RERAMIC STUDIO 
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PYROGRAPHY 
All designs for Pyrography should be sent to Miss K. Livermore, 1010 Chapel St., 
New Haven, Ct., who has charge of this department and will answer inquiries 
in the Magazine. 
Katlicrin Livermore 
THESE ornamental fragments are taken from books of de- 
sign by Kramer & Lienard and are especially well 
adapted to fire etching. The upper one is an admirable sug- 
gestion for a chair-back, either carving the head, then burning 
it or leaving it flat. Carry out entirely with the point. Burn 
it deep and strong, touching the deepest shadows with walnut 
stain if necessary to give the necessary depths of tone. If 
stain is used the parts stained should be touched lightly with 
light shelac before waxing, otherwise the stain will discolor 
the lighter parts when rubbed with the brush to polish. 
The other designs require a similar treatment. 
DESIGN FOR PORTFOLIO (Page 230) 
IN APPLIED LEATHER COMBINED WITH STAIN AND PYROGRAPHY 
Maude Crigler Anderson 
TRACE design carefully on white leather, shade with the 
needle and stain with leather stains in natural colors, 
almost as though you were painting in water colors. Care- 
fully cut the design from leather and apply with weak solu- 
tion of white glue to leather of darker harmonious color. 
Keep in press until dry, then carefully burn around edges of 
design. Touches of gold for leather may be applied to flower 
centers. This can be applied to many articles, pillow tops, 
book covers, library table mats, etc., etc. For another treat- 
ment use pale pink leather for roses, pale green for leaves, 
touch up with leather stains where deeper tints are required. 
Conventional designs are well adapted to applied leather. 
ANSWERS TO INQUIRERS 
Miss S. M. McK. — The first thing to be done with your point is to inspect each part of yonr outfit 
very carefully — as you say there seems to be no escape for the air ; remove the rubber tubes and 
blow through them; see that there is no stoppage in the cork handle (I keep a pipe-cleaner, 
procurable at a cigar store, for this purpose, 
as it can be easily inserted and cleans the tube 
thoroughly), insert a fine needle in the hole in 
the side of the point, then blow through it, 
some times a tiny cinder here will cause all the 
trouble. 
If all this is of no avail you may conclude 
the trouble is with the benzine — too strong, 
too weak or too much in the bottle ; — get paint- 
ers' benzine at a paint store ; if the point cools 
off entirely after removing from the flame, you 
may know the benzine is too strong, pour out 
until only a few drops remain in the bottle. 
If the point comes to a red, but not a white 
heat, the benzine is too weak; some times 
shaking the bottle slightly will cause a circu- 
lation and start the gas to f ormiug more rapidly ; 
if this does not do it, add a little fresh benzine 
or a few drops of naphtha. 
A new point is apt to bother until the thin 
plating over the~platinum is burned off. 
~ vyllWf;/./.;, 
