Our homes and their adornments, or, How to build, finish, furnish and adorn a home, containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving, scroll sawing, house painting, window hangings, screens, curtains, window gardening, incidental decorations, decorative-art needle-work, and economic landscape gardening; to which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people (1883)
Varney, Almon C. (Almon Clother), b. 1849 · Detroit, Mich. : J.C. Chilton · leaf 204
softwood, six inches long by two or three broad and one and ahalf thick. Secure it firmly to a bench; then, with the flatchisel, carve the beveled edges and make the miters perfect.Now take the veining tool, No. 3, which cuts a V-shapedgroove, and carve out the design, as given on the next page.… … 5 U Fig. 93- resting upon the work. This steadies the right hand andprevents the tool from slipping forward. Now use thegouge, and carve out the circular depression which may be
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