Hints for painters, decorators, and paper-hangers. Being a selection of useful rules, data, memoranda, methods, and suggestions for house, ship and furniture painting, paper-hanging, gilding, color mixing, and other matters useful and instructive to painters and decorators. Prepared with special reference to the wants of amateurs

This is the only work on THE STEEL SQUARE AND ITS USES ever published. It is Thorough, Exhaustive, Clear, and Easily Understood. Confounding terms and scientific phrases have be...

Ultramarine was originally made by grinding the valuable mineral _Lapis lazuli_. Genuine ultramarine so made is very expensive, but artificial French and German ultramarines are...

The preparation of ceilings for whitewashing (or kalsomining as this operation is sometimes pretentiously called) is an operation requiring some skill and knowledge of “how to d...

_Walnut._--Tree color; two-thirds white lead and one-third red ochre, yellow ochre and umber, mixed according to the shade sought. If veining is required, use different shades o...

=Operations.=--To prepare the walls, make a size of glue and water, then give the walls a coat of a very weak solution of the same. To make a paste, take two pounds of fine flou...