In japanning metals, all good work of which should be stoved, they have to be first thoroughly cleaned, and then the japan ground applied with a badger or camel-hair brush or other means, very carefully and evenly.
Japanning and Enamelling Oven For Bedstead, Ironmongery, Cash-box, and Lamp Factories.
In japanning it is best to have the oven at rather a lower temperature, increasing the heat after the work has been placed in the oven.
Japanning is done in clear transparent varnishes, in black and in body colours; but black japan is the most characteristic and common style of work.
Japanning produces a brilliant polished surface which is much more durable and less easily affected by heat, moisture or other influences than any ordinary painted and varnished work.
The art of japanning was revived in England late in the eighteenth century, and some remarkable pieces appear to have been the work of amateurs who painted and gilded so-called lacquer work, tea caddies, and jewelled caskets.
It must be remembered that the art of japanning was looked upon at one time as an accomplishment, for about the year 1700 many gentlewomen were taught the art.
He goes on to say: "Well then as painting has made an honourable provision for our bodies so Japanning has taught us a method, no way inferior to it, for the splendour and preservation of our Furniture and Houses.
The title-page reads: "A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, Being a compleat discovery of those Arts.
The secret of successful japanning lies in the age of the oil used; the older the linseed oil is, the better the result.
Japanning is usually done on flesh splits, whereas enamelling is done on the grain, and if splits are used they are printed and boarded.
Most of the men that have been employed in ornamental japanning have gone to painting clocks, which pays better.
The spirits of tar used in japanning renders it healthy, and consumptives go frequently intojapanning furnaces, feeling that they are benefited by it.
Japanning of the heavy kind could not be done by women.
Japanning is one of the few arts that had its origin in a heathen country.
Gold scrap of the japanning department is sent to the gold refiners, and the leaf metal scrap to the bronze powder manufacturers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "japanning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
