For blocking, one coat of glaire will be enough for most leathers.
Some finishers prefer to use old, evil-smelling glaire, but provided it is a day old, and has been well beaten up, fresh glairewill work quite well.
The finisher should not glaire in more than he can tool the same day.
It is not suitable for open patterns, where the glaire might show on the surface of the leather.
The impressions of any heavy or solid tools should be given a second coat of glaire when the first has ceased to be "tacky," and if the leather is at all porous, all impressions had better have a second coat.
The book with the pattern ready prepared, and the glaire sufficiently dry (not sticky), is rubbed lightly with a small piece of cotton-wool greased with a little cocoanut oil.
Finishers' glaire may be made from the white of eggs well beaten up, diluted with about half as much vinegar, and allowed to settle.
When the gold is ready, the glaire should be floated on to the edge with a soft brush, and the gold spread evenly over it and left until dry; that is, in a workshop of ordinary temperature, for about an hour.
Glaire should not be used unless it is quite liquid and clean.
It is best to glaire twice, and to lay on a small portion of gold at a time with benzine.
When the glaire has ceased to be "tacky," the gold is laid on.
As glaire is apt to show and disfigure the leather when dry, it is best to use it as sparingly as possible, and, excepting where the pattern is very close, to confine it to the impressions of the tools.
The glaire of the edge gilding will help to stop the edges fraying out.
If the application of glaire makes that part of the book appear radically different from the rest of the back, the glaire may be applied to the entire back.
The object of heating the type is to make the gold combine with the glaire in such a way as to cause the gold to adhere.
Glaire is easily made as follows: Take whites of three eggs; add three teaspoonfuls of vinegar and beat until it is a light froth.
With a small sponge, apply the glaireto the part of the back which is to receive the call number, taking care to draw the sponge evenly across the back, leaving a straight line.
When scraped quite smoothly and evenly, a mixture of black lead and thin glaire water is painted over the edge, and with a hard brush it is well brushed until dry.
Morocco can be worked by merely washing the whole surface with a little urine or weak ammonia, but it is safer to use a coat of glaire and water mixed in proportion of one of the former to three of the latter.
Used as a protection to the glaire when polished on the covers of books.
The edge of the glaire generally leaves a black or dark stain.
In using glaire the gold is laid on the silk, but on no account must any oil or lard be rubbed on it for the temporary holding of the gold.
It must be remembered that if the iron is too hot it will cause the glaire to turn white.
During summer, flies will eat the glaire from various places while the book is lying or standing out to dry, so that constant vigilance must be kept to avoid these pests.
Prepare the whole of the back with vinegar and glaire, as above described, but lay the glaireon with a sponge.
If they are not to be polished, paste-wash the whole of the side up to the edge of the back carefully, then glaire only that portion which is to be gilt.
The porous varieties must be paste-washed carefully, sized all over very evenly, and glaired once or twice; care being taken that the size and glaire be laid on as evenly as possible.
Paste-wash the leather, and when dry glaire twice.
Should the plates stick, there is no other remedy than washing off the varnish with spirits of wine, and the glaire and size with warm water, and carefully re-preparing the surface as before.
I advise the finisher to beat his glaire from an egg as he may require it.
Tom seemed surprised and troubled, for he had fully expected to find that Richard Glaire was from home.
I was only too glad, though, to come and apologise to Mr Glaire for the wrong I had done.
I see Master Richard Glaire come along though," said the big fellow, under the impression that that might act as a clue.
Richard Glaire was not aware of his mother's arrangement, and his face wore anything but a pleasant expression as he confronted the vicar in the hall, having himself only just come in.
No, he must read it--it was his duty, and it was like a stroke of fate that Richard Glaire should come there upon such a day.
Joe Banks swung out of the room with all the sturdy independence of a man with a thousand pounds of his own, and then made his way home, while Mrs Glaire sat as it were stunned.
Prosper wished with all his heart for the arrival of the concerted signal, which should tell Henri Glaire that he might fulfil the purpose of his sojourn at the Maison Alix, and set forth for Marseilles.
Henri Glaire arrived at the Maison Alix, was fraternally received, and made acquainted with the sphere of his operations.
Of course the avocat did not commit himself by any avowal to this lukewarm patriot; but he casually mentioned that Henri Glaire was about to take his leave.
At the Tour a Glaire the park and dwelling-house presented a sorrowful spectacle of pillage and devastation, the trim lawns cut up and destroyed, the trees felled, the mansion dismantled.
As it was beginning to be dark Pache stealthily made his way to the Tour a Glaire and slipped into the park, while the three others cautiously followed him at a distance.
The road from St. Sauveur to St. Pierreville ascends the Gluyère or Glairein much the same way as the road to Le Cheilard ascends the Erieux.
From St. Sauveur one diligence runs westward by the Glaireto St. Pierreville and Marcols, the other northwards to Le Cheilard.
When the glaire is nearly dry, a fragment of gold-leaf is picked up on a pad of cotton wool slightly touched with cocoanut oil and pressed down on the blind impression of the tool.
The best modern practice in making glaire is to beat up the white of an egg with about half its quantity of vinegar, allowing the mixture to stand over night.
To polish leathers such as these, binders' varnish or, at least, the glaire mentioned above, should be used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glaire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
