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Page 58
... 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 under the name of calcimine ...
... 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 under the name of calcimine ...
Page 112
... wall paper . As the main base in mixing tints for calcimine or in its self color , it reigns supreme and nearly all the ready prepared calcimine found on the market contain it as the main ingredient in their preparation . As an adjunct ...
... wall paper . As the main base in mixing tints for calcimine or in its self color , it reigns supreme and nearly all the ready prepared calcimine found on the market contain it as the main ingredient in their preparation . As an adjunct ...
Page 218
... wall paper of the better sorts has some gold tracery upon it and in the higher grades it is put on by hand . Mould- ings and sculptured and carved parts on woodwork especially in the tasty and dainty - white and gold enamel finish . It ...
... wall paper of the better sorts has some gold tracery upon it and in the higher grades it is put on by hand . Mould- ings and sculptured and carved parts on woodwork especially in the tasty and dainty - white and gold enamel finish . It ...
Page 311
... which they are fastened and held . Another excellent tool is the graduated plumb and level . Fig . 63 - Paperhanger's Wheel Knives . Fig . 64 - Wall Paper Trimmer . Fig . 66 - Brush Keeper . Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 311.
... which they are fastened and held . Another excellent tool is the graduated plumb and level . Fig . 63 - Paperhanger's Wheel Knives . Fig . 64 - Wall Paper Trimmer . Fig . 66 - Brush Keeper . Modern Painter's Cyclopedia 311.
Page 313
... wall paper . One hears but little of this now , so the presumption is that whatever may have been the practice of wall paper manufacturers in the past , that now , at least , there are no poisons used in the colors used by them . As ...
... wall paper . One hears but little of this now , so the presumption is that whatever may have been the practice of wall paper manufacturers in the past , that now , at least , there are no poisons used in the colors used by them . As ...
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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...