For inexhaustible resource in tinting, polishing, and decorating wood surfaces, we shall have to learn from the Japanese, from whom probably the famous Vernis Martin was first borrowed in the last century.
The varnish they made, called "vernis Martin," gave its name to the furniture decorated by them, which was well suited to the dainty boudoirs of the day.
Le Sieur Dagly was supposed to have imported the secret and was established at the Gobelins works where he made what was called "vernis de Gobelins.
Some of the most beautiful are made of French lacquer and ornamented in the Vernis Martin style.
French artists took up the Oriental style, and produced some very successful lacquer work, striking out in an entirely distinct style, which, as Vernis Martin decoration, became famous.
It is finely painted with medallions on Vernis Martin.
A French dulcimer of carved wood, ornamented with slips of engraved Venetian glass, with turquoises, and with paintings on Vernis Martin.
Nearly three thousand plates he etched, lithographed, or engraved, not including his paintings or his experiments in various mediums, such as vernis mou and wood-engraving.
He worked in aquatint and successfully revived the old process, vernis mou.
There's a purrfect freshness and novelty about Vernis that's amusing to a stranger like myself.
I was quite young, and had just left college, when accident threw into my hands the Traite des manieres de graver en taille douce sur l'airain par le moyen des eaux fortes et des vernis durs et mols.
Lalanne to find out the ingredients of the petit vernis liquide and vernisau pinceau, but he says that he does not know, and that the recipes are a secret of the maker of these varnishes.
To meet all possible emergencies, lamp-black may be mixed with the liquid stopping-out varnish (petit vernis liquide).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vernis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
