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 (1895)
Schriber, Fritz · New York : M.T. Richardson · leaf 114
110 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER, … Fig. 59. — Continued. The operation of gilding is fully explained in our chapter on scrolling, and needs no further allusion here, save that the gold is generally laid on directly from the book. The painter takes the book in the left hand and holding it near the job lifts the paper leaf, then with…
Carriage and wagon painting
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