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... marble . b . The material used consists mainly of coarse min- eral paints which all the supply stores sell under the name of fillers , and these are combined with white lead . They are mixed in the proportion of 3 parts of the filler to ...
... marble . b . The material used consists mainly of coarse min- eral paints which all the supply stores sell under the name of fillers , and these are combined with white lead . They are mixed in the proportion of 3 parts of the filler to ...
Page 172
... 5c IC 6c 120 7c 134C 8c 2C . 9c 24C IOC 220 Graining edges of shelves , per foot , 11⁄2c . Graining sashes double the price of plain painting . MARBLING SQUARE MEASURE . White Marble , per yard ... 172 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... 5c IC 6c 120 7c 134C 8c 2C . 9c 24C IOC 220 Graining edges of shelves , per foot , 11⁄2c . Graining sashes double the price of plain painting . MARBLING SQUARE MEASURE . White Marble , per yard ... 172 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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Frederick Maire. MARBLING SQUARE MEASURE . White Marble , per yard ... Other kinds , per yard .. Varnishing , each coat , per yard . . $ 0.75 1.00 .12 LINEAL MEASURE . All members from Marbl- Varnish- ing ing I to 8 inch girth , per foot ...
Frederick Maire. MARBLING SQUARE MEASURE . White Marble , per yard ... Other kinds , per yard .. Varnishing , each coat , per yard . . $ 0.75 1.00 .12 LINEAL MEASURE . All members from Marbl- Varnish- ing ing I to 8 inch girth , per foot ...
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... architectural structures , bridges , ships , etc. , eagerly combines with oxygen to form oxyde of iron or rust . Limestone , marbles , and other form of lime are very hungry for sulphurous acid fumes of which Modern Painter's Cyclopedia ...
... architectural structures , bridges , ships , etc. , eagerly combines with oxygen to form oxyde of iron or rust . Limestone , marbles , and other form of lime are very hungry for sulphurous acid fumes of which Modern Painter's Cyclopedia ...
Page 260
... marbles and other variegated stones is a very attractive and interesting section of the painter's trade - one almost feels like saying art ; for to produce a good imitation of them is artistic . To be able , then , to imitate them the ...
... marbles and other variegated stones is a very attractive and interesting section of the painter's trade - one almost feels like saying art ; for to produce a good imitation of them is artistic . To be able , then , to imitate them 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...