Plain Talk With Practical Painters: William Johnson, Manufacturer of White Lead, Zinc and Colors (Classic Reprint)

The knowledge whereby he claimsto speak csv-cathedra is the result of actual experimental and comparative tests of all the various materials and substances employed in the art of House P; ing, extending through a series of years-begun in 1#and continued up tothe present writing. I Â Every practical painter will appreciate at a glance the truth of the following remarks as to the properties which a pigment must possess to render it, under all circumstances, a desirable paint. It is not of the slightest consequence by what name it may be designated, or what chemists and professors may say of its component and constituent parts, or its property of resisting the action of certain gases, or its wonderful and never-before-heard-of â? chemical at finities.â. All such talk is mere bosh, and is altogether impertinent to the question. 0A good paint must possess-F irst :T he property of opacity; that is, it must cover well.
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