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... hard rub- ber 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 ...
... hard rub- ber 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 ...
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... hard to have but little suction , nearly but not quite non - absorbent . The patent plastered walls left either in a stipled rough state or covered over with a skim coat of plaster paris make an excellent surface to calcimine upon . But ...
... hard to have but little suction , nearly but not quite non - absorbent . The patent plastered walls left either in a stipled rough state or covered over with a skim coat of plaster paris make an excellent surface to calcimine upon . But ...
Page 65
... hard drying varnish will do the same thing and it is even intimated by some that gloss oil will do so . While this may be true in some instances , no one should be advised to put their trust in it and at best it should not be used if ...
... hard drying varnish will do the same thing and it is even intimated by some that gloss oil will do so . While this may be true in some instances , no one should be advised to put their trust in it and at best it should not be used if ...
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... hard- ships , great changes of temperature resulting from the inclemencies of the weather , why is it that such vehicles are painted in an entirely different manner than that used for the painting of buildings which have to be out in ...
... hard- ships , great changes of temperature resulting from the inclemencies of the weather , why is it that such vehicles are painted in an entirely different manner than that used for the painting of buildings which have to be out in ...
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... hard gums would be unable to fol- low the greater expansion and contraction of the under- coats where the linseed oil was used with the conse- quence that it would have to give or crack , which means the same thing , to accommodate ...
... hard gums would be unable to fol- low the greater expansion and contraction of the under- coats where the linseed oil was used with the conse- quence that it would have to give or crack , which means the same thing , to accommodate ...
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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...