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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 140

An illustration from 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, leaf 140 — nly 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), points to the time when another instru-ment, the drill, came into… … 100. CHISELLED IRON LOCK. PLATES. mechanical piece of work, though the family likeness be-tween the two doors is striking. We find the influence ofthe drill again in the Byzantine rendering of acanthus foliageborrowed from the Greeks. In stone the carver (see the spandril from Wells Cathedral,page…

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