The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book : in four parts (1802)
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806 · London : Printed by T. Bensley ... for W. Baynes · leaf 606
four feet two. Of the Horfe Drejfing Glqfes. Plate XVII. The dreflTmg-glafs on the left rifes to any height, by leaden-weights inclofed in the ftandards. The weights are fufpendedfometimes to tambour glued on to webbing, which pafles overa brafs roller at the top, and fixes to a piece of thin wood,… … ( 2.5 ) fo that when the glafs is raifed, it may be turned to any directtion. But fome ufe a kind of coloured llrong webbing, withoutthe tambour, which makes it lefs troublefome, and lefs Hablcto injury, though it does not look fo neat. Thofe unacquaintedwith the manner of gluing up the ftandards,…
