File:Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen (1910) (14782515302).jpg

Identifier: fairchildsrapidl00hack (find matches)
Title: Fairchild's rapid letterer and show-card maker, commercial alphabet construction with brush or pen
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Hackes, Sidney, (from old catalog) comp
Subjects: Lettering Advertising cards. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Chicago, Fairchild company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
thout a border, and this would increase itsattractiveness. Rope Edging. ORDINARY manila rope, with a bow tied in one or morecorners and the end unraveled and combed out, makes afine decoration tor window cards. It is applied by runninga narrow, thick, flowing line of glue at the center of theedge where you want to fasten the rope, allowing the glueto become sticky by exposure and pressing it down slightlyas you go along. If you wish no bow at the corners, youcan nicely form a little loop at each corner, or, if you desireit plain, you must miter it like a piece of wood, firsttying up the end where you intend to cut, spreading glueall over it, allowing it to dry, and then cutting diagonallywith your mat-knife. This method is rather troublesome,so most professionals place a round weight in the corner,gluing on the rope with curved corners. Others pierce twolarge holes through the mat, both in the centers and diag-onally at the ends,. passing the rope through. FAIECHILDS RAPID LETTERER 83
Text Appearing After Image:
'

Note About Images