Recipe for Sizing Canvases
Place 1 Litre of cold tap water with 70 Grams of Rabbit Skin Glue granules or pulverized Rabbit Skin Glue, stirring a little ensures there are no lumps and leave to soak overnight if you used granules. Pulverized Rabbit Skin Glue should be ready in 3 to 4 hours. It will soak all the water and should be swollen and soft to the touch.
Place the pre-soaked Rabbit Skin Glue container in another, containing only fairly hot water, and stirring to distribute heat evenly. The glue will melt into a soft jelly. If there are lumps strain it. Do not boil your glue or it will lose it’s adheseive poperities.
Brush it on into the canvas weave but thinly, making sure the glue went into every single thread and space in the weave.
Leave to dry and then apply another 1 or 2 coats, always thinly leaving to dry completely before applying the next one.
Lightly sand the last coat, to give a smoother surface ready for priming. NOTES: For sizing a board panel on both front and back sides, follow the above recipe but employ 100 Grams of dry granules instead.
Recipe for Sizing Canvases and Panels
Measure, all by volume, 1 part of dry pulverized or granulated Rabbit Skin Glue and 10 parts by volume cold tap water, stir a little ensure there are no lumps and leave to soak overnight if you used granules.
Pulverized Rabbit Skin Glue should be ready in 3 to 4 hours. It will soak all the water and should be swollen and soft to the touch.
Place the pre-soaked Rabbit Skin Glue container in another, containing only fairly hot water, and stirring to distribute heat evenly. The glue will melt into a soft jelly. If there are lumps, sieve the jelly through a fine metal mesh sieve.
Brush it on into the canvas weave but thinly, making sure the glue went into every single thread and space in the weave.
Leave to dry and then apply another 1 or 2 coats, always thinly leaving to dry completely before applying the next one. Lightly sand the last coat, to give a smoother surface ready for priming.
NOTES: For sizing a board panel on both front and back sides, follow the above recipe but employ 100 Grams of dry granules instead.
