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 21
4 20 PAINTING. bound in tin and in string respectively. Varnishbrushes are somewhat similar in shapes to the fore-going, but are made of finer hog-hair than brushesused for painting. The subjoined represents an ovaltin-bound varnish brush and oval copper-wire-bound … 5A varnish brush. There are also round string-boundvarnish brushes, of which a diagram is appended :—
