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 84
CAMEL-HAIR DOTTER. 83 MAPLE EYE SHADER. The mottlers used for mouldings in imitation of mapleare generally made of camel-hair, and are of variouswidths, the hair being somewhat short. The sub-joined illustration represents a camel-hair mottler :— … CAMEL-HAIR MOTTLER. Another kind of mottler, greatly prized by somegrainers, may be procured of Messrs. Brodie &Middleton, and is called the burnt-edge camel-hairmottler, the object being to present at the outset anarticle that possesses all the characteristics of a mot-tler that has been…