The techniques of wood surface decoration

By David Hawkins

Book Overview

The beautiful designs and personal touches that you add to wood surfaces can be the most satisfying ways of all to enhance the look and feel of quality in your projects. Here is your complete guide to the whole range of techniques for wood surface decoration. Now at last your work can meet the highest standards, even though your experience may be limited. Hundreds of close-up charts and diagrams and clear, step-by-step instructions show how you can master intarsia and veneer, marquetry and parquetry (including oyster work, bandings and tunbridge ware), wood, metal and repetition inlay boullework and much more. Scores of photographs show you both museum-quality and elementary examples of each type of decoration-adding to an elegant, inspiring, but most of all practical handbook. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806964723
• ISBN13: 9780806964720
• Release Date: December 1899
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.