Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use (1900)
Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849- · New York, B. Hessling · leaf 417
he Scissors. (Plate 234.) Scissors, intended primarily for use in ladies work, and after-wards applied to a variety of other purposes, are mostly met-with intwo different fundamental forms. The earlier form (French: forces),which held its ground up to the end of the Middle Ages, has aspring hoop… … The Paper-Knife. riate 233.26* 404 The Scissors. — The Hand-Bell. pivot, and terminating at one end in the blades and at the other inhandles with ring-shaped eyelets to receive the fingers (figs. 2, 3,5, 6). The shape is iisually symmetrical. Variations, like fig. 4, arerare. Not infrequently, the…
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