Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: draws a circle; if one outlines the flowers, it is still another who fills them up with colours. Some paint only mountains, some trees, some birds and animals, while others put in the men and women. No one does more than one sort of thing. Now though the Chinese are very poor artists, tasteless and uncouth; yet their colours have a beauty and brilliance which pur artists cannot equal. The ware is partially baked before it is painted, And it is then called biscuit. The gold is applied by itself, and the ware is baked again to fix it. The baking takes place in ovens built on purpose. Combustibles which yield the most flame, such as white dry wood, are best. Each piece of China is put into a mould of coarse clay, in order that it may keep its shape without warping, or being stained with smoke. The time they take in the oven is from a day and a half to two days. The operation of the fire is such as to half vitrify the substance. It is therefore opaque in the middle, and almost glass on the outer parts. The last operation, before the last baking, is the varnishing, or glazing, which is applied either with a fine brush, or by dipping the pieces in the prepared liquid, the substance of which is pounded glass. This is fused, that is, melted by the heat of the oven, and settles as a thin glass coat on the surface. No. 8. GLOUCESTER.?Pins.
What ! are pins, little trifling pins, all one shall see in Gloucester? Such a large, grand old city as that ? said George. There are many more things to be seen in Gloucester, certainly, said his father; but what I chiefly intend to take notice of is, the manner of making pins, which is not quite so trifling an affair as you seem to think it, seeing fifteen hundred persons are kept in employment by it.
Don’t you think, Emily, t…
