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Title: The painters' encyclopædia. Containing 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Gardner, F. B. (Franklin B.)
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York, M.T. Richardson
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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. Plaster of Paris is often added to whiting andthe whole mixed with clear water, the plaster act-ing- as a binder, and it is certainly far more clean-ly, as there is no liability of its being affected bydamp as in the case of animal size. Comminuted or finely powdered glue has of lateyears become an article of commerce, and itsadaptability for mixing with whiting in properproportions to form Distemper or Kalsomine whenwet with boiling water, has been taken advantageof, and now one may purchase almost any desiredtint of prepared or dry kalsomine at a village 112 DOTTER. store. A good wall brush (see Brushes) should beused to apply distemper colors to a large surface,a common white-wash brush being* unfit for thepurpose. Dotter.—A tool used in graining-, made by rolling apiece of cloth saturated with graining color untila point is formed; this point must, however, beopen like the aperture of a funnel, but semicircularin shape, and with this the dots or eyes of maplewood are imitated.
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Fig. 20.—Double Shaded Letters. Double Shade.—In lettering or scrolling the doubleshade is frequently used. It consists of an addi-tional width in the ordinary shade (or properly,thickness) of a letter added in some other color, asfor example: a black shade upon a red groundwould be double shaded by another of same widthin carmine, or a glazing of asphaltum. The ideabeing to blend the intense contrasting shade tothe ground color. (See Lettering.) Dragons Blood.—A resinous substance from thejuice of a plant found in the East Indies. Thereare two sorts, but that in drops is the best. It is DRYING. 113 used to color varnishes, lacquers and stains, andis of no use otherwise to the painter. Dressing.—A term used to express the laying- orleveling- of varnish upon a surface. The varnishis spread over a surface, and the brush is passedover it in various ways to cause it to lie uniform,and this is called Dressing- the varnish. Drying.—A term applied to the solidification ofpaints and

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