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 133
118 ORNAMENTAL WORK IN MOULDINGS. it, winch is generally the torus. The scotia is sometimes called a “ m.outh ” moulding, and often the “ trochilus.” This last word is derived from the Greek troke, a wheel, or from trecho, I run round. The “Cavetto.” The sixth moulding is the “cavetto,” illustrated… … Fig. 9 illustrates the seventh moulding, known as the “cymatium” or cyma recta,— -the term being derived from the Greek Tcumaton, a waJe; yne application of the characteristics of this, with its “ rising and falling swell,” will be obvious on inspection. The cyma recta is so called, as to most the…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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