The techniques of metal colouring, bronzing and patination are assuming a new importance in contemporary fine metalwork and design.Richard Hughes and Michael Rowe have assembled and tested the recipes included in this book, which is the most comprehensive work on the subject currently available, an essential reference and sourc for practitioners and all those involvoved in sculpture, architecture, designs and the decorative arts.It brings together hundreds of recipes and treatments previously scattered in a variety of old books and technical papers, and provides the artist-craftsman with a very wide range of coloured finishes.