Wood Carving and Engraving - 7 eBooks On CD

WOOD-CARVING
AND
ENGRAVING

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1.  Wood Carving: Design and Workmanship  written in 1903 by George Jack is illustrated and has over 140 pages. "On the teaching of wood-carving I should like to say a word, as I have watched the course of instruction in many schools. It is desirable that classes should be provided with casts and photographs of good examples, such as Mr. Jack speaks of, varying from rough choppings up to minute and exquisite work, but all having the breath of life about them. There should also be a good supply of illustrations and photographs of birds and beasts and flowers, and above all, some branches and buds of real leafage. Then I would set the student of design in wood-carving to make variations of such examples according to his own skill and liking. If he and the teacher could be got to clear their minds of ideas of "style," and to take some example simply because they liked it, and to adapt it just because it amused them, the mystery of design would be nearly solved."

5. A Manual of Wood Carving by Charles Leland in 1909 is a 180 page book. "Finally, the author has endeavoured in these pages to treat wood-carving not merely as a fine art, whose chief aim is to produce specimens of fancy work for exhibitions, and facsimiles of flowers, never to be touched, but also to qualify the learner for a calling, and what nine-tenths of all practical wood-carving really consists of, that is, house and other large decoration, and of work which is to be perhaps painted, and exposed to the air. There is no reason why the artist should not be prepared to undertake figure-heads for ships, garden gates, cornices for roofs and rooms, dados, door panels, and similar work, as well as mere drawing-room toys, which should have no finish save the delicate touch of the cutting tool.

2. Wood Sculpture  written by Alfred Maskell in 1911 is over 500 pages in length. "I cannot pretend to universal knowledge of existing examples of wood sculpture, in all countries and of all ages, which may have claims for notice. In my selections I have given the preference, as a rule, to those which have come under my own notice in our home museums and in many museums and collections on the Continent. I have availed myself largely of numerous notes made at various times during several years, as well as of other assistance whenever I have found anything already collected which appeared to me to be useful."

4. Fret Sawing and Wood Carving  by George Sawyer was written in 1875 and is 90 pages in length. 
Contents of this book include: TOOLS AND ACCESSORIES FOR FRET-SAWING; TOOLS AND ACCESSORIES FOR CARVING; SAW-FRAMES AND SAWS; MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS; SHARPENING TOOLS; WOODS; GLUE, VARNISH, OILING, AND POLISHING; COPYING AND TRANSFERRING PATTERNS; How TO USE THE SAW and How TO USE THE CARVING-TOOLS.

2. A Brief History of Wood Engraving  was written in 1895 by Joesph Cundall, and is 140 pages in length. ""The first undoubted fact that we can arrive at in the history of wood-engraving is that early in the fifteenth century there were to be found, in many of the monasteries and convents in various parts of Europe, prints of the Virgin with the Holy Infant, the most popular Saints, and Subjects from the Bible, which were certainly taken from engravings on wood; and we have now to describe some typical examples of primitive devotional pictures, printed by the xylographic process. The earliest of these woodcuts may date from 1380, and there are many which are assigned to the first half of the fifteenth century..."

6. A Treatise On Wood Engraving: With Upwards of Three Hundred Illustrations Engraved On Wood by John Jackson was written in 1861 has 700 pages.  "Though several English authors have, in modem times, written on the origin and early history of wood engraving, yet no one has hitherto given, in a distinct work, a connected account of its progress from the earliest period to the present time ; and no one, however confidently he may have expressed his opinion on the subject, appears to have thought it necessary to make himself acquainted with the practice of the art."

7. Elementary Sloyd and Whittling written by Gustaf Larson in 1906 is 100 pages in length. "Sloyd is tool work so arranged and employed as to stimulate and promote vigorous, intelligent self-activity for a purpose which the worker recognizes as good. By "Elementary Sloyd" is meant bench work in wood, in two dimensions adapted to children from eight to twelve years of age. In 1889 I published a series of working drawings for "Preliminary Sloyd" with a teachers' "Sloyd Manual of Working Directions. " The changes and improvements made since that time are the results gained from the experience of many teachers, and are embodied in the course here outlined."

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