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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 244

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it is ALLIED PROCESSES. 207 the designers business to anticipate. The fret-saw is a con-venience only so long as we do not allow it to affect design in-juriously. Working as the mediaeval smith did with the chisel(203), he arrived as naturally at well-knit pattern as we withthe fret-saw wander away… … 205. FRETTED BOXWOOD. Some interesting variations upon ordinary fretwork de-serve to be mentioned. The acme of simplicity in fret-sawing is where planks are merely sawn at the edges so aswhen placed side by side to show pierced pattern-work. Thisdevice does away with all necessity for any…

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