Table of Contents
List of Plates vi
Foreword to the first edition vii
Preface to the second edition x
Preface to the third edition xi
1 Decorative possibilities of graining and marbling 1
2 The preparation and painting of surfaces 3
3 Graining colours: their use and preparation in various media 7
4 Brushes, tools and appliances 13
5 Combing, brush-graining and flogging 19
6 The graining of ash, Hungarian ash and light oak 26
7 American walnut, teak and medium fumed oak 36
8 Quartered oak - light figure, dark figure and spirit grained 44
9 Limed oak and wearthered oak; decorative treatments 53
10 Pitch pine, pollard oak and root of oak 56
11 Mahogany, feathered mahogany and rosewood 62
12 Maple, satinwood and pine 69
13 Walnut 75
14 Quartering and inlay effects 79
15 Marbling 83
16 White-vein marble, sienna and breche violette 87
17 Black and gold, vert de mer, vert antique and St Anne's 93
18 Rouge Roi, granites, porphyries, Cipollino and fossilstone marbles 98
19 Other broken colour effects and varnishing 103
Glossary of terms 111
Suppliers of specialist tools and materials 115
Index 117
