The cabinet maker : a practical guide to the principles of design, and the economical and sound construction of household furniture, furnishings, and fittings : together with treatises on the designing and setting out of mouldings, and of ornamental or cut-wood work (1892)
London : Ward, Lock, Bowden · leaf 131
116 ORNAMENTAL WORK IN MOULDINGS. The “ Torus ” Moulding. The moulding third in order to be named is illustrated in fig. 5, and is called the “ torus,” and is in fact but a bead of larger size than the “bead” used as such. There is also this distinction between … Fig. 4. the torus and the bead. The bead is always circular in section, as in fig. 4, or at a in fig. 5 ; whereas the torus is in the Grecian form of the moulding frequently elliptical in section, as at b and c. There are still two other distinctions between the torus and the bead : the torus,…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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