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The Industrial and Artistic Technology of Paint and Varnish

The Industrial and Artistic Technology of Paint and Varnish

Sabin, Alvah Horton

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General Military History

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ISBN10: 1150496851
ISBN13: 9781150496851
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. CHINESE AND JAPANESE LACQUERS. The Jesuit missionary Father D'Incarville, who was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences, wrote from China a memoir on Chinese varnish; this was, as stated in the text, a few years after the death of the Emperor Yungching or Yong-toking, and in the beginning of the reign of Keenlung; that is, a few years after 1735. This memoir was said by Watin to be practically inaccessible in 1772; inaccurate statements said to be based on it appear in various encyclopaedias; and as the writer has been so fortunate as to have secured a copy, the following translation, which is complete with the exception of a few irrelevant sentences, is now presented, as an important addition to our knowledge of the subject. The author claimed no knowledge of varnish in general, but simply wrote out his own observations. The mention of tung-oil is the earliest which has come to the notice of the translator. D'incarvtlle's Memo1r. It is commonly known in Europe that Chinese varnish is not a composition, but a gum or resin which runs from a tree which the Chinese call Tsichou, or varnish-tree. This tree grows in most of the southern provinces of China; it grows wild in the mountains; the trunk of the tree is sometimes a foot or more in diameter. Those which are cultivated on the plains, or on certain mountains, the Chinese tap for their juice when they are as large as one's leg; these cultivated trees do not live more than about ten years. Varnish-trees.--The varnish-tree is easily propagated from slips; in the autumn they select such branches as they wish to use for this purpose; they pack the twig not too firmly with earth, a few inches beyond the place where it is to be cut off, and this earth is formed into a ball about ...

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