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House decorating and painting (1900)

Brown, William Norman · London, Scott, Greenwood & Son; New York, D. Van Nostrand Co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 102

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is the sable tube grainer shown at Fig. 54, which leaves a series of faint parallel lines. The lines forming the heart of the wood require to be put in with a single sable or camel-hair pencil. Ash. — This is an extremely useful tree, but the grain of the English ash is not distinctive enough to… … Fig. 52. — Wavy Hog-hair Mottler. of maple, which is difficult of imitation. The ground colour for ash should be white, with just a suspicion of chrome yellow. The graining colour should be of a light yellowish buff, lighter than the ground of maple. In applying this it should be laid on with a…

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