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The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors (1899)

Schriber, Fritz · New York : M.T. Richardson · leaf 55

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sequently a uniform stripe over all parts of the work. The hair for striping pencils should be at least two and a quarter inches long — if too long the hairs will droop or sag down, and if too short, a straight line cannot be made. Ox-hair pencils, also used in striping, are made from the hair… … Fig. 10.— Striping Pencils. The proper position of the hand while striping the rim Of a wheel is shown in Fig. 11. The pencil is held between the thumb and fore-finger and the other fingers act as a gauge or guide. During the striping, the wheel is kept revolving by the left hand, while the pencil…

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