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... size package used to pack the pure color would have to be greatly increased to accommodate the larger bulk of the adulterant needed to make up the weight . This would at once give it away in the mind of one who is at all familiar with ...
... size package used to pack the pure color would have to be greatly increased to accommodate the larger bulk of the adulterant needed to make up the weight . This would at once give it away in the mind of one who is at all familiar with ...
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Frederick Maire. longest to the shortest . But even in the smaller sizes the Russian hog bristles are superior to all others in elasticity and wearing qualities . The so - called French bristles into which class nearly all other European ...
Frederick Maire. longest to the shortest . But even in the smaller sizes the Russian hog bristles are superior to all others in elasticity and wearing qualities . The so - called French bristles into which class nearly all other European ...
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... 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 same family , " the marmotte ' or " mar- mouse " to which the badger and our famous ...
... 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 same family , " the marmotte ' or " mar- mouse " to which the badger and our famous ...
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... sizes , it will be impossible to give all these in " illustrations . " In the description the various sizes that each is made up in will be given . a . The calcimine brush is probably the largest and most expensive brush made for the ...
... sizes , it will be impossible to give all these in " illustrations . " In the description the various sizes that each is made up in will be given . a . The calcimine brush is probably the largest and most expensive brush made for the ...
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... is usually wire or cording or set in a solid rubber head . The sizes run by o from 1.0. Fig . 3 - Stucco Wall Paint Brush . Fig . 4 - Stucco Wall Paint Brush . Round Painter's Duster . Fig . 6 . Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 31.
... is usually wire or cording or set in a solid rubber head . The sizes run by o from 1.0. Fig . 3 - Stucco Wall Paint Brush . Fig . 4 - Stucco Wall Paint Brush . Round Painter's Duster . Fig . 6 . Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 31.
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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...