Hobbies Weekly No. 6

Hobbies Ltd. · 1895 · 20 pictures

Issue 6 of Hobbies Weekly, a craft and pastimes magazine issued by Hobbies Ltd in Britain in 1895 for amateur fretworkers, metalbenders, photographers and cyclists. Its pages mix working diagrams of Venetian bent-iron scrollwork — wall hooks, shelf brackets, a gasalier of sixteen curves — with blackletter headings trailing penwork flourishes, giving designers scroll templates, thin-line construction drawings and ornamental type set into narrow letterpress columns.

Stamps week by week · Fretworking and inlaying in wood · Photography for amateurs · Bazaars and how to make them successful · Playgrounds of electrical science · Cycling and athletics · Weekly presentation design - carving pattern for adams frame · Venetian bent iron work · Magic lanterns and how to use limelight · Some paying hobbies · Prize competitions · Correspondence

Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931)