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, Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas), 1836-1919 · Chicago, F.J. Drake & co · leaf 131
e we know of the Egyptians the morewe are led to believe that long before Greece or Romewere known they enjoyed a remarkably high state ofcivilization and learning, with all their accompanyingadvantages. A figure given (in group) exhibit two very oldchairs and a couple of Egyptian chairmakers at… … Empire.Plate V THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER 135 ing a hole in the chair by using a bow to turn the drill.These tools are very much like the tools in use today.Several finished chair legs are seen on the wall. Thiscarving on the walls of a tomb, was executed betweentwo and three thousand years ago.…
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