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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
The Art Barn where the HxhiljitioTis are held. 
The Deerfield (Mass.) Arts and Crafts Society held its 
Annvial exhibition from the 19th to the 22 d of July. The 
basketry and blue and white needlework was unusually attrac- 
tive. There was also an interesting exhibit of metal work bj- 
Mrs. Madeline Yale Wynne of Chicago, who always spends two 
months of the summer at Deerfield. The beautiful little town 
was packed with pilgrims to the exhibition. 
Village Rooii 
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(Builb of arts anb Crafts. 
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Mestmount, flDontreal, Canaba. 
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A. AV. — Yovi will find treatments for the last two supplements in this num- 
ber of Keramic Studio. If your roses are too pink they cannot be changed 
except to malve them red, liy firing very hard they will be paled some what Init 
the color will be bluish. To dust color on a background which is just from the 
kiln you proceed as is always done for a dusted tint. If you wish a very deep 
color you pad carefully with English groimding oil until tacky, wipe out the 
portions you do not wish grounded, then dust on the powder color Until the oil 
has taken up all the color it can and the surface looks dry. If you do not wish 
the color very deep, you thin the grounding oil with spirits of turpentine to the 
desired consistency before padding. Then treat just as if you were dusting on 
a painted surface. 
Glazing a painting is retouching with thin washes of color over a fired 
surface. 
J- 1^- — The terms glazing, dusting, flushing are fre(|uentiy used to signify 
retouching a painted surface, either with washes of color or rufibing into the 
freshly painted surface more or less powder color. This process may be re- 
peated a,s often as you wish and with whatever colors you make think will give 
the desired effect. 
We would imagine that either a brown or olive green would go best with 
yoiu- purple Poppies. Perhaps the dark brown would be preferable. 
If your light green lustre fired yellow, it was perhaps too thin or put on too 
thinly. 
Mrs. A. G. A. — There is no alisolute rule as to the time of firing a kiln, 
usually one hour and a half is sufficient for a good sized kiln but the longer 
the time in firing and cooling off, the better the results. You wiU have to 
judge by the color inside the kiln, it should be a luminous orange. A few 
trials will be necessary before you can decide the necessary time. Each 
individual will have to Avork out this problem for herself as the worldng of 
the kiln depends on draft and other local conditions. 
W. E. W. — The Platinum for china decoration comes either in powder 
or ready prepared. If in poAvder mix with e<(ual parts oil of tar and oil of 
turpentine, just enough to make a smooth paste, thin with spirits of turpentine; 
it shovild be well rulibed down with a gltiss niuller on a ground glass palette; 
if ready prepared, mix only with spirits of turpentine. Burnish silver cati be 
used over cither li<iuid silver or liquid gold or o\c,r any gold or bronze prepara- 
, N ILLUSTRATED eight-page addition to our Catalogue, 
i showing color studies to=date is now ready. 
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