Painting and Decorating - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0853404348 ISBN 13 : 9780853404347

Synopsis

Imagine a world without painters and decorators. Wood, steel and brick would rot, rust and crumble away. Towns would be drab places to live in; homes, shops and factories would be dull and colourless. Painting and decorating is important work. It can also be a very satisfying career for you. Good painters and decorators are highly-skilled men and women. They move around from place to place, working outside and indoors, using hundreds of different materials and many kinds of paint and equipment. Their work ranges from intricate, delicate brushwork to huge spraying jobs; from engraving and gilding to hanging wallpaper. This book explains all you need to know about qualifications and training, and about the excellent chances of promotion and setting up your own firm. With over seventy photo- graphs, it displays most of the various jobs you might do. A painter and decorator's way of life may be just what you are looking for.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The scope of the volume being limited to elementary facts, the underlying chemical and scientific reasons for methods and processes have only been dealt with where they immediately concern the working painter and decorator. Colour and ornament have been lightly touched upon in a practical and popular manner where unavoidably intermixed with the practice of the craft, but the principles laid down are based upon a wide experience. For additional information upon materials, I refer the student to Hurst s Painters Colours, Oils, and Varnishes. Graining, sign writing, marbling, and paperhanging have only been touched upon in so far as principles are con cerned ;the space at disposal preventing a more length treatment. I have felt it necessary to devote more space to such subjects as have hitherto been but superficially handled e.g., plain painting, colour mixing, distempering, and the technique of decorating. I have written as a painter to painters, and if the information is sometimes dogmatic in form, I believe it to be reliable in substance. I shall be at all times pleased to receive additional facts, corrections, or notes for the benefit of future editions. The illustrations, initials, and head and tail pieces are intended, not as ideal designs, but as explanatory of the text and of the application of the principles advocated in the book, for which purpose they have been specially drawn.
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Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0853404348
• ISBN 13: 9780853404347
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible