Дилетантъ. Руководство для любителей. Содержанщеее описанiе 30-ти способовъ проготовленiя различныхъ украшенiй. | Amateur. A guide for hobbyists. Includes a description of 30 ways to prepare various decorations. |Diletant". Rukovodstvo dlya lyubiteley. Soderzhanshcheye opisanie 30-ti sposobov" progotovleniya razlichnykh" ukrasheniy.
С.-Петербургъ Изданiе Эгерс и Ко, 1893. S.-Petersburg: Eggers and Co., 1893.
Hardcover, cloth, 80 [8 - ads] p., Russian, format: 18 13 cm.
Good condition, stickers with library numbers and notations in red crayon on the cover. Front pastedown slightly torn at the edge. On the title page, an entry in pencil in Russian: Библиотека Ремесленного училища им. М. Конарского [Library of the Warsaw M. Konarski Craft School].
The M. Konarski School of Crafts was established in Warsaw in 1885, as the second school of its kind in Warsaw, and was a three-class establishment with a six-year course of instruction. Michal Konarski, a wealthy landowner from the Podolia province who died in 1861, bequeathed his entire estate for educational and charitable purposes, and made the executor of his will the board of the Ziemski Credit Society in Warsaw.
Bibl.: Rainko, Ewa: Szkolnictwo zawodowe na ziemiach polskich do 1918 r. "Łomża Studies," 27, 2017, pp. [31]-64.
The book contains advice on decoration: etching and gilding of ornaments and letters on glass, imitation etching: artificial flowers on glass, frosted decorations on glass and metal, etching in pear wood, marble, metal, "Niello" alloy jewelry, painting metals, copying leaves and plants, embossing in leather, wax flowers, lampshades, paintings using dried plants, coloring photographs, drawing with soot, drawings on mirrors, Chinese and Japanese art, painting with egg paints (tempera), wax paints, colored sand, cutting in painted wood, drawings in wood and ivory, light drawings (pyrography), plastic (convex landscapes), paper sculptures. Additive: mixtures for bonding broken glass, porcelain, alabaster. For bonding glass to metal, stone, marble, amber, horn and chrysotile, ivory, leather, paper and cardboard, flexible compound for materials and stone, waterproof putty, waterproof glue, liquid paste, liquid patent glue.
