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... kind of an adulterant which has lessened the proportion of color- ing matter to the same proportion that the adulterant contained in it bears to the pure . This test is especially valuable for all chemically made colors having well ...
... kind of an adulterant which has lessened the proportion of color- ing matter to the same proportion that the adulterant contained in it bears to the pure . This test is especially valuable for all chemically made colors having well ...
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... kind of an adulterant is required for heavy and light colors respectively ? 4a . What adulterant is mainly used in white lead ? · b . Is barytes used in adulterating colored pig- ments ? C. Are the pure food laws a complete protection ...
... kind of an adulterant is required for heavy and light colors respectively ? 4a . What adulterant is mainly used in white lead ? · b . Is barytes used in adulterating colored pig- ments ? C. Are the pure food laws a complete protection ...
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... kinds of work . The sign painter also uses them largely in both the quill bound and flat sizes for the one stroke letter shape so much in demand now days . BADGER HAIR . 19. Badger hair is the product of several animals belonging to the ...
... kinds of work . The sign painter also uses them largely in both the quill bound and flat sizes for the one stroke letter shape so much in demand now days . BADGER HAIR . 19. Badger hair is the product of several animals belonging to the ...
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... well to note " the whitewash heads " as some- times the painter is called upon to do that kind of work ; besides being an excellent tool to do calcimining with Flat Painter's Duster . 60 Fig . 7 . FLAT. 32 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... well to note " the whitewash heads " as some- times the painter is called upon to do that kind of work ; besides being an excellent tool to do calcimining with Flat Painter's Duster . 60 Fig . 7 . FLAT. 32 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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... kinds are numbered alike from No. I up to No , 12. Many kinds are only numbered to No. 6 . RED AND BLACK SABLE BRUSHES . 27. a . Black and red sable brushes to all intents D and purposes may be classed together , as they are. Fig . 27 ...
... kinds are numbered alike from No. I up to No , 12. Many kinds are only numbered to No. 6 . RED AND BLACK SABLE BRUSHES . 27. a . Black and red sable brushes to all intents D and purposes may be classed together , as they are. Fig . 27 ...
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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...