The painters' encyclopædiaContaining definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ..and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used . Fig. 154.—Corner Designs for Striping. STRIPING. 379 completed drawing- represents what is termed aborder. The border is used chiefly on sleighbodies and showy wagon work, but occasionallyis in fa
The painters' encyclopædiaContaining definitions of all important words in the art of plain and artistic painting, with details of practice in coach, carriage, railway car, house, sign and ornamental painting, including graining, marbling ..and valuable hints and helps in scene painting, porcelain painting, plain painting, distemper painting, and all work in which a brush, pencil or palette is used . Fig. 154.—Corner Designs for Striping. STRIPING. 379 completed drawing- represents what is termed aborder. The border is used chiefly on sleighbodies and showy wagon work, but occasionallyis in fashion for carriages. In the styles hereshown, No. 1 is after the style of the Greek Fretor Meander, and it will be readily noticed that thesingle form resembles the letter S, but it hassquare instead of round corners. The dotted linesgive the spacing1 and proportions. There are fiveequal horizontal spaces, and six equal verticalspaces. For the horizontal stripes of the pattern,the first, third and fifth spaces are taken, and forthe vertical stripes, counting from the left, thefirst, fourth and sixth spaces are used. Thespaces are, therefore, the same width as the run-ning line. No. 2 was produced by doubling the former keypattern; that is, there are two of the S formsbrought together, which produce a resemblance tothe block T. The lines and spaces are otherwisethe same as in No. 1 No. 3 is
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