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The Making of Beeswax Candles
What a variety of candles can be found today! The types of waxes have extended beyond the tallow and beeswax of our early ancestors to include parrafin, soy, and gel. There is even another type of wax which was...
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Transferring onto Glass
Colored or plain engravings, photographs, lithographs, water colors, oil colors, crayons, steel plates, newspaper cuts, mezzotints, pencil, writing, show cards, labels, or in fact, anything. DIRECTIONS. Take glass that is perfectly clear (window glass will answer) clean it thoroughly; the...
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Plant Baskets
An ox-muzzle, flattened on one side and nailed to a board, as in Fig 44, filled with spongy moss and feathery ferns, makes a lovely ornament; while suspended baskets holding cups or bowls of soil filled with drooping plants...
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Rustic Frames
Take a very thin board , of the right size and shape, for the foundation or "mat;" saw out the inner oval or rectangular form to suit the picture. Nail on the edge a rustic frame made of branches...
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TO MAKE SCENTED BAGS.
Taken from Godey's Ladies Book 1855 -Take a Florentine orrisroot a pound and a half; calamus aromaticus, half a pound; yellow sandal-wood, a quarter of a pound; gum-benjamin, five ounces; cloves, half an ounce. Beat the whole into powder, and...
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The Making of Beeswax Candles
What a variety of candles can be found today! The types of waxes have extended beyond the tallow and beeswax of our early ancestors to include parrafin, soy, and gel. There is even another type of wax which was...
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Found in 1870
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Transferring onto Glass
Colored or plain engravings, photographs, lithographs, water colors, oil colors, crayons, steel plates, newspaper cuts, mezzotints, pencil, writing, show cards, labels, or in fact, anything. DIRECTIONS. Take glass that is perfectly clear (window glass will answer) clean it thoroughly; the...
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Found in 1870
| Victorian Living 1840-1900
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