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 98
of it, for that is not easily calculated, but of the fact which many overlook, or, if taking note of, treat lightly as a matter of no moment — that a heavy loss is sustained by the masters. And although this point is strangely neglected, it is strictly true that all waste is a loss to all, and… … Fig. 7. at once of the moral character and the technical skill or ability of the man. All material is valuable in the sense that nothing should be lost through wasteful carelessness, which is the worst of all losses that the individual and the community suffer. In some trades the materials used in…
Cabinetwork · Furniture making · Woodwork · Moldings
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