BROKEN CHINA MENDED
Aberdeen Girl’s Career
The task of mending broken china or precious glassware needs patience, great skill and a knowledge of the history of glassware and china. Six years ago, a girl leaving school in Aberdeen decided that she would make this kind of work her career. To-day. Sheila Milne, aged 24, has a flourishing business. Her studio in the Upperkirkgate is a colourful and sometimes chaotic clearing house for glass and pottery of all descriptions, al! of it badly damaged. This comes from all over Scotland and the North of England. Some even is Sent from Ireland, often in boxfuls. Much of it looks more suitable for the dustheap than for repair, but Sheila, with the help of an assistant, restores it to its former beauty and colour. First, the articles are carefully washed, then the breaks are cemented and even the tiniest pieces put back with infinite patience. Each article is put into an oven, heated to the right temperature, to bake hard. Finally, after testing it in boiling water to make sure that the repair is holding. Sheila paints it in its original colours. There are very few breakages which she will not agree to restore.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29108, 21 January 1960, Page 2
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