The time of letters sealed with sealing wax is long over, now the wax seal is used in narrow industries for certain purposes and an extremely narrow circle of people. And if you decided to send your girlfriend a romantic letter with a seal, then you can do it, and quickly and easily, it is only necessary to stroll through the pages of our site. And after reading this article, you will learn what wax is made of, and what it is.
Surguchus and its properties:
Wax is a multicolored, meltable mixture. It is used to put seals and stamps on parcels and letters or packages.
Wax is a fairly strong but fragile material, and it should have a beautiful, bright, saturated color. It burns with a bright flame, and it should not smoke too much, nor should it stick to the seal.
Preparation of sealing wax:
It is necessary to carefully melt rosin (you can use shellac) in an enamel container, while heating it is necessary to stir constantly. When rosin is completely melted (rosin should not burn or boil) must be added turpentine, then it is necessary to add there gradually stirring the mixture of chalk, sulfur-barium salt.
You can dye sealing wax by adding mineral paints (vermilion, ochre, chromium yellow) to the hot mixture. To get brighter colors, you can use aniline colors, which are dissolved in grease. The main thing is that your paints should not be sensitive to temperature!!!
hen all your mixture is mixed you need to take a small amount and gently drop it on a wooden surface to see if your sealing wax has the desired properties (coloring, hardness and brittleness).
Once the mixture is ready, it should be poured into molds pre-lubricated with oil and heated.
Recipes for sealing wax:
1) Red (highest grade):
a) 8640 g of gum varnish, 3600 g of Venetian turpentine, 5760 g of the best vermilion, 135 g of Peruvian balsam,
b) Fuse: 12 shellac, 8 Venetian turpentine, 9
cinnabar, 3 magnesia, 2 turpentine.
2) The curds for the parcels:
a) 2,000 g of rosin, 1,000 g of pine resin,
30 g turpentine oil, 750 g chalk, 500 g turpentine.
3) Black plain sulphur:
a) Mix 6480 g of gum varnish, 3600 g of Venetian turpentine, 2880 g of chalk, 720 g of Dutch soot.
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