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Woodworkers in search of imaginative projects accompanied by expert, how-to advice will find them in this authentic guide to Victorian-style wood carving. From tips on getting started to the fine points of creating symmetrical designs, this manual contains timeless information for carvers.
Readers get practical, straightforward tips on necessary tools, selecting appropriate cuts of wood, and tracing and transferring patterns. The book shows how to do scrollwork, carving in relief, and fret cutting, and tells how to perfect your pieces by using sandpaper, oiling, staining, and varnishing. Instructions and 67 designs (with advice on enlarging and reducing patterns) are provided for creating monograms, inscriptions, florals, vines, animal forms, and other ornamentation. Perfect for enhancing letter openers, photo album covers, and scrapbooks, these motifs will also add immediate interest to picture and mirror frames and other domestic accessories.
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- PublisherDover Pubns
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0486445755
- ISBN 13 9780486445755
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages67
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Victorian fret-work and wood carving : patterns and instructions (Dover craft books)
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Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications,, 2005
ISBN 10: 0486445755
ISBN 13: 9780486445755
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Woodworkers in search of imaginative projects accompanied by expert how-to advice will find them in this authentic guide to Victorian-style wood carving. From tips on getting started to the Eine points of creating symmetrical designs, this manual contains timeless information for carvers. Readers get practical, straightforward tips on necessary tools, selecting appropriate cuts of wood, and tracing and transferring patterns.The book shows how to do scrollwork, carving in relief, and fret cutting, and teils how to perfect your pieces by using sandpaper, oiling, staining, and varnishing. lnstructions and 67 designs (with advice on enlarging and reducing patterns) are provided for creating monograms, inscriptions, florals, vines, animal forms, and other ornamentation. Perfect for enhancing letter openers, photo album covers, and scrapbooks, these motifs will also add immediate interest to picture and mirror frames and other domestic accessories. (Deckeltext) Z25937A1 ISBN 0486445755 Gemäß §19 UStG weist dieser Verkäufer keine Mehrwertsteuer aus (Kleinunternehmerstatus)."Universitätsbibliotheken sowie öffentliche kommunale Bibliotheken können auf Rechnung beliefert werden. Ab 01.01.2023 erfolgt wegen der EPR keine Lieferung nach Österreich mehr; ab dem 01.01.2025 auch keine Lieferung nach Dänemark mehr. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 399 kart., 29,8 x 22,2 cm , 67 S., im Fußschnitt mit Stempel. "Mängelexemplar"; guter / sehr guter Zustand. Seller Inventory # 33043
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