Frosting Windows
Dear Aunt Daisy, I wonder if you can help me again. I want to "frost" some windows, and have an idea it can be done with Epsom Salts, but I don’t know the way you do it. Many thanks in anticipation. "Emma," North Auckland. One way of frosting windows is just to paint with a flat white paint, and dab with the end of the bristles, so that it "stipples" it and makes a design. But there is a prettier way, using the Epsom salts. Fill an empty one-pound tin one third full with gum arabic, Add a little hot water, and leave it to soak for several hours. When the gum is properly dissolved, add the same quantity of Epsom ‘salts. Stand the tin in a basin of hot water, and stir well. While still hot apply to the glass with a brush. This is imptoved by "stippling" with the brush, too-just dab the brush on all over when it is painted.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 393, 3 January 1947, Page 23
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165Frosting Windows New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 393, 3 January 1947, Page 23
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