An Important Improvement in Shoes and Boots from the London Chronicle
Item
Title
An Important Improvement in Shoes and Boots from the London Chronicle
Transcript
Take one pint of drying oil two ounces of Yellow wax two ounces of Spirits of Turpentine one ounce of Bergendy pitch melted carefully over a slow fire: with this composition rub shoes, boots are to be rubbed in the sun, or at a distance from the fire with a sponge as often as they become dry. untill they are fully saturated the leather then is impervious to wet. the shoes & boots last much longer acquire softness and pliability and thus prepared. are the most effectual prevenatives against cold and chiblaines.
The above method of preparing water-proof Leather at a very small expence will be found invariably to succeed
The above method of preparing water-proof Leather at a very small expence will be found invariably to succeed
Subject
Drying oil See all items with this value
Yellow wax See all items with this value
Spirts of Turpentime See all items with this value
Bergundy wine See all items with this value
Contributor
Le, Vincent
Source
Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher
George Mason University Libraries
Rights
Public domain. There are no known restrictions.