Gum arabic just was not quite doing it, so I bought some varnish (Daler Rowney)! Oh, and some cleaner (I read a review online that said I needed it, so I did). Did it work?
Ha! Tricked. That was just the design. It’s from the Broug book again - from the Tomb of Bibi Jawindi in Pakistan.
Ok, calm down. Unfortunately you can see the problem here with my terrible photography:
I assure you, gentle reader, that it actually looks great. Also the ‘Bartoline’ cleaner worked fine.
The final result in on Etsy as always with a video also.