The seven-foot staircase, with treads three feet wide, cost around $ 3, 000, excluding the railing, sanding and lacquering.
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Lacquering the insides of the shells and spraying them with a turpentine / starch solution neutralized the picric acid and prevented it from forming picric salts.
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Artisans Angkor also masters the arts of polychrome and lacquering which have different processes depending on the medium used as a basis ( wood or stone ).
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The background coloring and lacquering is applied first, the most traditional of which is charanda or a dark red, which traditionally uses natural pigments.
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Kang applies traditional lacquering techniques of two thousand-year history in an attempt to feature the delicate and iridescent quality of mother-of-pearl.
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The firm of Dunhill created custom smoking pipes and cigarette holders out of whangee, lacquering the surface of the plant stems and adding a black plastic or Bakelite mouthpiece.
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Gray worked on the chair between 1917 and 1919, lacquering the piece by hand and letting the lacquer set in her humid bathroom before spending days polishing the piece.
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He is not well known, but Barbara Deisroth, Sotheby's Art Deco specialist, said it was Hamanaka who taught lacquering technique to Eileen Gray and Jean Dunand.
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Having lost his father in early youth, Frank was apprenticed to his godfather Neubert, who carried on at Nuremberg the business of lacquering and decorating wooden boxes and caskets.
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Traditionally, the work involved lacquering the wood of the " Wrightia tinctoria " tree, colloquially called " Aale mara " ( ivory-wood ).