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... Gilding , Graining , House Painting , Marbling , Oils and Driers , Oil Painting on Glass , Painting a Bath Tub , Painting in Distemper , Paperhanger's Tools , Paperhanging , Pigments , Scenic Painting , Sign Painting , Stains , Staining ...
... Gilding , Graining , House Painting , Marbling , Oils and Driers , Oil Painting on Glass , Painting a Bath Tub , Painting in Distemper , Paperhanger's Tools , Paperhanging , Pigments , Scenic Painting , Sign Painting , Stains , Staining ...
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... GILDING AND BRONZING . 143. a . Gilding is the name used to designate the art of laying on of gold leaf and binding it on to surfaces for the purpose of ornamentation . It is not a new art by any means , as it was practiced in very ...
... GILDING AND BRONZING . 143. a . Gilding is the name used to designate the art of laying on of gold leaf and binding it on to surfaces for the purpose of ornamentation . It is not a new art by any means , as it was practiced in very ...
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... gilding or gilded objects in their home , let that be as humble as may . If upon nothing else than a picture frame , or gilt - edged book or china cup . The use of gold leaf is it enormous and it is not confined to the decorations of ...
... gilding or gilded objects in their home , let that be as humble as may . If upon nothing else than a picture frame , or gilt - edged book or china cup . The use of gold leaf is it enormous and it is not confined to the decorations of ...
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... gilding as one may well infer , when even indoor the least breath of air will send it flying about like feathers . If the manufacturers would only use as good a quality of leaf for what is known as their " Stuck leaf " it would be all ...
... gilding as one may well infer , when even indoor the least breath of air will send it flying about like feathers . If the manufacturers would only use as good a quality of leaf for what is known as their " Stuck leaf " it would be all ...
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... Gilding in oil on wood and other surfaces is the method most usually adopted for gilding any kind of a surface exposed to the elements , a size must be used to cover all the parts to be covered with gold . It will depend upon what the ...
... Gilding in oil on wood and other surfaces is the method most usually adopted for gilding any kind of a surface exposed to the elements , a size must be used to cover all the parts to be covered with gold . It will depend upon what the ...
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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...