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... becomes a benefit to the consumer , that is when confined to the well known trade custom limits —but unfortunately it is not always done , and in the dry colors especially , the coloring matter contained in some goods is little more ...
... becomes a benefit to the consumer , that is when confined to the well known trade custom limits —but unfortunately it is not always done , and in the dry colors especially , the coloring matter contained in some goods is little more ...
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... becomes heated by the hot sun it is turned into steam ; as it is prevented from evap- orating by the impervious coat of paint . In expanding itself into steam it forms a blister large enough to hold it under the paint which has been ...
... becomes heated by the hot sun it is turned into steam ; as it is prevented from evap- orating by the impervious coat of paint . In expanding itself into steam it forms a blister large enough to hold it under the paint which has been ...
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... become absorbed by the atmosphere but being prevented by the softened coats of paint above it , it expands itself into a blister large enough to hold it . Then either of two things happen : 1st the blister will burst and the condensed ...
... become absorbed by the atmosphere but being prevented by the softened coats of paint above it , it expands itself into a blister large enough to hold it . Then either of two things happen : 1st the blister will burst and the condensed ...
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... become used to sable hair claim them to be better than anything else . SABLE HAIR . 21. Sable hair of both the red and black variety are very highly esteemed by artists , decorators , sign writers and stripers . They are rather ...
... become used to sable hair claim them to be better than anything else . SABLE HAIR . 21. Sable hair of both the red and black variety are very highly esteemed by artists , decorators , sign writers and stripers . They are rather ...
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... become de- formed . The carriage trade , the wood finisher , sign writers , stripers , decorators , enamelers , lacquerers , art- ists , etc. , all use them to a greater or lesser extent . 23. This concludes the list of raw material ...
... become de- formed . The carriage trade , the wood finisher , sign writers , stripers , decorators , enamelers , lacquerers , art- ists , etc. , all use them to a greater or lesser extent . 23. This concludes the list of raw material ...
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adulterant applied artists barytes better blistering bronze brown burnt sienna burnt umber calcimine camel's hair carriage ceiling chrome green clean dark decoration distemper edge finishing fixed oils flat fresco gilding Girth give glass glazing glue gold leaf grainer Gray ground coat imitated inch Indian red iron ivory black japan kinds ladders lampblack lead for base light linseed oil look madder lake marble material medium chrome yellow metal mixed moisture nearly needed oil paint orange chrome yellow painter paragraph pigments plaster prepared priming produce proper Prussian blue putty quantity raw and burnt raw sienna raw umber rubbing second coat shades sign painting sizes sponge stains stencil stippling suit surface thinned tint-how tints tion tone transparent trifle turpentine ultramarine blue usually varnish brushes veining Venetian red wall paper water colors white lead wood zinc white
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Page 393 - It certainly is not in good taste to stain woods in colors which do not belong to them, as blues, greens, etc., and while this is a free country, etc., as long as a person is not sent to the penitentiary for committing outrages against nature, nor to insane asylums, it is very probable that the practice will go on undisturbed. But it is vulgarity, to say the least of the practice, and painters should not encourage it.
Page 63 - With all the cheap John sort of plastering that is being done by contractors at a price which would mean a sure loss to them if they used good material, but which must be done so as to make a profit anyhow, many of the surfaces the calciminer has to 'deal with will be found very porous and absorbing...
Page 448 - ... surface. The crepe paper, cheese cloth and burlap also produce fine, simple patterns but slightly different from each other. The heavy muslin when crumpled up into a wad gives an especially pleasing pattern resembling the figure of Spanish leather when done in the burnt umber or Van Dyke brown ovef a ground coat of ivory.
Page 63 - An ideal wall to work upon is one that will be sufficiently hard to have but little suction, nearly but not quite non-absorbent. The patent plastered walls left either in a...