The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. (1910)
Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836-1919 · Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co · leaf 128
do not sit have two attitudes for resting;women use one of their own. Squatting on the heel isfavored in India and China. In this position the weightof the body falls upon the toes, and to keep the balancecomfortably the arms must hang over the knees, thehands dangling. The cross-legged attitude is… … Figure 62 of that region rest upon the floor sideways, thus throw-ing the weight on the outer part of one thigh, not avery comfortable posture to a civilized Caucasian., 128 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER As civilization advanced in Egypt the use of furni-ture became more and more necessary. First the…
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