The industrial and artistic technology of paint and varnish (1917)
Sabin, Alvah Horton, 1851-1940 · New York, J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 491
e copal which they contain are too durable to be changed.' Sandarac, on the contrary, which is the base of spirit-of-wine varnish, is affected by the sun and cannot long resist it when made into a varnish. This one often sees in the heat of summer, when the spirit-of-wine varnish on the interior of… … This illustration represents a varnish-maker's furnace, date about 17^8; from the thirteenth volume of the Oeconomische Encydopedie. The fuel was charcoal. The resin was melted and the varnish made in the flask. The next book of importance was the "Painters' and Var- nishers' Guide," published in…
Paint · Varnish and varnishing
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