Wednesday, September 14, 2005

A Glue from my Archive

Found this in 'Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes (1926):

Glue for Leather or Cardboard.—To attach leather to cardboard dissolve good glue (softened by swelling in water) with a little turpentine and enough water in an ordinary glue pot, and then having made a thick paste with starch in the proportin of 2 parts by weight, of starch powder for every 1 part, by weight, of dry glue, mix the compounds and allow the mixture to become cold before application to the cardboard.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Guess what?! I've the exact same purse. I bought it from Lincoln in the UK. I stumbled upon your website because I was looking for information on the purse. I would like to know exactly where its made in. Let me know if you have any ideas. :) Naz

Clarence said...

I've also seen them in Hungary. If anyone has more info, it would be awesome!