The painters' encyclopædia. Containing definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ... and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used (1887)
Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.) · New York, M.T. Richardson · leaf 208
n the lay-ing out of the letters. If it be the sides of a topwagon, where a circular line is desired, stick atack, or an awl into the floor or other place, inline of the centre, and tie a string to it, then witha piece of chalk, allowing the string to holdthe hand within the desired boundary,… … Fig. 39.—Laying Out Lettering. The lines being drawn for the extreme boundary ofthe letters at the top and bottom, it may be well,as some do, to mark lines for the top and bottombars of the letters. Spell out the words to be puton, and make a dot of chalk for the space of eachletter, and also for…
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