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 20
r being the largest. These are made bothround and oval, and are bound either in copper wireor string. The oval-shaped brushes are now much invogue, and no doubt are to be preferred to the old-fashioned round ones, inasmuch as they require lessw^orking to get them into a suitable shape for… … I 2 2A latter copper. The smaller kinds of brushes arecalled sash-tools, and vary in size from No. i toNo. 12, The illustrations below represent a sash-tool
