Practical Graining, with Description of Colors Employed and Tools Used - William E. Wall

[CONTENTS.]

Chapter I.
Page
Groundworks for graining; graining compared with plain paintedwork; removing old paint; mixing ground colors	[5]
Chapter II.
The graining color; imitating simple woods; graining color forlight oak; mixing graining color; applying the color; representing champs or lightsof oak	[9]
Chapter III.
Quartered oak; overgraining; heart of oak; use of the check roller	[13]
Chapter IV.
Graining oak in distemper; the light veins in oak; graining ash;putting in heart work; over-graining ash; ash in distemper; matching white ash	[16]
Chapter V.
Hungarian ash; burl ash in water color and in oil	[19]
Chapter VI.
Chestnut; colors for graining chestnut; wiping the hearts andblending; chestnut in water color; bird's-eye maple; putting in lights and shades;putting in the curly or rock maple; silver maple	[21]
Chapter VII.
Satinwood; groundwork for satinwood; putting in the mottling	[26]
Chapter VIII.
Pollard oak; cherry; cherry in distemper; glue size for distemper binder	[27]
Chapter IX.
Black walnut in oil; black walnut in distemper	[31]
Chapter X.
French walnut burl in distemper	[32]
Chapter XI.
Mahogany; Honduras feathered mahogany; stippling in mahogany;feathered mahogany	[35]
Chapter XII.
Rosewood; the use of the bamboo brush; imitating rosewood inwater color; cypress wood	[37]
Chapter XIII.
Hard pine; white wood	[40]
Chapter XIV.
Varnishing over grained work; cracking of varnish on inside work	[42]
Chapter XV.
Graining considered as a fine art; graining sometimes condemned;the artistic merit of graining	[46]
Chapter XVI.
The tools used by grainers; combs; overgrainers; badger blenders;castellated overgrainers; mottlers; cutters; stipplers; check roller; fresco bristle liners	[48]
Chapter XVII.
Patent graining machines; patent roller process; the Mason pad;objections to machine graining; stencil plates; gransorbian transfer process; transfer paper	[54]
Chapter XVIII.
The imitation of carved work, mouldings, etc.	[59]
Index	[i]
Index to Colored Plates	[ix]

[LIST OF COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS.]

[1.] Grounds for Graining Hungarian Ash, Maple, Light Ash and Light Oak.
[2.] Grounds for Graining Chestnut, Dark or Pollard Oak, Black or French Walnut, Stained Cherry, Mahogany and Rosewood.
[3.] Plain or Wainscot Oak, Light.
[4.] Flaked Oak, Light.
[5.] Flaked Oak, Light.
[6.] Heart Growth Oak, Light.
[7.] Heart Growth Oak, Pencilled.
[8.] Flaked Oak, Light, Shaded.
[9.] Heart of Oak, Checked and Shaded.
[10.] Flaked Oak, Light Shaded.
[11.] Flaked or Quartered Dark Oak, Shaded.
[12.] Heart of Light Ash, Wiped Out.
[13.] Heart of Light Ash Wiped Out and Shaded.
[14.] Heart of Ash, Dark, Pencilled.
[15.] Hungarian Ash, Wiped Out and Pencilled.
[16.] Burl Ash in Water Colors.
[17.] Dark Ash, Pencilled and Combed.
[18.] Hungarian Ash, Wiped Out.
[19.] Bird's-Eye Maple, Overgrained.
[20.] Chestnut.
[21.] Bird's-Eye Maple, Mottled Ready for the Eyes.
[22.] Bird's-Eye Maple with the Eyes.
[23.] Chestnut.
[24.] Satinwood Mottled.
[25.] Satinwood Mottled and Overgrained.
[26.] Curly Maple Mottled to Overgrain.
[27.] Curly Maple Overgrained.
[28.] Pollard Oak.
[29.] Pollard Oak.
[30.] Cherry Mottled in Oil before being Overgrained.
[31.] Cherry Mottled and Pencilled in Oil.
[32.] Cherry Mottled and Pencilled in Oil.
[33.] Cherry Mottled and Pencilled in Oil as Finished.
[34.] Cherry Wiped Out and Pencilled in Oil.
[35.] Walnut Stipple.
[36.] Black Walnut Pencilled.
[37.] Walnut Wiped Out and Pencilled.
[38.] Curly Walnut.
[39.] French Walnut Burl.
[40.] Mahogany Straight
[41.] Mahogany Mottled.
[42.] Mahogany Feathered.
[43.] Rosewood as Outlined to Overgrain.
[44.] Rosewood as Finished.
[45.] Cypress in Oil.
[46.] Hard Pine.
[47.] Whitewood in Oil.

MAPLE OR SATIN WOOD. LIGHT ASH.
LIGHT OAK. HUNGARIAN ASH.
GROUNDS FOR GRAINING.—IN ILLUSTRATION OF ARTICLE BY WM. E. WALL