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The colouring, bronzing, and patination of metals : a manual for fine metalworkers, sculptors and designers : cast bronze, cast brass, copper and copper-plate, gilding metal, sheet yellow brass, silver and silver-plate / Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe.

The colouring, bronzing, and patination of metals : a manual for fine metalworkers, sculptors and designers : cast bronze, cast brass, copper and copper-plate, gilding metal, sheet yellow brass, silver and silver-plate / Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe.
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ISBN 0500015015
Name Hughes, Richard
Title The colouring, bronzing, and patination of metals : a manual for fine metalworkers, sculptors and designers : cast bronze, cast brass, copper and copper-plate, gilding metal, sheet yellow brass, silver and silver-plate / Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe.
Edition [2nd ed.]
Published London : Thames and Hudson, 1991.
Description 372 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Note Bibliography: p. 361-372.
Summary "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 involved in sculpture, architecture, design and the decorative arts. It brings together hundreds 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. Each of the recipes included has been tested and evaluated by the authors, and the practical procedures involved are clearly explained. In addition, they have devised techniques that considerably broaden the range of surface finishes that can be obtained. The metals covered are bronze and yellow brass in cast form; copper, gilding metal, yellow brass and silver in sheet form; and silver-plate and copper-plate. The book is easy to use; all the recipes are classified according to the colour and surface finish they produce on each metal. Colour illustrations show over 200 examples of finishes as test pieces of metal, or as cast or spun bowls." -book jacket.
Subjects Patina of metals
Bronzing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Bronzing
Art metal-work -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Metals -- Coloring -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Added Names Rowe, Michael
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