Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 240
ingand printing from the metal plate. The original pax withits impressions are preserved at Florence. Damascening is executed in three ways. First, wherethe steel or copper is engraved with an undercut line and METAL WORK. 22 I a thread of gold or silver is forced in by hammering orpressed by a… … Fig. 192.—Shield Damascened in Gold ; Indian. (B.) roughened by a sharp tool in all directions and the goldor silver is laid on thinly and pressed or hammered in.The last method is the latest and least durable. Some-times the lines of the engraving are punched with holes atregulated distances,…
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