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1.
Cream of tartar
..... 8 ounces
Oxalic acid
... 1 ounce
Alum
..
1 ounce
Milk
... 3 pints
Mix and
rub on the shoes. When they are thoroughly dry, rub them with a mixture
of prepared chalk and magnesium carbonate.
2.
Water
. 136 parts
Fine pipe clay
.. 454 parts
Shellac, bleached
136 parts
Borax, powdered
. 68 parts
Soft soap
..
8 parts
Ultramarine blue
..... 5 parts |
Boil the shellac in the water, adding the borax, and
keeping up the
boiling until a perfect solution is obtained, then stir
in the soap
(5 or 6 parts of ivory soap, shaved up and melted with 2
or 3
parts of water, is better than common soft soap), pipe clay, and
ultra marine. Finally strain through a hair-cloth sieve. This
preparation, it is said, leaves absolutely nothing to be desired.
A good
deal of stiffness may be imparted to the leather by it.
The addition of
a little glycerine would remedy this. The old application
should be
wiped away before a new one is put on. This preparation
is suitable for
military shoes, gloves, belts, and uniforms requiring a
white dressing. |
