Ladies' manual of art : or, Profit and pastime : a self teacher in all branches of decorative art, embracing every variety of painting and drawing on china, glass, velvet, canvas, paper and wood : the secret of all glass transparencies, sketching from nature, pastel and crayon drawing, taxidermy, etc (1887)
Philadelphia : American Mutual Library Association · leaf 204
of etching can be obtained in anyvillage. There are also professed biters-in, who are employed byengravers. Etching on steel is done in precisely the same manner, onlythe biting-in fluid is much weaker. Etching Fluid for Copper. Mix two ounces aqua fortiswith five ounces water. Another is… … ENSIKGTON art work probably, at the ppes- ^ ent time, is attracting more attention than p) the other methods of painting on silk and velvet. Kensington embroidery had its day, and while it has not altogether passed out of use, it is nevertheless, like many other methods of arfc needle-work, being…
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