Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c20.s3: III. How to Make Glue
Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c20.s3
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III. How to Make Glue
c20.s3.1
“Whensoever they have occasion to use Glew, they make it after this fashion. They take the Curd of milk, and strain the water from it through a cloth. Then tying it up in a cloth like a Pudding, they put it into boyling water, and let it boyl a good while. Which done it will be hard like Cheese-curd, then mixing it with Lime, use it. If it be not for present use, they will roul up these Curds into a Ball; which becomes hard, and as they have occasion will scrape some of it off with a Knife, and so temper it with Lime. This Lime with them is as soft as Butter.”*
c20.s3.2
∗ *Robert Knox, ‘An Historical Relation of Ceilon,’ p. 96.*
c20.s3.3
Fig. 95A. ‘Śarapenda,’ from an old drawing in red, lent by Mr. T. B. Keppiṭipola, Basnāyaka Nilame, Embekke Dēvāle. × ⅓.