A manual for china painters, being a practical and comprehensive treatise on the art of painting china and glass with mineral colors (1907)
Monachesi, Nicola di Rienzi · Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard co. · leaf 255
232 A MANUAL FOR CHINA-PAINTERS roughness. In using these burnishers, rub the gold always one way, and rub hard. Burnishing is laborious, and it is no easy task to burnish a large surface. Scratches must be avoided at all hazards, and this is best accomplished by following … Burnishers. Gold will burnish better if it has not been han- dled, or allowed to come in contact with anything but the proper implements ; and if it can be done as soon as removed from the kiln, while still warm, all the better. After burnishing, polish with whiting or rouge, to give it a fine,…
China painting · Glass painting and staining · Colors
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