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... priming or sub - coats and the superadded ones , as in that condition an air - tight overcoating of the upper layers of paint protect it from moisture ; but as soon as the natural decay of the linseed oil has fairly commenced , then the ...
... priming or sub - coats and the superadded ones , as in that condition an air - tight overcoating of the upper layers of paint protect it from moisture ; but as soon as the natural decay of the linseed oil has fairly commenced , then the ...
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... priming . For a more extended notice of this peculiarity of ochres the reader is referred to paragraph 79. The above two reasons why under which 99 % of all cases of blistering can be traced will suffice to explain the troublesome ...
... priming . For a more extended notice of this peculiarity of ochres the reader is referred to paragraph 79. The above two reasons why under which 99 % of all cases of blistering can be traced will suffice to explain the troublesome ...
Page 70
... priming or foundation coats . Even if that first priming coat could be put on with any other liquid vehicle that would do the same good that is expected of it — it is more than likely that there would be none used at all . Plate III ...
... priming or foundation coats . Even if that first priming coat could be put on with any other liquid vehicle that would do the same good that is expected of it — it is more than likely that there would be none used at all . Plate III ...
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... priming , linseed oil was used instead of japan and varnish as binder and vehicles , the varnish , which is composed mainly of hard gums would be unable to fol- low the greater expansion and contraction of the under- coats where the ...
... priming , linseed oil was used instead of japan and varnish as binder and vehicles , the varnish , which is composed mainly of hard gums would be unable to fol- low the greater expansion and contraction of the under- coats where the ...
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... preparatory work and blacks by long odds the most important in coloring coats , with a variety covering the whole chromatic scale in wagon and car painting . Plate IV . THE WORK PROPER - THE PRIMING . Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 75.
... preparatory work and blacks by long odds the most important in coloring coats , with a variety covering the whole chromatic scale in wagon and car painting . Plate IV . THE WORK PROPER - THE PRIMING . Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 75.
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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...