Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting A Treatise on the Painting of Carriages, Wagons and Sleighs, Embracing Full and Explicit Directions for Executing All Kinds of Work, Including Painting Factory Work, Lettering, Scrolling, Ornamenting, Varnishing, etc., with Many Tested Recipes and Formulas

At best the carriage painter's existence is somewhat hazardous, his every-day scene of toil being well laden with poisonous fumes and fetid exhalations. In the painting of a hea...

The re-varnishing, re-painting, etc., of vehicles constitutes an important source of revenue for the carriage and wagon painter. Many first-class paint shops connected with high...

Fine and durable carriage and wagon painting cannot be accomplished upon foundations in anywise weak or unstable. The supreme aim of the painter, then, should be to begin at the...

The greens comprise a class of colors many of which are leaders in popularity as panel colors on heavy pleasure vehicles, such as landaus, broughams, rockaways, etc. Nearly all...

The name of a thing should not be accepted for all there is to the thing itself. The carriage painter has very pronounced reasons for bearing this fact in mind when engaged in s...

Of late years the art of sign writing, or, in the speech of the shop, lettering, has come to be so generally regarded as particularly distinct and apart from the other branches...

One well-known varnish maker has said that the marvelous thing about carriage varnish is that it must be one garment suited to all kinds of weather. As a material destined to sh...

While colors, as we know them, differ from each other, they exist, according to the generally accepted theory, as simply different movements of the same element. The immense oce...

Scroll painting is a feature of the trade deserving of more than a passing notice; and while it has been permitted to languish in a state of disuse for a decade or more, as comp...

The peculiar grain showing a condition of the surface which manifests itself after the job is finished arises from certain incompetent practices observed along in the early stag...

The proper color foundation being secured, apply two coats of rubbing varnish, either both clear or one clear and one color-and-varnish, the character of the color foundation de...

light colors are to be used, and stuff coats tabooed, all the open, coarse-grained sweeps of the surface require an application of knifing lead (again refer to Chapter III.) put...

The designing and painting of monograms is an accomplishment which the carriage painter should zealously strive to acquire. Years ago the crest, coat-of-arms, and other elaborat...

The chief and essential purpose of striping is to impart a beautifying effect to the surface upon which it is used. To accomplish this purpose it must be so perfectly and artist...

One conspicuously famous brush maker has declared the art of brush making to be "an art preservative." The carriage and wagon painter is deeply concerned in the achievements of...

It would not be fit nor seemly to lay down any arbitrary rules for the guidance of the painter in the selection or construction of the paint shop. Conditions and circumstances h...

Working Guide for Collecting, Preparing and Preserving all kinds of Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Insects, Etc. The Instruction is intended for Beginners, who have had no Previous L...

Only a prophet of much temerity would attempt to bound the possibilities of business wagon painting. It may be allowable to define it as a limitless art, resourceful, restive, r...

Many Practical Matters and Methods Briefly Stated--Blending of Colors--Spontaneous Combustion--The Best Varnish Room--Remedy for Rusted Carriage Springs--Painting Metallic Surfa...

Cutter and sleigh painting are justly esteemed interesting parts of the art of vehicle painting. Coming at a time when the ordinary activities of vehicle painting are practicall...

contains Full Information and Instructions as to Frescos and Walls and Interior Ornamentation that is to be found elsewhere only in High-priced Volumes. The Technical Knowledge...

Materials Used--Priming--Its Importance--Numerous Formulas for Primers--When to Prime and How--Lead Coats--Their Office and Significance--Rub Lead, with Full Directions for Maki...

Select Them and Keep Them in Order, and How to Use Them; How to Fit up a Shop and to Make the Various Appliances, and how to do All Sorts of Work, from Planing a Board to Buildi...

Articles, tells How to Prepare the Materials, what Tools to Use and How to Use Them. This covers, among other things the Processes of Bleaching, Darkening, Staining, Filling, Gr...

The Passing of the Fine Old Roman Scroll and its Destined Return to Favor--Relief and Flat Scrolls Fully Described--How to Learn the Art of Scrolling--Scrolls in Gold, Aluminum,...

Colors Scientifically Analyzed--Prismatic and Objective Color--The Orders of Objective Colors and their Uses in Vehicle Painting--Harmonizing and Contrasting Colors--Testing Col...

Detailed Instructions for Preparing the Foundation Colors--How to get the Finest Results in Using the Ever-Popular Greens, Blues, and the Varied Colors Belonging to the Red Orde...

Virtues of Varnish--Brief Review of its Mission--Applying Rubbing Varnish--Surfacing It, and the Tools and Appliances Used--Importance of the Water Supply, Washing Up, Etc.--The...

Considered as a Work of Art and as an Advertising Medium--Practical Instructions which Cover the Various Classes of Business Vehicles--The Factory Method Explained--Painting Hea...

Full Description of Manner of Doing the Various Classes of Work--How to Match Colors--To Burn Off Paint--Tables of Materials used in Painting Vehicles--Treatment of Tops and Das...

Wagon Lettering as Distinguished from Sign Writing--Specific Directions for Learning the Art of Wagon Lettering, Including Laying Out, Spacing, Outlining, Balancing, Shading, Pu...

Prepared, Mixed and Applied, and How to Make and Use Varnishes and Dryers. It gives Full and Plain Information about Colors and Tints, also about Graining, Staining on Glass, as...

Locating and Fitting up the Shop--System of Ventilation--Furnishing and Equipping the Varnish Room--The "Set Room," Etc.--With Fourteen Illustrations of Labor-Saving Devices for...

How to Learn the Art--Directions for Making Pencils and Caring for Them--Mixing Striping Colors--Names of Stripes--With Thirty-Six Illustrations, including Pencils, Various Styl...

Owner of a Horse as well as every Horse-Shoer should know. Thirty pages are devoted to the Diseases of and Accidents to the Horses Feet, written by a Practicing Veterinarian of...

Pleasure and may easily be turned to Profit. Complete instruction, covering Syrups and Creams, Pastes and Ices, as well as Candy, that it will serve the needs of Confectioners a...