Pipeclay |
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After much searching, I came up with the following formula for "pipeclay" and found it amusing enough to share:
From: Standing Orders, Forms of Returns, Reports, Entries, etc. of the Queen's Dragoons Guards; 1795 - "Take 6 pounds of the finest pipe-clay, pound it very small, put it in a tub, and put to it about 5 gallons of cold water. Let it remain for two or three days, stirring it now and then. Then take 6 ounces of gum dragon, and put it into 4 quarts of boiling water, and cover it up close for two or three days. When the gum is well dissolved, take a fine hair sieve, and strain it into the pipe-clay, and keep stirring the pipe-clay well all the time you are doing this. Then take half an ounce of stone blue, and dissolve it well amongst your colouring (this gives a clear gloss to the belts). Let it all remain one day longer, and it will be fit for use, putting it on lightly and evenly with a sponge." That sure makes me want to run right out and mix up a batch! Actually, the ingredients called for are all (apparently) readily available for other uses and under other names.I find it a bit unsettling however that "stone blue" is better known as copper sulfate pentahydrate, can be found at any good hardware store and is used to dissolve tree roots in septic piping. Yikes! |
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