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 95
tionwith which the thick bates and pores of oak may beimitated by means of these rollers, which are madeof strips of leather, so placed that at short intervals-the broad sunk grain of the wo^d is imitated with anaturalness and facility quite beyond the reach of theordinary method of graining by… … 111 order to obviate the difficulty which arises fromthe larger rollers being unable to touch the tops andbottoms of deeply sunk panels, an arc or section of aroller has been introduced, by Avhich the pattern maybe formed quite contiguous to the mouldings, thehand-graining which was formerly…
