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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 139

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5. CHISELLED IRON HINGE. in the cruder work already discussed—of a wood carver, too,as sure of what to do in walnut, and just how to do it, asGrindling Gibbons—for whose looser design, by the way, theartist is less to blame than the times in which he lived. A quality expressive of wood carving is… … 99. CHISELLED IRON TERMINALS. THE TEACHING OF THE TOOL. 103 plainly been scooped away from the surface of the leaves,to give them their delightful variety of surface ; the furrowsof the gouge are left to tell their story. A very different specimen of wood carving, the Germancupboard door (88),…

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