The Art of Graining: How Acquired And How Produced
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Of course the egg-shell gloss must be attained after the third ground-work is laid on, in order to receive the whipping-coat properly. Pores in rosewood being very fine, the whipping should be as fine as possible. The distemper color is made from burnt umber, a very little Vandyke brown, and a small quantity of rose-pink, ground in ale, or vinegar and water, etc., as before mentioned, and applied very thin. The first coat of graining is mixed from Vandyke brown, burnt umber, and ivory-black (th...ough mainly from the former), ground very fine in oil, tur- pentine, wax, etc., and must stand after being mixed for some six hours before applying. In some cases, where a reddish cast is desired, it will be well to use a trifle more of the rose-pink. As the grains in rosewood run very irregularly (see illustration), great care must be maintained in combing, it being necessary in most cases to employ extremely coarse and fine combs ; and at times it may be absolutely necessary to use a pencil, in bringing up this imitation to per- fection, and all of the combing and pencilling must be blended down very 14 THE ART OF GRAINING.
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