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... buildings . II . But it cannot really produce a blistering of paint without the concurring assistance of heat . 12. With the numberless essays which have been written and the endless discussions which have taken place at Painters ...
... buildings . II . But it cannot really produce a blistering of paint without the concurring assistance of heat . 12. With the numberless essays which have been written and the endless discussions which have taken place at Painters ...
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... buildings alike , if they absorb moisture - the wooden from imperfectly seasoned lumber and the others by capillary attraction from the earth or by defect in the roof or eaves , causing moisture to run down behind the paint . HEAT . 14 ...
... buildings alike , if they absorb moisture - the wooden from imperfectly seasoned lumber and the others by capillary attraction from the earth or by defect in the roof or eaves , causing moisture to run down behind the paint . HEAT . 14 ...
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... building . This class of blisters are very similar to the ones formed upon paint- ed surfaces too near a stove and other places subject to overheating . C. There is another instance where an upper paint coat will separate from an under ...
... building . This class of blisters are very similar to the ones formed upon paint- ed surfaces too near a stove and other places subject to overheating . C. There is another instance where an upper paint coat will separate from an under ...
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... buildings which have to be out in the weather all the time , summer and winter when the heat will almost boil water or get down below the o mark until mercury will freeze solid ? At first sight one would think that what was good enough ...
... buildings which have to be out in the weather all the time , summer and winter when the heat will almost boil water or get down below the o mark until mercury will freeze solid ? At first sight one would think that what was good enough ...
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... buildings there is nothing better than a coating of white lead or one of half white lead and half French ochre which ... building . 115. For brick , stone and other porous mineral sub- stances finely ground English Venetian red is ...
... buildings there is nothing better than a coating of white lead or one of half white lead and half French ochre which ... building . 115. For brick , stone and other porous mineral sub- stances finely ground English Venetian red is ...
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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...