. 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. 18, Showing a Breaking. in StHp~ following every outline of the de-sign ; then tie up in a piece of thinmuslin some whiting to form a pounce-bag. Lay the paper pat-tern upon the desired spot, holdingit firmly, or fasten it with tacks,and rub or pounce the whitingfrom the bag over it. The whitingwil
. 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. 18, Showing a Breaking. in StHp~ following every outline of the de-sign ; then tie up in a piece of thinmuslin some whiting to form a pounce-bag. Lay the paper pat-tern upon the desired spot, holdingit firmly, or fasten it with tacks,and rub or pounce the whitingfrom the bag over it. The whitingwill penetrate the holes and leavea well-defined outline on the work,which may be followed with thepencil and paint. Fig. 20 is a similar design. Thesecome under the head of flat scroll-ing, of which more anon. THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 03 ..t is the usual plan with ribbed bodies to black off theribs on all work painted in dark colors, such as green, blue,brown, etc., but where the job is light, as -vermilion,Paris green, cream or yellow, the contrast would be toogreat, and therefore the ribs are stribed on the chamfers. Fig. 19.—Showing aFinish for the End ofa Panel Stripe. Fig. 2d.—Showing an*other Style of Finishfor the end of a PanelStripe. lightening up th<. with a ^-inch stripe of black, thusappearance of the job. Ornamental corners nre frequently added, and particu 64 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. iarly where the panels are striped; but striping on thepanels of a ribbed job is very seldom seen, and then oncheap work only. GOLD STRIPING. Gold striping is done in the following manner: First,having the body well rubbed out of color-and-varnish withpulverized pumice stone and washed clean, it is necessaryto pounce over the entire panel on which the striping is togo, with the whiting pounce-bag. This leaves a thin frmof the powder on the surface and prevents the gold leaffrom sticking to any part not covered with gilding size.* GILDING SIZE. The
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