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 145
the terminating points of the moulding. Join these points by the diagonal line as shown, and bisect it in the point c. Through c draw a vertical line, e c, of indefinite length. With any radius greater than half the distance a c or be, describe arcs of circles as shown. Through the points of… … Fig. 18. in the point c, which will complete the curve, giving outline or profile of moulding. In fig. 2, Plate III., we show how the Greek cyma reversa or inverted cymatium can be drawn by means of intersecting lines. In fig. 1, Plate IV., we give another method of finding the curve of the cyma…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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