Smith, G. (18th century)

The Art of Blowing Glass in Miniature. Print from G. Smith's  'The Laboratory or School  of Arts', published in 1756. The Art of Blowing Glass in Miniature. Print from G. Smith's 'The Laboratory or School of Arts', published in 1756.

G. Smith was the author of The Laboratory or School of Arts (1756), which includes references to the dyeing of fibres used, amongst others, for embroidery. G. Smith is sometimes referred to as Godfrey Smith, Geoffrey Smith or George Smith.

G. Smith's book was fully called: The Laboratory or School of Arts, containing a large collection of valuable secrets, experiments, and manual operations in arts and manufactures, highly useful to gilders, jewellers, enamellers, goldsmiths, dyers, cutlers, pewterers, joiners, japanners, book-binders, plasterers, artists, and to the workers in metals in general, and in plaster of paris, wood, ivory, bone, horn, and other materials.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 27th June 2016).

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