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 91
y high orderof attainments, it should certainly be characterised bysome amount of artistic knowledge and refinement. The Patent Graining Tools—for it is to them werefer—seem to have found their way to the grainersworkshop, and may here be described. The grainii^roller consists of a frame and… … A v/orkman, who nas had some practical experienceof these rollers, writes— The leather of which the rollers are made is thickhide, prepared for the purpose in a certain manner. AND MARBLING. QI On one side of these the pattern is sketched, andthen the ground is cut away to a certain depth, justas a…
