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Painting and decorating (1898)

Pearce, Walter John · London : C. Griffin · leaf 136

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ssrs. Mander, of Wolverhampton, have recently issued a bookgiving actual specimens of their principal colours painted fullstrength, and also reduced by so many parts of white lead orzinc white. This is an admirable plan, and altogether safeguardsthe buyer, who has only to experiment likewise with… … A.NGINGS have been used for the coveringup and embellishment of wall surfacesfrom the earliest times. Probably thefirst of the kind were skins of beasts.Then with the introduction of weavingcame woollen and fibrous cloths, plainor embellished by needlework or paint-ing. Leather was a further…

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