Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting by M. C. Hillick

Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting by M. C. Hillick, Merri Ferrell (Introduction)

Todays collectors who seek instruction on painting and decorating their horse-drawn vehicles can do no better than this reprint of a book originally published in 1898. The author was one of the best-known carriage painters in the country and was described in the Preface as having "the happy faculty of being able to impart his knowledge to others in such a plain, practical way that they cannot fail to understand him."

You will find here information on the buying, care, and used of brushes; colors; varnishing; striping; scroll painting; lettering; monograms; repainting and revarnishing; painting cutter s and sleighs...and much more.