A complete guide to ornamental leather work (1854)
Boston : James Munroe and Company · leaf 35
29 TO ORNAMENTAL LEATHER WORK. BRACKETS. The beauty of a bracket depends entirely upon the artistic skill displayed in ornamenting it. The engraving here given is to illustrate the form … No. 6. of bracket best suited to give it strength and so- lidity, and to aid the artist in bringing the work well out, the strips of wood on each side of the piece in the centre will be found exceedingly use- ful to nail and glue the work upon ; they must be entirely covered with the foliage ; the…
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