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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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7 appearance to the grain by short trem-blings of the hand and accidental slippings to rightor left; then go over some parts toward the edgesof panels, stiles and rails with a fine steel comb,and thus put in the finer grain on those parts.Next wipe out the graining color with a view7 toproduce a pretty effect in parts rather than toimitate the natural grain of the wood, putting in
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Fig. 56.—Comb for Dividing Over-grainer. 4 OVER-GRAINING. a curly knot here and there in the panels tog-etherwith an occasional wavy, or zigzag light across thegrain; then put in a few broad lights to imitateheart wood here and there in the rails, and toneoff to the sides. Wipe out only a feAv lights onthe stiles across the grain, and thus leave theappearance of the panels and rails being framedwith a darker and closer grained wood, the lighterand more open grain being- seen on the rails. Inthis style of graining- the imagination of the work-man conceives veining-s and markings, such ascould not possibly be found in a well made oakendoor, some of them, although of an oaken char-acter, taking the form of grotesque letters andwords. The over-graining, too, is frequently puton to produce a pretty effect instead of copyingnature. But the continuation of this article seemssuperfluous when graining can be done quite sat-isfactorily by mechanical means, as rollers, stencilplates, etc. (See

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