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Hobbies Weekly No. 13

Hobbies Ltd. · 1896 · 20 pictures

Issue 13 of a weekly craft magazine published by Hobbies Ltd in 1896 for British amateur woodworkers, fretsawyers and hobbyists, covering wood carving, bent ironwork, stamps, photography, pigeon keeping and prize competitions. The engravings mix fretwork patterns for mirror frames and hanging wall clocks with ornamental column and scroll borders and drawn display lettering, giving designers cut-out silhouette ornament, rule-and-wave dividers and period headline alphabets.

Wood carving for amateurs · Stamps week by week · Fretwork silhouettes · Photographic notes and hints · Bent iron work · Pigeons for pleasure and profit · Cycling and athletics · An electric button hole · How to make magic lantern slides · Prize competitions · Weekly presentation design · Correspondence

Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931)