A book of full-page plates and accompanying text giving
complete directions for making 86 projects of interest to the
energetic American boy. The projects are for the school, the
home, the playground, the camp, the out-of-doors, and include
a complete wireless telegraph apparatus. The plates give every
required dimension, and show each project complete and in
detail. The text is in reality working directions telling just
"how to make," including bills of material, lists of tools
required, etc. A thoroly practical and suggestive book
for school use and rich in inspiration for the boy in his own
home shop.
SEAT WEAVING. By L. Day Perry.
A handbook for teacher or student. Tells how to cane chairs,
how to use cane webbing, how to do rush seating, how to
do reed and splint weaving, how to make seats of reeds and
splints, how to prepare raw materials, how to stain, finish
and refinish, etc. Also treats of the use of cane and other
seating materials as a decorative element in furniture
construction. Well illustrated, practical and authoritative.
FURNITURE UPHOLSTERY FOR SCHOOLS. By Emil A. Johnson.
The only text and reference book on upholstery written for
school use. Contains detailed, practical instructions
telling how to upholster a variety of articles, also how
to re-upholster old furniture and how to do spring-edge
upholstery work. Describes necessary tools and materials.
Abundantly and beautifully illustrated.
PRACTICAL TYPOGRAPHY. By George E. McClellan.
A remarkable textbook for students of printing. It contains a
course of exercises ready to place in the hands of pupils,
and explains and illustrates the most approved methods used
in correct composition. A valuable feature of the book lies in
the fact that in the early stages of the course the pupil sets
up in type a description of what he is doing with his hands.
It contains 63 exercises, treating of composition from
"Correct Spacing" to the "Making up of a Book," and the
"Composition of Tables."
ART METALWORK. By Arthur F. Payne.
A textbook written by an expert craftsman and experienced
teacher. It treats of the various materials and their
production, ores, alloys, commercial forms, etc.; of tools and
equipments suitable for the work, the inexpensive equipment
of the practical craftsman; and of the correlation of art
metalwork with design and other school subjects. It describes
in detail all the processes involved in making articles
ranging from a watch fob to a silver loving-cup. It gives new
methods of construction, new finishes, new problems. It is
abundantly and beautifully illustrated, showing work done by
students under ordinary school conditions in a manual training
shop. The standard book on the subject.
TEACHING THE MANUAL AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
By Ira S. Griffith.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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