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... gold leaf workers . They are bound in quill and of various sizes grading by numbers from No. I to No. 12. See Fig . 34 . OX HAIR BRUSHES . 26. a . Ox hair flowing varnish brushes are very highly prized by many wood finishers . They are ...
... gold leaf workers . They are bound in quill and of various sizes grading by numbers from No. I to No. 12. See Fig . 34 . OX HAIR BRUSHES . 26. a . Ox hair flowing varnish brushes are very highly prized by many wood finishers . They are ...
Page 211
... preparing of tints , all kinds of dry pigments excepting such as are noted as unsafe to use in water colors under the heading of " Colors . " Gum arabic glue , and gold leaf besides all the bronzes , Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 211.
... preparing of tints , all kinds of dry pigments excepting such as are noted as unsafe to use in water colors under the heading of " Colors . " Gum arabic glue , and gold leaf besides all the bronzes , Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 211.
Page 212
Frederick Maire. glue , and gold leaf besides all the bronzes , metallics , flitters , etc. b . For oil work : White lead and zinc white ground in oil . All the various pigments which are to be found ground in oil may be used in ...
Frederick Maire. glue , and gold leaf besides all the bronzes , metallics , flitters , etc. b . For oil work : White lead and zinc white ground in oil . All the various pigments which are to be found ground in oil may be used in ...
Page 215
... 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 early days . Many persons who will read this have no doubt had the privilege of examining some 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 early days . Many persons who will read this have no doubt had the privilege of examining some of ...
Page 216
... gold in decoration is nearly as old as civilization itself and it would be hard to find some of the recently discovered remains of their vanished civil- ization without also finding that gold ... leaf is it enormous and it is not confined to ...
... gold in decoration is nearly as old as civilization itself and it would be hard to find some of the recently discovered remains of their vanished civil- ization without also finding that gold ... leaf is it enormous and it is not confined to ...
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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...