The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors . Fig. 59.—Continued. The operation of gilding is fully explained in ourchapter on scrolling, and needs no further allusion here,save that the gold is generally laid on directly from thebook. The painter takes the book in the left hand andholding it near the job lifts the paper leaf, then with thepoint of th
The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors . Fig. 59.—Continued. The operation of gilding is fully explained in ourchapter on scrolling, and needs no further allusion here,save that the gold is generally laid on directly from thebook. The painter takes the book in the left hand andholding it near the job lifts the paper leaf, then with thepoint of the book pointing downward, rolls the leaf uponthe size, a very easy method when once the knack is ac-quired. This brings us to the close of our observations on letter-ing. CHAPTER XIII. WAGON SCROLLING. Scrolling is an art acquired by but a few. In all theyreat city of New York those wlio can design and paint aRoman scroll for wagons, cars, etc., may be counted on th«finders of one hand. Scrolls in relief, or Roman scrolls,require close study, continued practice, and, more than all,an aptitude for such work, natural or inborn, and nonemay know whether they possess this faculty until theyhave tried and tried again, following perchance such direc-tions as are here given, or those fou
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