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 80
. BRUSH-KEEPER. 73 Varnish, as a general thing, is delicate in itschoice of company; a little turpentine, a little oil,or a little of anything, except its own kind, willmake it liable to pit, or crawl, or flake, or cut upsome caper, and that dangerous little is frequentlysupplied by putting into… … Fig. 15.—Device for Preserv- Fig. 16.—Another Methoding Paint Brushes. of Preserving Brushes. without driers (expressly for the purpose). Thismaterial is not in the market and to procure it,one must order it from a varnish-maker. Sucha liquid will last for years without skining over,if care is…
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