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KERAMIC STUDIO 
BORDER FOR CHILD'S SET— MAY BELLE CHENEY 
BEGINNERS' CORNER 
JESSIE M. BARD ------ 
Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, Pa. 
Page Editor 
BORDER FOR CHILD'S SET 
THE outline may be omitted but if preferred use 2-3 
Copenhagen Blue and 1-3 Banding Blue and fire. 
Second Fire if ^outlined is used, or first without: Oil 
all the dark^spaces with Special Oil according to directions 
given in an earlier number of the magazine and dust with 4 
parts Grey Blue and 1 part Water Blue. If a background is 
desired oil over the entire surface including design after the 
blue has been fired, pad the oil until it is tacky and let it stand 
about an hour or less according to amount of oil used and then 
dust with 2 parts Pearl Grey, 1 of Ivory Glaze and a very little 
Grey Blue. 
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BORDER FOR DINNER SET 
OIL all except outer band lines and petals of flowers and 
dust Florentine Green. Outer bands and petals of 
flowers are Green Gold. 
CONVENTIONALIZED BITTER SWEET (Color Study) 
M. H. Watkeys 
BLACK outline may be used or omitted as preferred. Oil 
leaves and dust with 1 part Water Lily Green and 1 Pearl 
Grey. Oil light berries and dust with Yellow for Dusting, 
the next toned berries dusted with Deep Ivory and a little 
Yellow Brown and the darkest tone with Coffee Brown and 
a little. Blood Red. Black lines are painted with Black, 
Yellow bands are Roman Gold. 
BORDER FOR DINNER SET— C. L. CHAMBERLAIN 
Second Fire — -Oil grey background spaces and dust with 
3 Pearl Grey, 1 Ivory Glaze, \ Dark Grey. The grey space 
may be carried out in silver or White Gold if preferred. Oil 
Yellow background and dust with 1 Pearl Grey, 2 Ivory Glaze 
and about 1-8 part Albert Yellow. Retouch the Gold- 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 
D. P. — 1. In Marie Frick's article in last number of Keramic Studio 
she has in list of colors a bottle of Demar Varnish. How do you use varnish in 
the Vitrifiable colors? (Glass Painting.) 
2. Can you mix the colors in glass painting? 
3. Has the cold or unfired process in glass proved satisfactory? 
4. 7s the cold process what is sometimes called jeweller's enamel? 
1. The varnish is probably used over the colors when they are dry for 
the cold process to make them hold, as she mentions fat oil in the article for 
mixing colors. 
2. Yes, colors can be mixed the same as in china painting. 
3. It is not as satisfactory as when fired for it would not wear as well. 
4. Am not sure about this but hardly think so. 
E. M. S. — 1. Do you not consider glass firing hard on the kiln? Since 
firing glass I have so much trouble with the clay dropping off from the side of the 
kiln. I use firing clay for filling cracks but it does not hold. 
2. One of the tubes is quite loose and I have wondered if there was danger 
of it dropping out during a firing? 
1. No, it is not hard on a kiln for it is fired at such a low heat. Mix a 
little liquid glass with what you have and it will hold. 
2. Plaster it well, it depends on where the crack is, if there is nothing to 
hold the tube it might drop out. 
H. L. N. — Wish to paint a dinner set using gold band and monogram. 
Is it proper to use husband's three initials A. B. C, or should the wife's initials 
be used? Her name having been Mary E. Brown before marriage would the 
proper monogram be M. B. C? 
If it is a bride her own initials are used M. E. B., but if a married woman 
her initials and her husband's, M. B. C. 
PLATE— J. O. BALDA 
Outline and bands may be Black or Gold. The flower forms are painted with a thin wash of Rose and the remaining 
dark spaces are Violet and a little Dark Grey if Gold outline is used. If outline is black paint them 
with Apple Green and a little Yellow Green and the flowers with Sea Green or Turquoise Blue. 
