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 68
nddrawing it over the work, in most cases in the direc-tion of the combing, but occasionally crossing it.The hair of the brush, being thinly placed, will sepa-rate in patches, and hence the colour will be depositedin streaks, resembling the natural gradations which thewood invariably presents.… … And others again have a partiality for the fiat hog-hair brushes, separating the thin row of long hair intopatches when it is charged with colour :— END VIEW, SHOWING THICKNESS.
