After each firing of an article, burnishthe gold, for handling, or moisture from the hands, or dust are sure to show.
It is unwise to burnish an article near where you are working, as the particles get into the colors and act the same when the colors are fired.
Mowbray, who was striving to burnish a rusted bit, looked sharply at his big comrade, whose broad red face, propped on his hands, was clearly revealed by the dancing flames.
Sainton, more annoyed than he cared to show, drew his long neglected sword and began to burnish it affectionately.
It was very pleasant to come off the directions not to conveye spetell over the table, or burnish one's bones with one's teeth, to the burst of enthusiasm with which the writer speaks of our old poets.
Burnysshe no bones / with your teth / beware [Sidenote: Don't burnish bones with your teeth.
High above the wood some startled pigeons were still wheeling, no other life in sight; but a gleam of sunlight stole down the side of the covert and laid a burnish on the turned leaves till the whole wood seemed quivering with magic.
Perhaps the best way of laying the size, so that it may set properly and that the burnish may retain its brilliance, is to put on a thin coat with a pen--in the direct manner in which coloured Versals are made (q.
As a general rule the size should stand pretty high when wet; it shrinks in drying, and, if it forms too thin a coat, it will neither hold the gold-leaf fast nor burnish well.
More expensive leaf, being thicker, does not stick so well to the edges; cheaper is too thin to burnish well.
If the former, the gold will not burnish well; if the latter, it will burnish, but will not stick at the edges, and will crack sooner or later.
The harder varieties of the amatista or haematite were used to burnish the gold leaf in manuscripts, small pieces being polished and fixed in a convenient handle.
Afterwards burnish the copper by rubbing it with polished steel.
This burnishgilding is far more brilliant than the oil gold, but will not wash, and is not so durable.
When quite dissolved and hot it is passed through a cloth into a trough, and each sheet passed through the liquor and hung up to dry; when dry, burnish as above.
After sprinkling, or staining, or when the edges have become dry, burnish the front; then turning the press, burnish the edges at the top and bottom of the volume.
Burnish the gilt edges in the same manner, after having applied the gold; but observe in gilding to put the gold first upon the front, and allow it to dry; and on no account commence the burnishing until the gold is quite dry.
And when they be about to burnish they smite the ground with their feet and welter like a horse.
And then they burnish their heads, and when they be burnished which they do all the month of July they abide in that manner till the feast of the Holy (Cross) in September 14th and then they go to rut as I have said.
And after the heads come again rough as a hart's head, and commonly they burnish their horns in March.
The wiping off and the delicate burnishmay be given with a soft piece of chamois skin.
The slow drying size works better and affords a more satisfactory job of gilding than does the quicker mixture, the gold invariably taking a fine burnish over the slow, fat oil size.
The gilt-edge is here to be treated like every other plain gilt-edge, to produce dull ground, burnish with a piece of paper between the book edge and the burnisher.
When this has been done with all necessary care, remove the paper and burnish the parts of the edge between the tracings by means of a small, pointed burnisher.
First burnish the gold laid on slightly, afterwards continue with greater force.
As soon as the edge is dry, burnish as any other gilt-edge.
If gilt, silver or aluminium edges are to be marbled, burnish slightly and moisten by a soft brush with a solution of powdered alum in hot water which is of the consistency of a thin pap.
When a uniform color is obtained allow the edge to dry in the press and then burnish it well with a broad burnisher.
Everything was shown up, endowed with a curious silvery burnish which dazzled the eyes till shadows became magnified into buildings, and the buildings themselves distorted out of all proportion.
It will not well, so she would bring about An ever brighter burnish than before And turns to wash it from her welling eyes And breathes the blots off all with sighs on sighs.
Burnish gold size" is a preparation for laying down the gold leaf that is intended afterwards to be burnished (i.
When the gold remains even, add a moderate portion of the flowers of copper and bullock's gall; rub them together, and write and burnish the letters.
Let all get perfectly dry, and then burnish as required.
Mr. Barnard has also prepared a gold size and raising preparation, adapted for laying gold on vellum or paper, which answers well both for mat and burnish gilding.
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