Recipes for art and craft materials

Book 1987

Instructions for making pastes, modeling compounds, papier-mâché, paints, inks, and numerous other materials for art and craft works.

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ISBN:

9780688073749
0688073743

Edition:

Revised edition

Description:

144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Target Audience Note:

5-8

Notes:

Includes index

Contents:

Pastes and glues: Thin paste
Paper paste
Classroom paste
Japanese rice paste, a transparent library paste
Instant-rice paste
Liquid rice paste
Resin papier-mache paste
Wallpaper paste
Paperhanger's paste
Stamp gum
Seal and envelope mucilage
Waterproof or glass glue
Bookbinding or leather glue
Collage or decoupage glue
Modeling compounds: Preparing natural clay
Quick and easy modeling dough
Play clay
Cooked salt-and-flour clay
Play dough
Creative play clay
Flour modeling dough
Brown bread modeling dough
Salt modeling clay
Sand and cornstarch modeling dough
Sawdust modeling compound
Soapsuds clay
Dryer-lint modeling material
Salt map mixture
Bread dough clay
Bread modeling dough
Rose petal bread dough
Gesso modeling dough
Gesso painting paste
Nutty putty
Papier-mache: Strip papier-mache
Pasted paper layers papier-mache
Basic papier-mache pulp
Salt papier-mache
Large figure or float papier-mache
Papier-mache mash
Extra soft papier-mache pulp
Finishing touches to papier-mache articles
Casting compounds: Mock marble
Imitation alabaster
Extra strong plaster of Paris (for casting)
Plaster of Paris mixture for dipping cloth
Slow-drying dipping mixture
Paints and paint mediums: Finger paint - variations
Bathroom finger paint
Simple egg tempera emulsion
Egg tempera emulsion
Old-fashioned gouache paint medium
Gouache paint medium
Gouache paint
Mucilage gouache paint medium
Casein paint memdium
Casein paint
Powdered-milk paint medium
Milk poster paint
Silk screen or poster paint
Watercolors
Marbleizing
Homemade coloring for paints and modeling clays
Frescoes
Oil pastel crayons
Oil paint medium for thinning and glazing
Inks: Transfer ink
Block printing ink
Block printing ink for fabric
Waterproof ink
Hectograph ink
Hectograph pad, a duplicating pad
Flower preservatives with cornmeal / with borax / with sand
Miscellaneous: Fixative
Crayon cloth design
Gesso ground for scratchboard
Crepe paper raffia
Colored flame solution
Fireplace log solution
Colorful burning pinecones
Crystal garden solution
Newspaper clipping preservative
Recycled paper

LCCN:

86034271

Control Number:

27665

Other Authors:

Shohet, Marti, illustrator

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