The Painter, gilder and varnisher's companion : containing rules and regulations in everything relating to the arts of painting, gilding, varnishing, and glass-staining : numerous useful and valuable receipts, tests for the detection of adulterations in oils, colours, & c. : and a statement of the diseases and accidents to which painters, gilders, and varnishers are peculiarly liable, with the simplest and best methods of prevention and remedy (1850)
Philadelphia : Henry C. Baird · leaf 16
AND VARNISHER's COMPANION. 11 RAWLINSON'S INDIGO GRINDING-MILL. Fig. 3. … A is a cylinder, made of any kind of marble ; but black marble is esteemed the best, because it is the hard- est, and takes the best polish. B is a concave muller, covering one-third of the circumference of the cylinder, and made of the same kind of marble vrith it : this is fixed in a wooden…
Painting, Industrial · Gilding · Varnish and varnishing · Pigments
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