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 70
AND MARBLING. 6a graining requires softening with a badger softener, otwhich an iUustration is appended. … COMB FOR DIVIDING OVERGRAIN-ERS. These combs are 6 inches long, and have the sameteeth throughout as in the engraving. The doubleare 7 inches long, one-half being fine and the othercoarse, like a dressing-comb, but the teeth are cut insuch a manner as to cause the hair to divide with asharp edge at…
