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J. A. C— We have never used paste for raised gold mixed with sugar 
and water instead of other medium, but if you find that it goes on nicely with 
a brush or pen, and dries matt or dull, it will fire all right. Gold can safely 
be put over any mixture of paste for gold before firing, if the paste is thor- 
oughly dry and dull. Deep blue green with a touch of apple green makes the 
nearest approach to Sevres blue. Coalport or Dresden yellow green are very 
near the Sevres green. If you mean the decorative head in batchelor's but- 
tons of the January Supplement, we should advise for the blue Banding Blue 
and a touch of Ruby Purple. Royal Green is very like Moss Green, only 
slightly greener. 
M. F. M. — Your cup tinted in Royal Green powder color on which the 
gold "rolled up," can be remedied by going over the design with raised paste 
and then cover with gold, or follow out the design with white enamel, using 
aufsetzweis and one-eighth flux. Your gold was not hard enough to go 
over a deep tint of green. You should have used the unfluxed gold, having 
fired your color hard first. 
The best brushes for china painting are the camel's hair brushes in quills, 
The square shaders in different sizes are very valuable, and for fine work the 
pointed shaders ; for miniature work, minialure brushes and slanting stipplers ; 
for general use, square shaders 2, 4, 6, 8, pointed shaders 1 and 2. 
F. V. G.— Glass colors should glaze unless especially prepared to be matt. 
They will not have quite as high a glaze as the glass itself, except what are 
called "stains," which, if fired just right, will have almost the same appear- 
ance as the glass. They should be at least translucent, if not transparent. 
A monogram should be put on a rim in such a way as not to interfere 
with the border, being placed either just below the border or in one panel, in 
which case it takes the place of the ornamentation filling the other panels, 
but the main border should not be disturbed. 
Royal Worcester finish on china is a perfectly matt surface, Doulton 
finish has a semi-matt or ivory surface. The colors can be either dark or 
light. 
E. A. S.— The tulip design for stained glass will appear in the July 
number. 
Margaret— Mineral colors for painting on china are no more poisonous or 
injurious than any other kind of paint Some persons are very sensitive to 
turpentine or oil paints, and possibly to china colors, but it is because their 
own constitution is out of gear. Of course if one put his brush in his mouth 
or eats paint for recreation he might find his stomach rebels, but not otherwise. 
For Treatment see page 42 
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VASE— FRANK S. BROWNE 
