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 . 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-def
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 . 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. These Fi(l. IS, Showiruj Break in SI fin- come under the head of fiat scroll-ing, ing, of which more anon. THE COMPLETE < VRRIAGK AND WAGON lYINTER. «s vt is the usual plan with ribbed bodies to black off theribs on all work painted in dark colors, sucb as green, blue,brown, etc., but where the job is light, as green, cream or yellow, the contrast would be toogreat, and therefore the ribs are <trioed on the chamfers. Fig. -Sh o wi ng aFinish for the End ofa Panel Stripe. Fig. 20.—Showing a/i-other Style of Finishfor the end of a PanelStripe. with a TVinch stripe of black, thus lightening up th«.appearance of the job. Ornamental corners are frequently added, and particu- ft4 THE COMPLETK ( ARIUAtil AND WAGON PAINTER. larly where the panels are striped: bat striping on thepanels of a ribbed job is very seldom seen, and then oncheap work only. GOLD STRIPINU. Gold striping is done in the following manner: First,having the body well rubbed out of eolor-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 the powder on the surface and prevents the gold lealfrom sticking to any part not covered with gilding size.* GILD
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