A practical manual of house-painting, graining, marbling and sign-writing : containing full information on the processes of house-painting in oil and distemper, the formation of letters and practice of sign-writing, the principles of decorative art, a course of elementary drawing for house-painters, writers, etc., and a collection of useful receipts ; with nine coloured illustrations of woods and marbles, and numerous wood engravings (1888)
Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878 · London : C. Lockwood & Son · leaf 244
cut out the letters with a flat chisel-like toolor two, which may be purchased under the name ofmodelling tools, at 3^. or 4d. each, or they may be OF RAISED AND INCISED LETTERS. 217 easily made out of pieces of fire-wood^—one beingflattened and sharpened off like a broad chisel, andthe other… … Fig. 47. An inscription in letters in the last describedcharacters, when executed in gold on a highly polishedblack surface, has a very line effect, the gold beingshaded with burnt sienna. t CHAPTER XXX. METHOD OF GILDING LETTERS. In order to overcome the tackiness ^ of a newlypainted surface,…
House painting · Sign painting · Lettering
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