The Painters' & grainers' handbook : a complete illustrated guide to painting, graining, distempering, sign-writing, gilding, and glass embossing ... (1873)
Callingham, James · London : Brodie & Middleton : Simpkin, Marshall · leaf 140
GILDER S KNIVES. GILDING. A tip IS a sort of flat brush, made of a thin layerof some soft hair, and held together between two piecesof pasteboard. This brush can be obtained of differentwidths, and of various lengths of hair, and the priceranges from about 2d. to 3d. each. An illustration ofthe tip… … GILDING TIP. It is used for removing the gold leaf from the cushionto the part to be gilded. The tip should be drawnlightly across the face or hair, and then placed uponthe gold, when the moisture on the brush, derivedfrom the face, slight though it be, will cause the goldto adhere to it…
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