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... varnish brushes or fine brushes to lay color for the carriage trade , they even surpass the Russian on account of their greater fineness and smoothness . The black bristles known as Chinese bris- tles , do not all come from the Orient ...
... varnish brushes or fine brushes to lay color for the carriage trade , they even surpass the Russian on account of their greater fineness and smoothness . The black bristles known as Chinese bris- tles , do not all come from the Orient ...
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... varnish brushes made from it are very highly prized by the fur- niture wood finishing trades for certain 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 ...
... varnish brushes made from it are very highly prized by the fur- niture wood finishing trades for certain 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 ...
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... VARNISH BRUSHES . 1. Bristle varnish brushes are usaully made oval Fig . 10 - Coach Painters ' Spoke Brushes . and are bound with wire or by solid metal heads and with full length of bristle or chisel edged in many qual- FLAT GLUE 2IN ...
... VARNISH BRUSHES . 1. Bristle varnish brushes are usaully made oval Fig . 10 - Coach Painters ' Spoke Brushes . and are bound with wire or by solid metal heads and with full length of bristle or chisel edged in many qual- FLAT GLUE 2IN ...
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... Varnish Brushes . qualities . They are bound with wire or set in a solid metal head or band . In size they run from I inch to 21⁄2 inches in diameter . Figs . 18 and 19 illustrate the two bindings . Artists and decorators in both water ...
... Varnish Brushes . qualities . They are bound with wire or set in a solid metal head or band . In size they run from I inch to 21⁄2 inches in diameter . Figs . 18 and 19 illustrate the two bindings . Artists and decorators in both water ...
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Frederick Maire. 0 6 small brushes with either short , medium or long bristles. Fig . 15 - Oval Chiselled Varnish Brush . Fig . 16 - Fitch Varnish Brush . Fig . 88 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
Frederick Maire. 0 6 small brushes with either short , medium or long bristles. Fig . 15 - Oval Chiselled Varnish Brush . Fig . 16 - Fitch Varnish Brush . Fig . 88 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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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...