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 363
it fullness, and this is doneby simply dividing- each point into two shades ofcolor, taking a line from centre of star to point. Stenciling.—The application of ornamental designs,letters, etc., to a surface, by spreading color overa perforated pattern. It is a process which, byits simplicity, the… … Fig. 136.—Star Pattern. many, and its extensive use in the car shops, aswell as by decorators in dwellings, has brought itto favorable notice with the general public. In making stencil plates for various kinds ofwork, many different materials have been em-ployed—paper, metal, leather, oil-cloth,…
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