This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...gone over firmly with a pencil, and, on removing the papers, the words will be found transferred to the tablet. Water-colour will be found about as good as anything for filling in the letters (Fig. 120), as in case of a mistake it is so easily removed without disturbing the gold; if any colour other than black be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...gone over firmly with a pencil, and, on removing the papers, the words will be found transferred to the tablet. Water-colour will be found about as good as anything for filling in the letters (Fig. 120), as in case of a mistake it is so easily removed without disturbing the gold; if any colour other than black be employed, it is well to add a small quantity of permanent white to make a body. When dry, the whole is quickly coated with white hard varnish, applied with a large camel-hair brush. A very pretty style of tablet for a gold frame is made by preparing the ground with whiting, as in Fig. 120.--Name Tablet for Fig. 121.--Orna Frarae. mental Nail-heads. the earlier stages of gilding, and mounting the name with letters cut from a thin strip of composition. The ground may be left smooth or " sanded "; in either case it is gilt in oil, the surface of lettering being wiped off, coated with burnish gold size, and burnished with an agate. A foreign washable gilt tablet can be made by cutting away the rebate of gilt flat mouldings, cutting the ends to any design, and writing and varnishing as before, the ends and edges being whitened and gilt, or covered with good gold paint. It is usual to fix the tablet with two small pieces of soft composition, and, for the sake of effect, an ornamental brass nail--such as one of those shown in Fig. 121--may be placed at the ends. CHAPTER VI. METHODS OF MOUNTING PICTURES. Mounting-boards are sold in sizes to suit various pictures; those called Royal, measuring 24 in. by 19 in., and Imperial, which measure 30 in. by 21 or 22 in., are the sizes likely to be the most useful. Pictures that require mounting must be carefully treated, or else they may be ruined. Almanacks and presentation plates are often very much impr...
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