Arts, Craft & Skills

1867

Cement for China

This cement for china withstands both fire and water. With a small camel’s hair brush, rub the broken edges with a little carriage oil-varnish. If neatly put together, the fracture will hardly be perceptible and when thoroughly dry, will stand both fire and water.

Cement-cheap and valuable. A durable cement is made by burning oyster shells and pulverizing the lime from them very fine. Then mixing it with white of egg to a thick paste and applying it to the china or glass and securing the pieces together until dry. When it is dry it takes a very long soaking for it to become soft again.

Common lime will do but it is not so good. Either should be fresh burned and only mix what is needed for when once dry you cannot soften it.