible for us to say at just what temperature gold is 
properly developed. The only way to know is to fife to a good rose heat, a 
heat that will develop pinks and carmines is just right for gold. The inside 
kiln should look a bright orange and somewhat hazy. A glass burnisher always 
turns dark in burnishing, but more so if the gold is underfired for then tlie 
gold rubs off on to it. It is always best to fire paste before tlie gold is applied 
although not absolutely necessary. See article on gold work in Class Room. 
Mrs. T. C. L.— For a dinner plate the rim plate is best. The coupe or 
rimless plate is used more for desert or fruit. 
M. M. — You will find ev^ery branch of china decoration fully exiilained 
in the Class Room. The next subject will be "Firing", Any (;|uestions you 
do not find answered there you may send to this department. 
Mrs. E. H. M. — It would be impracticable to publish tlie personal methods 
of each inquirer, but any desired information or criticisms can always be 
secured through these columns. In regard to your custom of using clove 
oil as a medium, if you find it satisfactory there is no reason to make a change 
even if others do not care to use it so freely. The general experience is thai 
it keeps colors too open and catches dust if too much is used. The general 
rule is to mi.x oil of cloves and oil of copaiba as a medium in the proportion 
of one drop cloves to six drops copaiba. Then use sprits of turpentine for 
painting. 
C. G. M. — When gold comes from the fire thick in some spots and thin in 
others, if it is a reliable make, it is because it has been put on unevenly. The 
only remedy is to go over the gold and refire. If you put it on in two good 
coats, being careful to make the brush strokes up and down in one instance 
and horizontally in the other, you will be pretty sure to have the surface well 
covered. However if fired too hard on Belleek gold is very liable to disappear; 
fire lighter next time. 
E. H. McC. — The sketch of birches, Jan. 1906, can be utilized as a band 
at top of tankard with grounded color below but we would prefer not to use 
too naturalistic a treatment, also by enlarging the study it could be extended 
from top to bottom of the tankard or stein. A good color scheme would be 
as follows — Paint the birches in grey greens, with touches of warm brown, 
dust the base a rich brown. Metssen would l)e effective. Outline design and 
bands with the same brown. For the second fire tint the decorated band with 
Pearl Grey and a touch of brown, which will give a uniform glaze. Strengthen 
outlines if necessary. We expect to publish a stein in poplars very soon. 
Mrs. J. McC. — We have not had any good design of Snowballs submitted 
to us, if we do, we will pubhsh it. We have no book on miniature work but 
have several articles on miniature and figure work in back numbers of KfjR- 
AMic Studio. We have already published six rose studies in color, one by 
Marshal Fry, one by F. B. Aulich, one by Teana McLennan Hinman, two by 
Rhoda Holmes Nichols and one of little roses by Mrs. SalTord. You will 
find them in the Rose book We will probably publish more later but not in 
the next six months, except in black and white. 
SUGGESTION FOR LEADED GLASS. 
By courtesy of International Studio. 
