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The colouring, bronzing, and patination of metals : a manual for the fine metalworker and sculptor : cast bronze, cast brass, copper and copper-plate, gilding metal, sheet yellow brass, silver and silver-plate

By Richard Hughes , Michael Rowe

Book information

Publisher
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Year
1983
ISBN
0442231709
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
283 MB (296240781 bytes)
Edition
FIRST EDITION
Pages
372\378
Time added
2024-12-27 03:51:05

Description

The techniques of metal colouring, bronzing and patination are assuming a new importance in contemporary fine metalwork and design. Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe have assembled and tested the recipes included in this book, which is the most comprehensive work on the subject currently available, an essential reference and sourcebook for practitioners and all those involvoved in sculpture, architecture, designs and the decorative arts. It brings together hundred of recipes and treatments previously scattered in a variety of old books and technical papers, and provides the artist-craftsman with a very wide range of coloured finishes

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