Or dissolve with gentle heat 2 ounces of white wax and 3 ounces of turpentine. Stir in 1 ounce of ivory black and 1 dram of indigo. Apply while warm a very thin coat with a brush, and polish with a soft brush or cloth. Apply to harness which has previously been washed and oiled.
Or dissolve with gentle heat in a double boiler 1 pounds of stearin in 2i pounds of turpentine. Stir con stantly while heating. When dis solved, stir in 1 ounce of ivory black; remove from the fire, and stir con stantly until cold, otherwise it will crystallize and the ingredients will separate. Apply warm with a cloth a very thin coat and partially dry. Polish with silk or chamois. This gives a very high gloss and does not injure the leather.
Or cut fresh lard with kerosene oil, and add ivory black to color. Apply warm with a brush. This is cheap, handy, and generally useful.
Or melt 2 ounces of black rosin, and add 3 ounces of beeswax. Re move from the fire, and add ounce of ivory black and dram of Prus sian blue. Rub up smoothly to gether and thin to soft paste with turpentine. Apply with a cloth and polish with a brush.
Or melt 2 ounces of mutton suet and .6 ounces of beeswax. Add 6 ounces of brown sugar, 2 ounces of castile-soap jelly, and 1 ounce of in digo. Melt with gentle heat, mix, and stir in 1 gill of turpentine. Apply with a sponge or cloth and polish with a brush.
Black Varnish Jet or Polish for Leather.—Dissolve with gentle heat 3 sticks of any color of sealing wax desired in 1 pint of 95 per cent alco hol, and apply warm with a sponge or brush. For carriage bodies, dash boards, and the like, apply first, to save extra coats, a dye of copperas water or logwood, and afterwards lay on the varnish.
Or to 1 gallon of alcohol add 1 ounce of sulphuric acid. Stir in pounds of gum shellac. Let stand 2 or 3 days or until dissolved, and add 4 ounces of ivory black. Let stand 24 hours and pour off the thin liquid from the top. This recipe is waterproof and is a suitable polish for all leather. It is a commercial article which sells on the market at about 25 cents an ounce.
Black Balls for Leather.—Melt to gether 2 ounces of lard, 8 ounces of neat's-foot oil, 2 ounces of wax, and 8 ounces of brown sugar in 8 ounces of water. Bring the whole to a boil, and stir in 10 ounces of ivory black. Remove from the fire and stir con stantly until it cools, then roll into balls two inches in diameter.
Or melt 4 ounces of tallow and 2 pounds of beeswax, and add 4 ounces of lampblack mixed with 4 ounces of gum arabic. Stir together and roll into balls.
Melt together beeswax, 8 ounces; ivory black, 2 ounces; turpentine, 1 ounce; Prussian blue ground in oil, 1 ounce, and copal varnish, ounce. Make into balls.