SEALING WAX

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 112, 14 May 1927, Page 20

SEALING WAX

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:'; Sealing wax. is perhaps less, jmporttat tfiaa it'was before mucilaged enTelopes came into use, but never was sealing wax. so versatile as now, iior so useful artistically, says tho "New |York Times." cMany a delicate decorative object that appears to be: enamel ■ware or carved and painted wood or coloured glass turns out to be merely .moulded sealing wax. Pendants , and heads and artificial flowers, plaques and yases -. and- candlesticks are among the objects beholden for their; beauty to this material. 'Moulding it, many, an untrained" woman .has done something in home craftsmanship. . •

A lump of sealing wax on the .end'of- » steel knitting needle melted over a-. flame and coiled in a glass of water, shaped with a moulder and decorated l>y melting in other colours becomes a handsome bead." A metal-rimmed pasteboard tag covered with warmed Sealing wax and embellished with drops of wax, shaped when soft into bunches of grapes, or flowers, becomes a "drop" to finish . the necklace. Earrings and pins and hat ornaments are made in the sameway. Sealing wax melted in denatured alcohol or. merely heated transforms ■carves and pocketbooks, placeJ cards, •nd WMtepaper baskets. An old vase with good lines bat undesirable colouring Domes out in unrecognisable glory, and an old lampshade takes on a new Patterns are not drawn. Figures cut from ■;f«ney papers and pasted on the object supply them. Then transparent amber -'-sealing wax is spread, and the .figures show through. Or else the figures are piled up in relief on top of the paper design, following its lines. Paper flowers are coated with sealing 'Wax to make handsomer, more durable fctoeeoas, of clusters arg given a crystal Ss^^?s . — —■ -"~