Parry's Graining & Marbling

by Rhodes, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780632034161
• ISBN10: 0632034165
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The third edition of this classic text, first published in 1949, contains additional colour plates and text describing popular decorative paint finishes such as lapis lazuli, tortoiseshell, malachite, patinated gold and fossilstone marble. A chapter on broken colour effects--including ragging, dragging, stippling, sponging and shading--is also provided. The extensive text on graining has been enhanced by replacing the descriptive-only ground colours with two full-colour plates of suggested colours (aligned with the British Standard), thereby enabling access to paints from local suppliers or helping the decorative painter make and mix his/her own colours.

Author Biography

The late John P. Parry was an instructor at the Brixton School of Building.

Table of Contents

Decorative possibilities of graining and marbling

The preparation and painting of surfaces

Graining colours: their use and preparation in various media

Brushes, tools and appliances

Combing, brush-graining and flogging

The graining of ash, Hungarian ash and light oak

American walnut, teak and medium fumed oak

Quartered oak - light figure, dark figure and spirit grained

Limed oak and wearthered oak; decorative treatments

Pitch pine, pollard oak and root of oak

Mahogany, feathered mahogany and rosewood

Maple, satinwood and pine

Walnut

Quartering and inlay effects

Marbling

White-vein marble, sienna and breche violette

Black and gold, vert de mer, vert antique and St Anne's

Rouge Roi, granites, porphyries and Cipollino

Other broken colour effects and varnishing

Glossary of terms

List of suppliers of specialist tools and materials

Index

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