GRAINING AND MARBLING – Part 2

Graining and Marbling Tools and Brushes-Part 2

Hog Hair Softener

Similar to the badger softener, but containing a pure white bristle, (hog hair) filling.

Size: 75mm and 100mm wide.

Use: As for the badger but not as soft and intended for oil based materials only.

Drag Brush or Brush Grainer

A filling of pure white bristle on one side and coarse nylon on the other, set in separate tufts in a wooden stock.

Size: 100mm wide

Use: To simulate a variety of straight grain patterns by dragging through wet graining colour.

Cutter

Short squirrel hair filling, set in a metal ferrule.

Size: 50mm and 75mm wide

Use: To simulate the fine clean highlights common in feather mahogany and similar decorative woods.

Used: In conjunction with a wet chamois leather to remove water graining colour in the area of the highlights.

Filbert Fitch

Short pure white bristle or synthetic filling, set in a flattened metal ferrule.

Size: A range from small No 0 to large No16.

Use:

1. For simulating heartwood grain patterns of oak pine, and similar woods.

2. Painting marble veins.

Steel Combs

Flexible steel combs with long, parallel, square cut teeth.

Use: 1. To simulate the coarse straight grain patterns of oak, pine, and similar woods. Used covered in lean linen rag, and dragged through wet graining colour. Finer grades used for ‘cross combing’ to break up the coarse straight grain.

2. To produce the decorative texture ‘combing’ by dragging through wet scumble applied to walls and panels.

Simple Graining Terms

In graining, as in any other specialized subject, there are many terms used to describe various sequences or actions. Four of the eight most common terms in Simple Graining are as follows;

Rubbing In

This term applied to the application of the graining colour. The grainer always aims at producing a translucent effect and therefore uses his graining colour sparingly, scrubbing it into the surface rather than applying a full coat.

Dragging

The graining colour is ‘rubbed in’ then a short course brush is dragged through the wet graining colour to simulate a variety of straight grain patterns.

Brush Graining

This refers to the simplest of all graining techniques. The graining colour is ‘rubbed in’, then a short coarse brush is dragged down the length of the grain. This action lifts off colour from some sections giving a grain like effect. These grain lines are then flogged gently from bottom to top holding the flogger at an angle of 80 degrees to break up the grain lines but not to obliterate them.

Flogging

This is the ‘beating’ of the wet graining colour, with a thin, long bristle brush called a flogger to simulate the pores of timber. This is usually done in water colour and then over grained in an oil medium.

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