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japanning
japanning, vbl. n. (dʒəˈpænɪŋ) [f. japan v. + -ing1.] The action of japanning or varnishing with japan; the material used in japanning, japan. Also attrib.1688 [see japan v. 1]. 1714 Gay Trivia ii. 166 And aids with soot the new japanning art. 1745 Eliza Heywood Fem. Spectator (1748) IV. 47 We have ...
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Japanning
Black is common and japanning is often assumed to be synonymous with black japanning. ... with Plain and Easy Rules for the Ladies Japanning (1751), The Ladies Amusement or, Whole Art of Japanning Made Easy (1758, 1762 & 1771), & The Young
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1707 in Wales
Salusbury, explorer and diarist (died 1762)
30 September - Richard Trevor, Bishop of St David's (died 1771)
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Thomas Allgood II, heir to the Pontypool japanning
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japan
japan, v. (dʒəˈpæn) Also 8 japon. [f. prec., sense 2.] 1. trans. To lacquer with japan; to varnish with any material that gives a hard black gloss.1688 Parker & Stalker (title) A Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing. Ibid. xi. 35 They may be Japanned, and look well. 1697 W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 40...
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1716 in Wales
8 May - Thomas Allgood I, originator of the japanning industry at Pontypool and Usk
29 June - Richard Lucas, clergyman and writer, 65
29 September - David
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1717 in Wales
Britain, Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, gives a sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ", beginning the Bangorian Controversy.
19 September - Japanning
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Pontypool japan
If the japanning is intact, a magnet can be used to identify iron. It appears that the secret recipe for Pontypool japan had been in existence for some time before its use for japanning metal.
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Japanning; the Lustre of Shanghaied and/or Press Ganged
Shanghai, of course, is a verb. It's a bit like "press-ganged". If you've forgotten the meaning, go and check out the Charlie Chaplin film 'Shanghaied'. Japan is an English verb as well. If an object is japanned, it has been finished with a thick shiny lacquer; often, not always, black. You may have guessed already that anything ...
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Lacquer
Japanning
Just as china is a common name for porcelain, japanning is an old name to describe the European technique to imitate Asian lacquerware. In the 18th century, japanning gained a large popular following.
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William Highfield Jones
Jones' father was a foreman at the Old Hall japanning works, where three of his sons became apprenticed. In due course Jones was joined by his two brothers, Harry and Benjamin, and they bought an empty japanning works and set up the company of Jones Bros.
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Martin Pierce
The technique he uses is one that combines aspects of japanning with gilding. Martin likes the raised textural nature of japanning, but he substitutes casein, which is a white paste made from milk by-products for its 17th-century
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Molly Verney
Women in Japanning
Japanning first began in Europe in 1610 in the Netherlands, and due to England's close trade relations would likely have traded objects OR, A Companion for the Ingenious of either Sex, 1697, London
The Art of Japanning: Varnishing, Pollishing, and Gilding.
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William and Mary style
Japanning, a technique of varnishing which was very popular at the time, was also used on this furniture design. Walnut and, to a lesser extent, maple were the preferred woods, with walnut burl veneers and "ebonization" (black japanning) common.
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Hannah Robertson (autobiographer)
In these various locations it seems that she taught filigree, japanning, and other fashionable accomplishments for young ladies. Containing a great variety of practical receipts, in gum-flowers, filligree, japanning, Shell-Work, Gilding, Painting, Cosmetics, Jellies, Preserves, Cakes
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Toleware
The term tôle, derived from the French tôle peinte, "painted sheet metal", is synonymous in English usage with japanning on tin, such as the tôle shades
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