Don't let the glue dry on glass bowls, dishes or other items either. Hide glue will adhere to the microscopic pores in the glass and pull ships and sheets of glass apart!!!
I use the same Rabbit Skin glue granules that I used to use for making glue chipped glass signs with gold leaf. Just etch your design in the glass with acid and spread rabbit skin glue on it and as the glue shrinks it chips big chips and flakes out of the surface of the glass (where the etch is). Beautiful stuff but keep it covered as it's drying or it's glass shrapnel around the whole room! Then you can apply gold leaf by using a water thin glue (size) made with knox or empty gelatin capsules then sealing the back with paint and varnish.
Rabbit skin glue is also mixed with whiting to make old style gesso to prime and shrink stretch a painter's canvas.
Look for it at an artists supply place.
