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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 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.

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The Colouring Bronzing and Patination of Metals A

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      Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Published 4 February 1991
      ISBN-13 9780500015018
      978-0500015018
      ISBN-10 0500015015
      Also in:
      Art & Photography Decorative arts

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 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.

      Trade Review
      'A meticulous piece of research, immaculately presented' - Design
      'I am so impressed by this book it's hard to know where to start' - Metalsmith

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