OR: Trace the pattern onto cardstock, and then glue that to millboard, which is the thick non corrugated cardboard that they make book covers and the backs of sketchbooks etc from or onto masonite. From Wordnik.com. [Hankering for Yarn] Reference
The hollow between the neck and shell is filled with millboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886] Reference
A covered button consists of two discs of metal and one of millboard, thicker or thinner, according to circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886] Reference
The good-natured Düsseldorfian willingly lent brushes and bits of millboard upon which John proceeded to make the most lurid confections. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
Then pieces of millboard or heavy pasteboard are soaked in water and applied while wet in long strips about three inches wide over the wadding, and the whole is covered with bandage. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
When I had succeeded to my satisfaction in making a correct pattern, I laid it on a sheet of thin millboard, traced the outline inside and outside the oval with a pencil, and cut it out. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
We now take a piece of stout millboard (an old ledger book cover will do if large enough), or, if purchased with the frame, ask for a two pound board: this will cost about 4d., and be sufficient for several bags. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
Hence, in viewing large collections of pictures, their colours will be more duly estimated by sometimes walking to the window, or by taking an occasional glance at a millboard, which may be carried in the hand, painted a cool gray. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It is impossible in the space allowed for this paper to enumerate them, but I may add that their ingenious construction, their good wearing qualities, the clever mechanism of the tools by which the various discs of cloth, metal, millboard, etc., are cut out, and the methods of uniting them so as to form a complete button, are marvels of skill and industry. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886] Reference
Asbestos millboard is heat resistant while the others are not. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
A good way to prevent this is to make a millboard or thick brown paper shield with. From Wordnik.com. [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference
Asbestos millboard is different from asbestos cement board or asbestos transite board. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The covering incase of the packet was a kind of stiff cardboard or millboard, within brown paper. From Wordnik.com. [In Luck at Last] Reference
Metal with asbestos backing and asbestos millboard are non-combustible materials used for floor protection. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
These evil results may always be minimized by placing a piece of millboard between the culprit and his victim. From Wordnik.com. [The Enemies of Books] Reference
Protection for the wall can be achieved by spacing either asbestos millboard or 28 gauge steel 1-inch away from the wall. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
If they are not mortared, or have gaps, then metal or asbestos millboard must be installed between them and a wood floor. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The Hellesen dry cell is like the "E.C. C.," but contains a hollow carbon, and is packed with sawdust in a millboard case. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Electricity] Reference
The backing of a flat piece of soft wood with an interleaving of stout paper or, better still, millboard, must not be forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference
If the stove legs are from 6 to 18 inches long, 24 gauge sheet metal laid over a 1 / 4-inch sheet of asbestos millboard is needed. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
The Kimbell bought the painting, "The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Toward the Rialto," an oil on millboard, from the Manhattan dealer Richard L. Feigen. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
In the packet of cards was a solitary one, larger than the rest, an expensive affair on thick, highly glazed millboard, bearing in gothic characters the name. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with the Clubfoot] Reference
Unframed canvases, and unfinished sketches on millboard, were lying about the room in every direction, piled against the wall, heaped on side-tables, and stowed out of the way upon shelves, and everywhere the dust lay thick upon them. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Dunbar A Novel] Reference
A proper guard or padding of millboard, or cork, cut into shape. From Wordnik.com. [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference
A small ring -- like those which umbrellas are fastened with -- and glue the ends on to the millboard, in the centre. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Oil on millboard. From Wordnik.com. [John Anster Fitzgerald - Dreams] Reference
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