Graining
Subtitle: ancient and modern
By: by William E. Wall ; preface by J.M. Ratcliffe.
Contributors: State University College at Buffalo. Dept. of Art Conservation.
Publisher: Griffin
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780852643037
Subjects: Graining; Graining -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Simulated wood
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Other titles: Art Conservation Department Library
Description: Explains the art of imitating in paint the graining of different kinds of timber.
Notes: Art Conservation Department Library.

2nd ed. - This ed. originally published: New York : [s.n.], 1924. - Previous ed.: New York : [s.n.], 1905.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Antiquity of graining; title: Imitations; title: Eminent grainers of the last century; title: Ground-colors; title: Graining colors; title: Thinners for oil colors; title: Megilp for oil color; title: Tools; title: Rubbing in oil color; title: Rubbing in water color; title: Combing in oil color; title: Combing in water color; title: Graining crayons; title: Wiping out heart grains in oil color; title: Curly maple; title: Bird's-eye maple; title: Silver maple; title: Whitewood; title: Satinwood; title: White mahogany; title: Ash; title: Hungarian ash; title: Burl ash; title: Quartered oak; title: Wiping out in oil color; title: Graining quartered oak; title: Fourteen ways of imitating quartered oak; title: English oak; title: Pollard oak; title: Root of oak; title: Heart, or sap, oak; title: Wiping out heart grains of oak; title: Chestnut; title: White Oregon cedar; title: Yellow pine; title: Pitch pine, or hard pine; title: Cypress; title: Quartered sycamore; title: Cherry; title: Curly birch; title: Black walnut; title: Crayons for walnut graining; title: Curly walnut; title: French walnut burl; title: Italian walnut; title: Circassian walnut; title: Mahogany; title: Teak; title: Rosewood; title: Overgraining; title: Ceilings; title: Floors; title: Manila paper for covering a poor floor; title: Varnishing a grained floor; title: Patent graining devices; title: Show panels; title: Graining on glass; title: Imitations of carving; title: Imitations of mouldings; title: Causes of cracking in grained work; title: The grainer in fiction; title: Graining a door quartered oak; title: New methods; title: Journeymen; title: Bicycle for city or country work; title: Butternut.