A Manual of Mending and Repairing; With Diagrams

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A concise, illustrated practical guide that compiles step-by-step methods, materials, and tools for repairing household and decorative objects, covering ceramics and glass, wood, books and paper, papier-mâché, stone and mosaics, ivory and amber, rubber and gutta-percha, metal, leather, and textiles. It provides cement recipes, surface-preparation techniques, invisible-mending tips, and procedures for restoring pictures and pavements, followed by general formulas and an index. Framed around chemical and mechanical principles, the manual presents mending as a skilled craft that requires careful material choice, correct technique, and perseverance.

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FOOTNOTES:

1 Ceresa is the setting of powdered glass of different colours in a cement bed. Mosaic cubes are often combined with it.

2 Vide “Wood-Carving,” by Charles Godfrey Leland, F.R.L.S., M.A. (London, Whittaker & Co., 5s.), for a chapter on this subject.

3 For fullest details as to the treatment of horn, the reader may consult Die Verarbeitung des Hornes, &c., by Louis E. Andés, in which he will also find full details as to dyeing ivory.

4 The late W. W. Story, the sculptor and man of letters.

5 “Handbook on the Preservation of Pictures,” by Henry Mogford; twelfth edition, revised. London: Winsor & Newton, 1s.

Transcriber’s Note:

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.