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 149
134 ORNAMENTAL WORK IN MOULDINGS. Another method of reducing or enlarging a moulding is shown in fig. 1, Plate III., by drawing lightly on the drawing to be copie 1, as diagram A, lines horizontal and vertical, as shown from the ter¬ minating points of the moulding. Lines similar in number and… … in A. But it is obvious that, if it oe desired to reduce or enlarge A in a given proportion, by making the distance between the lines in B as much less or as much greater than the distances in a, the corre¬ sponding points in a will be found in B, but in the desired proportion as regards distance.…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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