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About antique
pulls
If your taste in kitchen design has a classical touch, antique brass
cabinet pulls might be what you're looking for.
Antique brass
accessories are not the shiny gold colored material that most of us
think of when we hear the word brass. Antique brass is more muted in
tone, with typically at matte finish. The designs for this type of
hardware material are usually highlighted with "tarnish” in the crevices
of the decorative features for an aged look.
In cabinet and accessory hardware, there is a wider variety of brass
designs than wrought iron styles. Brass is an alloy, a combination of
copper and zinc. There's some variation in the color of brass, the
result of different proportions of zinc and copper in the material.
Brass is a relatively soft metal. Designs are created by pouring molten
brass into molds. Stamping the design into a strip of brass forms other
styles. Therefore, the variety of antique brass cabinet pulls on the
market is substantial.
Design motifs tend to fall in broad categories. Among these styles are
renaissance, colonial, stone shapes, timber elements, floral, animal and
modern. Most antique brass cabinet pulls follow a colonial, floral or
renaissance theme.
There are different finishes for brass. A satin finish is matte and
stands up to a lot of usage. A hand-rubbed mirror finish as the name
implies, reflects other elements in the room like a mirror. Brass can be
finished to look like more expensive bronze. Verdigris is a green toned
finish giving the look of aged copper or bronze. If brass is lacquered,
it does not need polishing.
Attempting to polish lacquered brass with a
polishing compound designed for brass will damage the lacquer, making
the finish cloudy and the brass dull.
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