A manual on furniture design. A book that will stimulate and
encourage designing and initiation on the part of the student.
It contains a collection of plates showing perspective
drawings of typical designs, representing particular types of
furniture. Each perspective is accompanied by suggestions for
rearrangement and the modeling of parts. The text discusses
and illustrates principles of design as applied to furniture.
A practical and helpful book that should be in the hands of
every teacher of cabinet making and designing.
PROBLEMS IN WOODWORKING. By M. W. Murray.
A convenient collection of good problems consisting of forty
plates of working drawings, of problems in benchwork that have
been successfully worked out by boys in grades seven to nine
inclusive.
SHOP PROBLEMS. (On Tracing Paper). By Albert F. Siepert.
A collection of working drawings of a large variety of
projects printed on tracing paper and ready for blue printing.
The projects have all been worked out in manual arts classes
and have proved their value from the standpoint of design,
construction, use, human interest, etc. They are of convenient
size, 6x9-inch, and are enclosed in a portfolio. To the
teacher, in search of additional projects to supplement and
enrich his course these tracings are worth far more than the
price asked. Published in series. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and
7.
WORKSHOP NOTE-BOOK--WOODWORKING.
By George G. Greene.
A small-size textbook and notebook combined. It furnishes a
few general and extremely important directions about tools and
processes; and provides space for additional notes and working
drawings of exercises and articles which the pupil is to
construct. It is essentially a collection of helps, ideas,
hints, suggestions, questions, facts, illustrations, etc.,
which have been prepared by a practical teacher to meet a real
need in his own shop. The notebook is full of suggestions;
shows a keen insight into subject matter and teaching methods
and is an effective teaching tool.
PROBLEMS IN WOOD-TURNING. By Fred D. Crawshaw.
In the first place this is a book of problems--25 plates
covering spindle, face-plate, and chuck turning. In the second
place it is a textbook on the science and art of wood-turning
illustrated by fifty pen sketches. It gives the mathematical
basis for the cuts used in turning. In the third place it is
a helpful discussion of the principles of design as applied
to objects turned in wood. It is a clear, practical and
suggestive book on wood-turning.
WOOD PATTERN-MAKING. By Horace T. Purfield.
This book was written expressly for use as a textbook for
high school, trade school, technical school, and engineering
college students. It is a revised, enlarged, and newly
illustrated edition.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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