also in apartments where furniture, carpets, etc., encumber a room so that stepladders and scaffolding is not to be thought of, a long handle can be set in the whitewash head and the work of calcimining a ceiling done from the floor. They come in widths ranging from 6 to 9 inches. They are bound to the wooden head by either metal bands or leather. The illustration shows the leather bound. See Fig. 7.

h. Sash tools are made either round or oval full length of bristle or chisel edge. They are bound by cording, wire, a solid metal head or set in a hard rubber head and in many qualities of material. They come in numbered sizes, No. 1 being the smallest, to No. 10 the largest. See Fig. 8 for the full length hair and Fig. 9 for the chisel edge shapes.

i. Coach painters' spoke brushes run in sizes from No. 1 to 3 and are used chiefly by the carriage trade, but they are also very useful for a number of purposes in general painting where a long but slim brush is to be used. Decorators in water colors will also find them a handy tool for coves, etc. See Fig. 10.

j. Glue brushes are usually metal bound and well set. They run in sizes from ooo to No. 4 or from 5% inch to 11⁄2 inch in diameter. See Fig. 11. They are also made flat, metal bound, and from I inch to 6 inches wide. The flat brushes are also made chisel edged. See Fig. 12.

k. Painter's car scrub brushes are made from very stiff bristles and run in sizes from No. 4 to No. 6. It

is a very useful tool to the carriage painter. See

Fig. 13.

BRISTLE VARNISH BRUSHES.

1. Bristle varnish brushes are usaully made oval

Fig. 10-Coach Painters' Spoke Brushes.

and are bound with wire or by solid metal heads and with full length of bristle or chisel edged in many qual

ities and sized by o from 1.0 the smallest, to 8.0 the largest. All have flattened wooden handles, Fig. 14 showing the full length and Fig. 15 the chisel edge shapes. Fig. 15 also shows the solid metal head

There are also a number of different qualities of flat

varnish bristle brushes from very good to very poor single thick, double thick, full length bristle to chiseled edge. The shapes vary very much as well as that of

the handles. The two Figs. 16 and 17 will suffice to show the leading shapes. Like all flat brushes they are sold by the inch, being made from I inch to 4 inches, graded by half inches between.

Coach painters and many others use a brush made up very much like the one shown in Fig. 15, and which is known as a coach painter's color brush.

m. Stencil brushes are used for the purpose indicated by their name. Like all the rest there are many

Fig. 14-Gloss Oval Varnish Brushes.

qualities. They are bound with wire or set in a solid metal head or band. In size they run from I inch to 21⁄2 inches in diameter. Figs. 18 and 19 illustrate the two bindings.

Artists and decorators in both water and oil colors use a number of round, flat and triangular shaped