Cyclopedia of painting : containing useful and valuable information on the following subjects : adulteration of paint, blistering of paint, brushes, calcimining, carriage painting, china painting, colors, color harmony, color mixing, color testing, exterior painting, gilding, graining, house painting, marbling, mildew, oils and driers, oil painting on glass, painting a bath tub, painting in distemper, paperhanger's tools, paperhanging, pigments, plain oil painting, primary colors, priming, scenic painting, sign painting, stains, staining, stencilling, turpentine, varnishes, varnishing, water color painting, when not to paint, practical points on painting, useful information (1908)
Armstrong, George D · Chicago : F.J. Drake · leaf 23
, striving, struggling- and scrambling together infeverish rage, they are seized one by one, by the kak koffs,a class of laborers educated to plucking swine, a»nd theirbristles pulled out by the roots. The perspiration intowhich the poor creatures are thrown by their exercisecauses their bristles… … Fig. 3. Fitch Varnish Brush. his clothing and then immediately released, goes gruntingoff to the woods. The so-called French bristles are principally from Rus-sia stock, cleaned and bleached to render them white andexceedingly elastic, yet soft as an infants hair. Fromthese are made the fine…
