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 (1903)
Schriber, Fritz · New York : M.T. Richardson · leaf 106
On gold lettering the shade always touches theedge of th? gold, but in paint letters a space is left betweenthe letter and shade, see Fig. 58. The shade never lookswell if made wider than the bars of the letter, and theangles formed by the end of the shade should be uniform,and should be determined… … Fig. 57.—Showing a Double Shade Blocked. Shading should be done in the same manner through-out a piece of work ; that is, if one line be shaded on theright side, all lines on the job must be done so. On redgrounds, gold letters are generally shaded with black, andthen the double shade is made by…
Carriage and wagon painting · Railroad cars
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