Hobbies Weekly No. 8

Hobbies Ltd. · 1895 · 20 pictures

Issue 8 of Hobbies Weekly, a British craft magazine published by Hobbies Ltd. in 1895 for amateur fretworkers, wood carvers, stamp collectors and home experimenters. The plates give woodcut arabesque panels, symmetrical bent-iron and fretwork patterns printed as working templates, and ornamented article headings lettered in Victorian display type — usable as repeat ornament, frames, or ready-made title blocks.

Wood carving for amateurs · Stamps week by week · Electricity - the induction coil - how to make and use it · Fretworking - inlaying and overlaying · Photographic notes and hints · Bazaars and how to make them successful · Venetian bent iron work · The magic lantern · Cycling football and athletic notes · Weekly presentation design · Prize competitions · Correspondence

Internet Archive · Public domain (published before 1931)