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Paint your own Elijah's cup

tion and brotherhood. Such a
prophet deserves a regal wine cup.
Special to the Jewish News
The one shown here is beautiful,
easy to create, and will make a
t every Passover seder all
unique addition to your seder table.
over the world, four cups
Over the past few years, a number .
of wine are customarily
of
paints have come onto the market
drunk in the course of the
specifically
for painting permanently
seder. A fifth cup of wine is also
on glass. This ingenious process
poured but left untouched — the
involves a drying period and a bak-
cup of Elijah.
ing period in a slow oven, and the
Elijah was one of the Jewish peo-
results are dazzling.
I've chosen Porcelaine Paint
by Pebeo, a French product
that produces wonderful dense
tones on glass. This paint
comes in jars, for larger spaces,
or tubes for outline work.
Experiment with an old
juice glass before you start
with a wine glass, to get the
feel of the paint, the brushes
and the surface. You can't
make a mistake — if you don't
like what you've painted, wipe
it off and start over. The paint
isn't permanent until the bak-
ing process is completed.
The first step is to clean
your goblet by washing, drying,
and washing again with rub-
bing alcohol. Next, sketch your
designs on paper and tape to
the inside of the goblet, so that
you're really tracing. Use your
personal computer for your let-
tering — a fancy font in a large
point size makes it easier than
trying to do it freehand. Then,
paint your glassware and let it
sit for 24 hours untouched.
The final step is to place it in a
300 degree oven for 35 minutes
A wine cup like this, fit for a distinguished
to "set" the paint permanently
guest like Elijah the prophet, can be made with and make it washable. If you've
special new glass paints and your special designs. used a lot of paint, you should
leave your goblet in the oven
(Reprinted with permission from Jewish
for up to one hour.
Holiday Style, Simon 6- Schuster $27.50.)
This Elijah's cup was created
using round colored "gems"
from the craft store, and the
Pebeo
paint in tubes for the design
ple's greatest prophets. Elijah's cup of
and name. Let your creativity take
wine will be drunk when the world is
over — painted glass is becoming
ultimately freed from wars and injus-
tices. We will know when the time of increasingly popular and you may
want to use some of the new painted
this redemption is at hand because
florals for inspiration. You may also
Elijah will have the honor of appear-
want to use a colored glass goblet —
ing to announce the arrival of the
cobalt blue is available and very
Messiah, the person sent by God to
striking. ❑
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