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... paste brush is specially made so as to rub out paste easily , but many paper hangers use a worn out calcimine brush instead . It is illus- trated in Fig . 24 . r . Paper hangers ' smoothing brushes are made from one to four rows of ...
... paste brush is specially made so as to rub out paste easily , but many paper hangers use a worn out calcimine brush instead . It is illus- trated in Fig . 24 . r . Paper hangers ' smoothing brushes are made from one to four rows of ...
Page 46
... Paste Brush . material than sable capable of carrying heavy colors . The size ranges by 4 inch gradation up to 1 inch wide . Fig . 26 . See Fig . 35 , which also illustrates all other. Fig . 25 - Paperhanger's Smoothing Brush . Fig . 27 ...
... Paste Brush . material than sable capable of carrying heavy colors . The size ranges by 4 inch gradation up to 1 inch wide . Fig . 26 . See Fig . 35 , which also illustrates all other. Fig . 25 - Paperhanger's Smoothing Brush . Fig . 27 ...
Page 58
... pasted upon them in the shape of wall paper , which after all , is but - watercolored paper . Many persons become confused by the same thing being called by so many different names . The decor- ator hardly likes to have his work known ...
... pasted upon them in the shape of wall paper , which after all , is but - watercolored paper . Many persons become confused by the same thing being called by so many different names . The decor- ator hardly likes to have his work known ...
Page 79
... paste and the same ground up in a shop paint mill and afterward thinned in the same proportion of linseed oil and japan . It should be applied as stiff as it can be worked , with a half worn out stiff bristle brush . After it has been ...
... paste and the same ground up in a shop paint mill and afterward thinned in the same proportion of linseed oil and japan . It should be applied as stiff as it can be worked , with a half worn out stiff bristle brush . After it has been ...
Page 82
... paste in a thinner composed of equal parts of quick rubbing varnish and japan , thinned to the proper working consistency with turpentine . There are a number of other methods of mixing rough stuff , but the one given is that 32 Modern ...
... paste in a thinner composed of equal parts of quick rubbing varnish and japan , thinned to the proper working consistency with turpentine . There are a number of other methods of mixing rough stuff , but the one given is that 32 Modern ...
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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...