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 74
is next in importance. It is well bound intin, hair set in glue, handle nicely japanned, andchisel-pointed. For varnishing small panels orparts of a body it has no equal. The best badger-hair is imported on the skin from Germany andRussia. Camels-Hair Brush.—For laying fine color nobetter brush can… … Fig. 7.—Camels-Hair Brush. by far the most appropriate, and most commonlyused. The hair used in these brushes, however,is not all taken from the camel, much of it beingfrom the tail of the Russian brown squirrel. Thehair is first cut from the tail with scissors, thewool or under fur combed out, and…
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