The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction (1847)
Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889 · New York : J.S. Redfield · leaf 34
and placing the left thumb … on the spot where you desire the split to stop, which its pressure will effect, start the split slightly withyour knife, and run it up the quill by a touch with the thumb-nail of your right hand, or theuncut end of another quill. The general rule is, to cut the shoulders the length of the split,and…
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