A new system of practical domestic economy.

Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new system of practical domestic economy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PLASTERED WALLS. but the quantity here mentioned will not serve for more than one coat to about twenty-four square yards. Where the plaster is previously in good order and not partially discoloured, one coat will be found sufficient for halls, staircases, or ceilings; but when used for wainscotting, instead of paint, two coats will be necessary, and which may be laid on al- most immediately, as it is perfectly set and dry in the course of an hour; becoming not only more solid, but also much handsomer than any other modes in common use, requiring less labour and no fire in the preparation. When the walls upon which this colouring is to be applied are not in a very perfect state, and ap- pear to require the assistance of the plasterer, a cheap substitute may be found in laying on a com- mon kind of wrapping-paper, which will receive the mixture with great facility. It may be mentioned here, that M. Stefano Ba- rezzi, of Milan, has discovered a process for trans- posing paintings in fresco, from one wall to ano- ther, without injuring them. He covers the picture with a prepared canvass, which detaches the whole of the painting from the wall. The canvass is then applied to another wall, to which the picture attaches without the least trait being lost. Another point of saving may be found in the adoption of the newly-inventecl washable paper- hangings: and it must not be forgotten that old furniture paper may be very readily cleansed by the application of stale bread, taking care to rub the paper down in one direction : —a half cpiartern loaf should be cut into about four pieces, and the soft side of the bread applied. We have seen a recipe in an American paper, to make a very beautiful paint for the walls of stair-
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