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BORDERS— MARGARET LATHAM 
Treatment by Jessie M. Bard 
THESE borders are to be used on plates, cups and saucers 
in gold. Nos. 1 and 7 are good outlines to be used 
over bands of Gold, fired and then put in Black outline over 
the gold. 
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
L. H. H. — We do not know the cause of the rust spots on gold unless 
it is that you did not use unfluxed gold which should always be used over color. 
J. M. J. — Belleek may be rested against a piece of asbestos to prevent 
the rough places. Fry's Special Tinting Oil is used for ground-laying. We 
cannot answer the question in regard to bronze colors as we do not know what 
colors you refer to. There is a bronze gold that is a mat color, a bronze 
color can also be obtained by flowing Light Green Lustre quite heavily over 
fired gold. 
Keramic Subscriber — ^Coral enamel can be put on either thin or heavy. 
It will mix with other colors. It requires about a rose fire, too hot a fire 
turns it yellow, there is no other color with which you can get the same effect. 
2 — The trouble with your lustre is probably that of not having used a 
clean brush. Lustre brushes should be thoroughly cleaned in turpentine 
and then in alcohol and rushed back and forth across the hand until the al- 
cohol is all evaporated leaving the brush dry and soft before putting it away. 
3 — Floated enamels can be used on German china, but it is not safe to 
fire a second time unless they are very thin. 
For light colored enamels use 4 parts Relief White, 1 part Hancock's 
Hard White Enamel and a touch of Flux and add any color that you wish 
to use. 
For dark enamels mix the color that you wish and add 1-S Relief White- 
H. — Flat enamels means to apply the enamels in a thin wash. They 
are not much heavier than color is applied. 
For enamels use four parts Relief White, one part Hard White Enamel 
and a bit of flux and add color desired for the light enamels. Use a bone 
knife for mixing, grind thoroughly. Use the tube Rehef White, add a very 
little lavender oil before grinding and then thin to the proper consistency 
with lavender as you use it. 
NEGUNDO ACAROIDES BOX ELDER- 
HANNAH B. OVERBECK 
