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Literary
April 5, 1903
Pine Bluff Daily Graphic
Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas
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A guide for children to create engravings-like impressions of leaves using oiled paper blackened with candle soot, by rubbing to transfer the image onto clean paper.
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LEAF PICTURES.
Any boy or girl may readily take a perfect impression of a leaf, or even a cluster of leaves, with very little trouble, and it will look about as nice as an engraving.
Take a piece of fine writing paper and oil it well, with either lard or sweet oil. Let it stand long enough for the oil to soak through, and then having wiped off the superfluous oil with a bit of paper, hang the oiled piece in the air to dry.
When the oil is well dried in, move the paper slowly over a lighted candle horizontally, so as to touch the flame, and keep this up until the paper is perfectly black with the soot.
Lay the blackened paper on a table, and on it the leaf of which you wish an impression. Put a piece of clean paper over the leaf and rub it with your finger equally in all parts for half a minute. This will transfer the soot to the leaf, just as a printer puts ink on type.
Take the leaf up very carefully, and just as carefully lay it, blackened side down, on the paper on which you wish to have the impression; then place a piece of blotting paper over the leaf, and rub it with your finger for a few moments, when you will have an impression that will look about as well as an engraving.
The blackened paper will serve for quite a number of impressions, and a very pretty collection of leaves may thus be made.
Any boy or girl may readily take a perfect impression of a leaf, or even a cluster of leaves, with very little trouble, and it will look about as nice as an engraving.
Take a piece of fine writing paper and oil it well, with either lard or sweet oil. Let it stand long enough for the oil to soak through, and then having wiped off the superfluous oil with a bit of paper, hang the oiled piece in the air to dry.
When the oil is well dried in, move the paper slowly over a lighted candle horizontally, so as to touch the flame, and keep this up until the paper is perfectly black with the soot.
Lay the blackened paper on a table, and on it the leaf of which you wish an impression. Put a piece of clean paper over the leaf and rub it with your finger equally in all parts for half a minute. This will transfer the soot to the leaf, just as a printer puts ink on type.
Take the leaf up very carefully, and just as carefully lay it, blackened side down, on the paper on which you wish to have the impression; then place a piece of blotting paper over the leaf, and rub it with your finger for a few moments, when you will have an impression that will look about as well as an engraving.
The blackened paper will serve for quite a number of impressions, and a very pretty collection of leaves may thus be made.
What sub-type of article is it?
Essay
What themes does it cover?
Nature
What keywords are associated?
Leaf Impressions
Soot Transfer
Nature Printing
Craft Instructions
Literary Details
Title
Leaf Pictures.
Form / Style
Instructional Prose