IlERAMIC STUDIO 
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SILVER SPOON DISH 
THE low silver spoon dish is made from a piece of silver 
5 inches x 9i inches, 20 gauge. After cutting the oval 
shape very carefviUy and correctly, make a line just one inch 
from the outside edge, this line is the guide from where the bowl 
part is to be beaten. Make a pattern from a 3 or 4 inch block 
of wood (see November number, page 165) like profile Fig. I. 
Ti^ I. 
Anneal the silver and begin to hammer with a good sized ham- 
mer (Fig. 2), holding the silver firndy against the block and 
slowly moving it all the time. Always anneal the silver when 
it begins to feel hard and proceed with the hammering until the 
bowl part is well shaped and deep enough. If the rim is not 
perfect^ fiat make it so lay hammering it with a rawhide 
hammer on the an\'il. 
less difficult if a small cage of wire is made and put on each 
ball, leaving enough wire from each cage to go round the dish, 
so that the balls can be fastened securely in place. Polish the 
dish with pimiice and water then use tripoli to finish. 
ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES 
Mrs. W. — If your ring is to be joined in tlie back a bevelled joint is better 
and stronger than a straight one. Bevel carefully ixnder one edge, and over 
the other, and bring them together so that there is the same thickness all 
round the ring. 
L. M. — There are many kinds of sih-er solder, if you are doing a large 
piece of work, I .should ad^dse you to get three kinds, verj^ liard, hard, and soft. • 
Begin with tlie hardest, so that when you use the ne.\t degree the first toII not 
be liable to melt. Clean, freshly ground borax is about the most reliable of 
the fluxes. 
U. Johnson. — You can get French plate glass, bevelled and cut any shape 
and size from the manufacturer, E. P. Birnbaum, 40 Dey Street, New York. 
Mrs. 11. T. — We will give an article on stenciling very soon, and are sure 
tliat you will get some inspiration for your portieres from it. 
R. O. — A copper box is quite a difficult thing to make well. Each part 
nuist be quite true, and the edges very well scraped before you solder. Soft 
solder can be used for a purpose of this kind. Why couldn't j^ou lap each 
seam, and rivet them with copper rivets. If you do not want to make the 
liinges, buy brass ones, have them heavily copper plated and rivet these on in 
the same way. 
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Raffia. — The slender roots of the tree Yucca are sometimes used for the 
red figures in the baskets of the Panamint Indians of Tuyo County, Cal. 
These Indians also use extensively the small branches of the three leaf Sirniac, 
in the manufacture of their baskets. For warp the peeled branches are used 
For weft and for the se^Ndng material of coiled baskets the branch is usually 
split into three strips and the bark and the brittle tissue next the pith remo^'ed 
leaving a flat tough strand. 
Put the design (Fig. 3) on the under side of the rim 
with a steel point. Fill the bowl with pitch and turn this on 
the pitch ball. 
Outline all the Hues in the design with a tracer and then 
repouss6 with suitable tools. Take the dish off the cement 
or pitch and put it back on the other side, then work down the 
background with a flat planisher next to the design and a 
round one afterwards. After this is done satisfactorily, 
soften down with emery cloth of different grades, beginning 
with medium, and finishing with very fine. Solder on the 
bottom of the dish four silver balls for feet, this process will be 
CANDLESTICK 
THIS delightfully simple candlestick is an expression of 
modern German art and was kindly lent to us for re- 
production by Mr. W. T. Bush of Brooklyn. It is made of thin 
sheet -iron in three pieces, one piece for the bottom, one for the 
socket for the candle and one for the handle, a part of this also 
holds the socket. Four iron balls riveted to the bottom part 
of the candlestick, supph' the feet. 
