Producing Marble on Gilt Edges
If gilt, silver or aluminium edges are to be marbled, they must be thoroughly dried, burnished slightly and rubbed off with a small piece of linen, silk or leather, and any blemishes or spots from which the gold or other metal has blistered must be repaired.
The dull gilt-edge is now to be moistened by means of a soft brush with a solution of powdered alum in hot water after this has formed a thin paste.
The marbling of the gilt-edge is executed in the usual way, before the layer of alum is entirely dried. After the completion of the marbling the edge must be washed with water until it is entirely clean.
After the edge has become dry, it is rubbed with a waxed rag and burnished over.
For marbling, the common marbling colors can be used.
It remains only to add that too dry edges do not take marbling colors readily.
Footnotes
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