Painting and painters' materials: a book of facts for painters and those who use or deal in paint materials (1883)
Condit, Charles L, Scheller, Jacob · New York, The Railroad gazette · leaf 80
ges tend inone direction (except those corresponding to themedullary rays), and this direction is z£////^ the grain ofthe wood. Any strain or movement of particles will. Priming Wood. jj therefore, tend to accumulate on this line, which willopen cracks across the grain. The attachment to thepaint… … since oil contracts in drying, this hold is only occa-sionally a strong one. To protect the paint we must protect the wood par-ticles to which it is attached. We can best do this byfilling the cells to which the wood holds ; a thin oilwill soak their surface, but it is difficult to fill them.I have…
Painting, Industrial · Paint
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from M. Vitrvvii viri svae professionis pertissimi De architectvra libri decem, ad Avgvstum Cæsarem accuratiss. conscripsit & nvnc primvm in Germania qva potuit diligentia excusi, atq[ue] hinc inde schematibus non iniucundis exornati (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-mvitrvviivirisva00vitr-104-28.webp)
