Home Improvements Books

Handicraft For Boys | by A. Frederick Collins

Did you ever think about what you'd do if you were shipwrecked on a tropical island like Robinson Crusoe ? Well, if you had a good, strong pocket-knife with you it wouldn't be so terribly bad and in a few months' time you'd have fashioned all the things you'd need to furnish a three-room palmetto bungalow. To be sure your furniture wouldn't be very highly finished but it would be awfully artistic and while in a civilized community it might be looked upon as a rare exhibit of savage workmanship, it would serve you nobly and well in your island home. But you don't have to be marooned on a lonely isle or limited to the use of a jack-knife to show your prowess as a worker in wood. All you need to do is to get some out of the way room where there is plenty of light for a workshop and buy a few good tools to work with and you'll take as keen a pleasure in making useful things with your own hands as Robinson Crusoe did.

Carpentry And Mechanics For Boys | by A. Neely Hall

A boy with a hobby learns independence of thought and action

Woodwork For Beginners | by Ira Samuel Griffith

This book has been written in the hope that it may be of service in those grammar schools where a more extended treatment of subject-matter, such as that contained in the author's Essentials of Woodworking, is not possible of utilization to an extent sufficient to warrant its adoption as an individual text. The average time presupposed for the accomplishment of the subject-matter contained herein, with its efficient application in the form of projects or models, is from one to three hours a week for a period of two years, or its equivalent. One-third of this time may well be devoted to correlated mechanical drawing.

Advanced Projects in Woodwork | by Ira S. Griffith

Advanced Projects in Woodwork is a collection of projects designed to meet the needs of classes in high school woodworking. These projects presuppose familiarity with woodworking processes, tools, and the two simple joints required in the making of projects contained in the author's Projects in Beginning Woodwork and Mechanical Drawing

Correlated Courses In Woodwork And Mechanical Drawing | by Ira S. Griffith

The author wishes to state that the basis of the following courses rests more upon the art or practice of teaching manual training than upon the theory. It is the result of carefully prepared plans executed under public school conditions by the author himself, covering a period of some nine years of experimentation. Wherever plans, or theory, were found producing results which common sense indicated plainly were not for the pupils' highest good, practical expediency supplanted theory.

Carpentry | by Ira Samuel Griffith

It is the author's hope that the following text may be of service to apprentices to the trade, to vocational and trade school students, and to manual training students. The author's experience as a carpenter leads him to feel that not a few journeyman carpenters may find their horizon widened and their usefulness as framers of the unusual roof increased by a study of Chapter IV where an effort has been made to indicate how the principles involved in framing the square and octagonal roof may be "generalized" so as to make possible their application to roofs of any number of sides. Beyond this, the book makes claims to being nothing more than an elementary treatise of the essentials of carpentry.

A Manual Of The Hand Lathe

I did not write this little book with the intention of apologizing to the prospective reader, so soon as I had done so, but with the honest, I hope not egotistical, feeling that I had something to say that was not generally known. We live to learn and to impart what we know to others, and I have taken this method of giving my experience in a pastime that is elevating, artistic in every sense of the word, and a wholesome relief from the cares of business.

Handbook In Woodwork And Carpentry | by Charles A. King

This series consists of five volumes, four of which are intended as textbooks for pupils in manual-training, industrial, trade, technical, or normal schools. The fifth book of the series, the "Handbook in Woodwork and Carpentry," is for the use of teachers and of normal students who expect to teach the subjects treated in the other four volumes.

Elements Of Woodwork | by Charles A. King

In preparing this book, it has been the author's purpose to present, in as complete and concise form as possible, the knowledge which every wood-worker should possess regarding the care and use of his tools and the material upon which he employs them.

Elementary Turning | by Frank Henry Selden

The series of exercises given in this text is the result of the author's experience in teaching turning. Each model has been developed for the purpose of teaching a correct use of the tools, so that pupils can do excellent work without the long drill to acquire skill or the necessity of scraping where cutting tools should be used. If turning lathes are to be used in the school, they should be used properly. It is the hope of the author that this manual will aid such instructors as are trying to teach a rational method of turning.

Elements Of Construction | by Charles A. King

This volume deals with the use of the common woodworking tools, the simple forms of construction used in fastening wood together, and the reading and understanding of simple drawings - all of which will be found of indispensable value, not only to the student of manual training, but to those who, either as amateurs or professionals, have anything to do with work of a mechanical nature. The problems in elementary construction are intended to familiarize the pupil with their various uses, and one or more of these problems, bearing upon the work he is to do, should precede the undertaking of any really important work

Inside Finishing | by Charles A. King

In many places carpenters are classified as framers or outside men, and joiners or inside men; the subject matter treated in the following pages refers especially to the work of the latter, as it deals with the fitting up of the house to make it habitable after the framing, covering, and outside finishing have been completed. Certain aspects of carpentry of interest to the prospective contractor are also dealt with, and suggestions are offered which will be of assistance to him in placing his business upon a satisfactory basis.

Constructive Carpentry | by Charles A. King

Before undertaking the work included in the following pages, the student should have passed through that contained in "Elements of Woodwork" and "Elements of Construction," or their equivalent. In preparing the material for this book, it has been the author's first purpose to arrange and present the subjects in such a manner that they will be easily adaptable to use in technical schools for students of architecture and engineering, and in trade and industrial schools for the teaching of the principles and methods of building construction, to students who plan to make carpentry a means of livelihood.

Elementary Woodwork | by Frank Henry Selden

The object of this work is to place before pupils who are beginning woodwork such information as will lead to a correct use of the tools and lay a good foundation for advanced work without lessening in any way the other benefits of school shop work. It is designed for elementary rather than technical instruction, and therefore many problems and suggestions found in other works have been omitted. Great care, however, has been taken to arrange and illustrate the exercises employed so that pupils will avoid the common error of using tools improperly in the first years of work, and thus escape fixing habits which later will cause much trouble. We are certain there is no need of using tools improperly in the first years of shop work.

Manual Training: First Lessons In Wood-Working | by Alfred G. Compton

The series of lessons in wood-working here presented is intended, principally, for use in schools in which hand-work is pursued as a part of general training. The order of sequence is designed to lead the pupil from one tool to another of larger capabilities, and from one operation to another requiring a higher degree of skill

Carpentry for Boys. How-To-Do-It Series | by J. S. Zerbe

In simple language, including chapters on drawing, laying out work, designing and architecture, with 250 original illustrations.

The Mechanical Properties Of Wood | by Samuel J. Record

Including a discussion of the factors affecting the mechanical properties, and methods of timber testing

Manual Instruction: Woodwork. The English Sloyd | by S. Barter

Manual Instruction, especially when wood is the material used, may be nothing more than the development of mechanical skill in the use of tools; and, as such, it is understood by many of its advocates. But this is not what 'Educators' conceive Manual Training to be. The Manual Training of the school must be a training which places intellectual and moral results before mechanical skill...

Wood-Block Printing | by F. Morley Fletcher

A description of the craft of woodcutting & colour printing based on the japanese practice by F. Morley Fletcher with drawings and illustrations by the author and A. W. Seaby. Also collotype reproductions of various examples of printing, and an original print designed and cut by the author printed by hand on japanese taper.

Wood-Carving. Design And Workmanship | by George Jack

Be you apprentice or student, or what is still better, both in one, I introduce the following pages to you with this explanation: that all theoretical opinions set forth therein are the outcome of many years of patient sifting and balancing of delicate questions, and these have with myself long since passed out of the category of mere "opinions" into that of settled convictions. With regard to the practical matter of "technique," it lies very much with yourself to determine the degree of perfection to which you may attain. This depends greatly upon the amount of application which you may be willing or able to devote to its practise.

Woodwork Joints | by William Fairham

To be successful in woodwork construction the possession of two secrets is essential - to know the right joint to use, and to know how to make that joint in the right way. The woodwork structure or the piece of cabinet-work that endures is the one on which skilful hands have combined to carry out what the constructive mind planned. And it is just here that the present Volume will help, not alone the beginner who wishes preliminary instruction, but also the expert who desires guidance over ground hitherto unexplored by him.

Selected Woodwork Shop Problems | by George A. Seaton

The persistent demand for certain numbers of the Manual Training Magazine has made it evident to the publishers that some of the articles in these numbers ought to be reprinted and sold at such a price as will enable teachers to purchase them in quantities for use in their classes. Moreover, it is believed that from time to time in the future, the Magazine will publish articles which, owing to their special value, ought to be reprinted soon after they appear in the Magazine.

Tool Processes In Woodworking | by A. P. Laughlin

This little book is intended to set out only those things that a boy must know in order to do intelligent work with the usual woodworking tools. It is peculiar in what it omits as well as in the way it presents its subject-matter. It omits everything that the boy can find out easily for himself or that does not contribute to his understanding and skill in the use of tools. Under the head of Reference Work these omissions are suggested as topics for study. Let the students look up these matters as they come to them. A few reference books will do for a large class when used in this way and the boys will come to see the value of books and learn how to use them in their work.

Manual Training In The Grades | by Frank Halstead

The following courses in Manual Training for the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades were prepared after eight years of careful study, during which time the author visited over 250 cities and towns in the New England States, New York and New Jersey. The courses are arranged progressively and presented in as clear and simple a way as possible, - the drawings themselves being self-explanatory.

Shop Projects Based On Community Problems | by Myron G. Burton

Modern Educators have come to realize that the only avenue of approach to the child's mind is through the light of his experience, therefore recent text-books are being so arranged as to utilize the things with which the child comes in contact outside of school as well as in the classroom in guiding him into new fields of knowledge. Under the old school the plan of the text-book was to arrange the subject-matter in a logical and scientific way, giving but little consideration to the immediate interest of the child, or to the natural steps of his development. This so-called logical arrangement placed the paramount consideration on a skillful organization of the great store of racial subject-matter, and was no doubt quite satisfactory to the learned scholar or the mature mind provided with a broad field of experience...

Workshop Notes & Sketches For Handicraft Classes

Being a first year's course in wood & metal working

Boring, Recessing And Multiple Turning Tools

A boring tool or boring-bar is, in itself, a very simple tool and yet, in its various applications, it may require considerable forethought in order to obtain a tool which will be exactly the right one for the job. In order to properly design any kind of a cutting tool, an intimate knowledge of the actual working conditions which are met with in using the tool is a valuable asset. There are a number of factors which influence the design of boring tools and there are also many types of machinery to which boring tools may be applied...

Problems In Woodworking | by M. W. Murray

A Realization of the difficulty in obtaining drawings of good models which can be given as class exercises has led to the preparation of these problems. The aim has been to save teachers the labor of making drawings and blue prints of models, many of which are in general use at the present time. No attempt has been made to plan a course of study or to arrange the models with any special regard to a logical order of exercises, but for convenience they have been grouped by grades. No models have been included which have not been successfully made by boys in the three upper grammar grades.

Modern American Lathe Practice | by Oscar E. Perrigo

A new, complete and practical work on the "King of machine shop tools", the american lathe. Giving its origin and development. Its design. Its various types as manufactured by different builders, including engine lathes, heavy lathes, high-speed lathes, special lathes, turret lathes, electrically driven lathes, and many others. Lathe attachments, lathe work, lathe tools, rapid change gear mechanisms, speeds and feeds, power for cutting tools, lathe testing, etc.

A Laboratory Course In Wood-Turning | by Michael Joseph Golden

The practice of wood-turning is an art relative to which there is little published, and there is, in consequence, little chance for arriving at conclusions as to the best method for performing any given operation; so there is a wide diversity in the methods by which different operators arrive at the same results. Some use one tool almost exclusively, while others use a large variety of tools. The following exercises are designed to give the operator command of the more commonly used tools, using each for the operations for which it is especially fitted.

Elementary Sloyd And Whittling | by Gustaf Larsson

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.

Sloyd: Educational Manual Training | by Everett Schwartz

The object of this book is to give to teachers a complete system of work, based upon purely educational principles, extending from the kindergarten through the high school; a system that has been tried with success in some of the best schools, and pronounced most excellent by leading educators of the country; a system, too, that the best educated mechanics consider sound and practical as well as progressive. Moreover, it is a system that will set teachers to thinking and inventing for themselves; and, while it will give them an opportunity to learn how to make correctly with tools the models preparatory to teaching, it will cause them to see the vital connection between the Manual Training and the other school work.

Scientific Sloyd | by Anna Molander

"Sloyd" is the verbal expression for a combined mental and manual training along correct pedagogical lines. Its purpose is a distinct educational one in opposition to the merely domestic and mechanical industries. The word "Sloyd" is derived from the Swedish language.

The Teacher's Hand-Book Of Slojd | by Otto Salomon

As practised and taught at naas containing explanations and details of each exercise. With practical directions for making the models.

Hand-Craft: The Most Reliable Basis Of Technical Education In Schools And Classes | by John D. Sutcliffe

A text book embodying a system of pure mechanical art, without the aid of machinery ; Being an english exposition of slojd as cultivated in sweden, and generally adopted by all scandinavian peoples, to their great advantage.

Handcraft In Wood And Metal | by John Hooper and Alfred J. Shirley

A handbook of training in their practical working for teachers, students and craftsmen

Manual Training For The Rural Schools | by Louis M. Roehl

A Group Of Farm and Home Woodworking Problems

Art And Education In Wood-Turning | by William W. Klenke

This book is intended primarily for the use of students in normal schools, high schools, colleges or similar institutions and for lovers of all things useful and beautiful in wood-turning. It aims by means of text and illustrations to give such facts about the art of wood-turning as are needed by students and teachers in the schools. In giving these facts, whenever there is a question between two methods of procedure, the one being the method of the factory expert in wood-turning, and the other the method of the art craftsman in the school, the latter has been employed. As a result it is sometimes true that a less direct method is recommended than is employed by the commercial turner, but this is justified on the ground of the purpose of the book, which is fundamentally educational.

Lathe Design, Construction And Operation

A complete practical work on the lathe. giving its origin and development. its design. Its various types as manufactured by different builders, including engine lathes, heavy lathes, highspeed lathes, special lathes, turret lathes, electrically driven lathes, and many others. Lathe attachments, lathe work, lathe tools, rapid change gear mechanisms, speeds and feeds, power for cutting tools, lathe testing, turning tapers, methods of milling and grinding in the lathe, thread cutting, lathe installation, etc.

Bench Work In Wood | by W. F. M. Goss

Most of the illustrations presented with the following chapters are in the form of Mechanical Drawings. To the novice, these may appear confusing; but careful attention to some of the principles underlying their construction will enable him readily to interpret their meaning. A mechanical drawing, as distinguished from a perspective drawing, or picture, instead of giving all the characteristics of an object at a glance, presents them in detail, giving in one view one set of elements, in another view another set of elements, and so on, until the form of the object is accurately defined.

Design and Construction in Wood | by William Noyes

The purpose of the following studies is, (I) to give to beginners in woodworking an opportunity for the acquisition of skill in the handling of tools, and, (II) some practice in designing simple projects in wood.

Our Workshop

Being A Practical Guide To The Amateur In The Art Of Carpentry And Joinery

The Art And Craft Of Cabinet-Making | by David Denning

A practical handbook to the construction of cabinet furniture the use of tools, formation of joints, hints on designing and setting out work, veneering, etc. Together with a review of the development of furniture

The Cabinet-Maker's Assistant

A series original designs for modern furniture, with descriptions and details of construction. Preceded by practical observations on the materials and manufacture of cabinet-work and instructions in drawing adapted to the trade.

The Carpenters, Joiners, Cabinet Makers, And Gilders' Companion | by F. Reinnel

Containing rules and instructions in the art of carpentry, joining, cabinet making, and gilding; veneering, inlaying, varnishing and polishing, dying and staining wood, ivory, etc, the best methods of preparing glue, cements and compositions and a variety of valuable receipts; with illustrations showing the various methods of dove-tailing, mortice and tenonding, etc. etc. etc.

Furniture Designing And Draughting | by Alvan Crocker Nye

Notes on the elementary forms, methods of construction and dimensions of common articles of furniture

Elementary Woodwork | by George B. Kilbon

The title given to this book was chosen because of the purpose to present fundamental exercises in a simple form for the use of beginners. Effort has been made to detail operations minutely, hoping to be of service to novices, though well aware that no book can be a substitute for an efficient instructor. The arrangement is from the easy to the difficult by successive steps, and is designed to give boys of twelve years and upward primary command of the use of a set comprising the principal wood-working tools. The smaller planes and saws are chiefly used. Other tools are of standard size. Small pieces of wood are used, since elementary instruction can be better given thereby. The different kinds of nail-driving, and the use of gauge and try-square, are first taught on boards prepared by machinery. The ability to use each tool should be mastered before undertaking the study of another.

Exercises In Wood-Working | by Ivin Sickels

With a short treatise on wood written for manual training classes in schools and colleges.

Modern Carpentry And Building | by W. A. Sylvester

Giving methods of obtaining the various cuts in carpentry. also, stair building, builders' estimates, slide rule, steel square, strength of materials, mathematical rules, etc. Also giving a mumber of half-tone views of beautiful modern residences, together with convenient modern floor plans; Also, a complete set of framing flans, showing most approved method of modern construction.

Elementary Principles Carpentry | by Thomas Tredgold

The theory of carpentry is founded on two distinct branches of mechanical science: one informs us how strains are transmitted through a system of framing, and is determined by that part which treats of the equality and distribution of forces; the other, how to proportion the parts, so that they may be sufficiently strong to resist the strains to which they are exposed, or that which treats of the strength or resistance of materials. Each of these will be considered in the most simple manner the subject will admit of, with the addition of rules and practical remarks.

Rustic Carpentry | by Paul N. Hasluck

This Handbook contains, in a form convenient for everyday use, a number of articles on Rustic Carpentry contributed by various authors to Work - one of the journals it is my fortune to edit.

The Carpenters' Guide | by Harvey Miller

Treating on lines and the square also giving practical rules and methods on carpentry

Wood Turning | by George Alexander Ross

This little work is sent out with the hope that it may prove of practical benefit to those into whose hands it may come.

Turning Lathes | by James Lukin

A Guide To Turning, Screw-Cutting, Metal-Spinning, Ornamental Turning, Etc. For Technical Schools And Apprentices

A Course In Wood Turning | by Archie S. Milton, Otto K. Milton

This book is the outgrowth of problems given to high school pupils by the writers, and has been compiled in logical sequence. Stress is laid upon the proper use of tools, and the problems are presented in such a way that each exercise, or project, depends somewhat on the one preceding. It is not the idea of the writers that all problems shown should be made, but that the instructor select only such as will give the pupils enough preliminary work in the use of the tools to prepare them for other models following.

Text-Book Of Modern Carpentry | by Thomas William Silloway

Comprising a treatise on building-timber, with rules and tables for calculating its strength, and the strains to which each timber op a structure is subjected; obserbations on roofs, crusses, bribgcs, etc.; and a glossary, explaining at length the technical terms in use among carpenters.

Woodwork Course For Boys | by William Nelson

Consisting of a graduated series of thirty models, arranged so as to cover the requirements of the science and art department, south kensington. Containing full working drawings, and practical directions for making each model.

Woodworking For Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs | by Charles G. Wheeler

The aim of this book is to suggest to amateurs of all ages many things which they can profitably make of wood, and to start them in the way to work successfully. It is hoped that, in the case of boys, it may show them pleasant and useful ways to work off some of their surplus energy, and at the same time contribute toward their harmonious all-round development...

Carpentry For Beginners - Things To Make | by John D. Adams

There is no lack of textbooks telling the amateur carpenter with mathematical exactness just how to make a dovetail joint or a mortise and tenon connection. The beginner has no difficulty in finding ample instruction as to the theory of carpentry, and may read at great length precisely how to hold the hammer or manipulate a plane. With this phase of the subject the present volume has no concern. It is not expected that those to whom the book is addressed aim to become professional carpenters. The object of the volume is 'merely to present as clearly as possible an interesting 'and practical field to the young craftsman, and this is sufficient for the reason that if the work is made 'interesting he will soon find out all he needs to know about tools, and if the results are of practical value he will not lack encouragement...

Colonial Furniture In America | by Luke Vincent Lockwood

During the eleven years that have elapsed since the publication of the first edition of this work, many important pieces of furniture have been brought to the attention of the writer, which substantiate the theory of development therein expressed. The writer has had the opportunity to examine several thousand pieces of American and English furniture, and from this examination it has become possible to determine in many instances the section of the country in which a piece was made. This examination has also shown the importance of mouldings in determining date and locality, and emphasis has been placed upon this feature throughout this work. So much new material has been acquired that the book has been entirely rewritten, the type reset, and the form extended to two volumes.

Early English Furniture and Woodwork | by Herbert Cescinsky, Ernest. R. Gribble

In the attempt to write a history of English furniture and woodwork showing its development in an orderly progression, one is confronted by an initial difficulty; where to begin. Of woodwork prior to the fourteenth century we know very little, and of furniture practically nothing. Even if isolated specimens, for illustration, were available, - which is not the case, - they would be useless for our present purpose. I have pointed out, in other books on the subject, that an account of the evolution of furniture types, - especially when an attempt is made to date examples, - must be a chronicle of the fashions which prevailed at various periods...

French Furniture | by Andre Saglio

The history of furniture in a country of a civilisation so old and so brilliant as that of France is a very different thing from a technical review of archaeology or art. It is the history of the very soul of a people, with its alternations of grandeur and of degradation, of achievement and of failure; in a word, it is the history of the inner life of a nation, a life that is too often overlooked in studying the glorious or tragic episodes in which kings and nobles overshadow their subjects. Yet those subjects are as important as dynasties in the annals of history. Turn, for instance, for a moment from the accounts of the victories of this or that conqueror to the home of some one of the men whose destinies he controls...

French And English Furniture | by Esther Singleton

Distinctive styles and periods described and illustrated

A Glossary Of English Furniture Of The Historic Periods | J. Penderel-Brodhurs and Edwin J. Layton

The output of books upon furniture, English and foreign, has of late years acquired a very large volume, and the work of almost every period has been described and illustrated, often many times over. But amid this extensive and ever-growing literature there is still no work of reference which, with simplicity and brevity and in a handy form, defines the meaning and scope of the technical terms and historical allusions to be found upon almost every page of any book dealing with furniture. No subject, and this, perhaps, least of all, can profitably be studied without a clear understanding of the descriptive language which has grown up around it. Dictionaries are of little help to the general reader and of still less to the student, and the lack of anything in the nature of a reasonably full and systematic Glossary of English Furniture, embodying the names and dates of the great exemplars of the famous English styles, led the authors to make this attempt to fill the gap...

English Furniture | by Frederick S. Robinson

The aim of this book is to be of some assistance to those who collect, or propose to collect, English furniture. The subjects of the plates, therefore, have been chosen mainly for the purpose of affording a good general view of the usual types with which a collector may meet. A false idea of English furniture would be formed if the majority of the objects reproduced were such as are seldom or never found for sale. At the same time, there are included many rare and beautiful pieces to demonstrate the artistic and technical skill of English designers and cabinetmakers...

Dutch And Flemish Furniture | by Esther Singleton

No special inducement need be held out to an educated Englishman at the present day to take an interest in a particular field of the arts and crafts of the Low Countries. Long before the nobles of Flanders, France and England were associated in attempts to free the holy places from the pollution of infidel possession, the dwellers on the opposite coasts of England, Normandy and the Netherlands had been bound together by many dynastic and trade bonds. As we follow the course of history, we find that the interests of the English and the Flemings were inextricably connected; and there was a constant stream of the manufactures of the Low Countries pouring into English ports...

A History Of Furniture | by Albert Jacquemart

With chapters on tapestry. oriental embroidery and leather work, bronzes, ivobies and other figures, clocks and time pieces, wrought iron, brass and other metal work, jewellery, gems and enamels, glass and ceramics, oriental lacquer and varnish, etc.,

Box Furniture | by Louise Brigham

How to make a hundred useful articles for the home

Furniture | by Esther Singleton

Various furniture styles are presented in this book.

Furniture Designing And Draughting | by Alvan Crocker Nye

Notes on the elementary forms, methods of construction and dimensions of common articles of furniture

Furniture Of The Olden Time | by Frances Clary Morse

The furniture of the American colonies was at first of English manufacture, but before long cabinet-makers and joiners plied their trade in New England, and much of the furniture now found there was made by the colonists. In New Amsterdam, naturally, a different style prevailed, and the furniture was Dutch. As time went on and the first hardships were surmounted, money became more plentiful, until by the last half of the seventeenth century much fine furniture was imported from England and Holland, and from that time fashions in America were but a few months behind those in England.

Home Furnishing | by George Leland Hunter

Facts and figures about furniture carpets and rugs, lamps and lighting fixtures, wall papers, window shades and draperies, tapestries, etc.

How To Collect Old Furniture | by Frederick Litchfield

IN another work on the subject of Furniture I have endeavoured to trace the changes in style and fashion from Antique to Mediaeval, from Mediaeval to Renaissance, and from Renaissance to Modern, but in the following notes I have attempted to give the reader some descriptions of the various kinds of furniture, made in different countries, from the sixteenth to the middle of the nineteenth century, omitting the earlier periods. As examples of the latter are seldom seen except in museums, they are, for all practical purposes, unobtainable by the collector of ordinary means.

How To Buy Furniture For The Home | by Forrest Loman Oilar

Furniture is one of the chief requisites in our lives, promoting, as it does, health and happiness. Few have wealth, but all must have a home. Do we realize what a factor the furnishing of a home is, in the scheme of modern civilization ? We have as much a duty in educating the home-maker in the selection of furniture as in preaching civic beauty. To create harmony in a home is to raise the average of culture and intelligence...

Hints On Household Taste In Furniture, Upholstery And Other Details | by Charles L. Eastlake

There are an increasing number of people in all classes who are desiring to live among more picturesque surroundings. Mr. C. L. Eastlake has just published a handsome volume which will be of immense value to such persons, and will tend to increase their number. "Hints on Household Taste" is a plea for the artistic furnishing of our houses, and a guide to such furnishing.

Home Furnishing, Practical And Artistic | by Alice M. Kellogg

The progressive spirit of the new century and the rapid artistic development throughout our country have awakened a widespread, intelligent interest in all matters relating to the Art of the House. The interior of the home is naturally a reflection of its occupants, and the possibility of achieving satisfying results has created an ardent desire for adequate knowledge. Even in homes of moderate cost an effort to unite beauty and utility has become remarkably apparent, and, fortunately, artistic surroundings are not dependent on large outlays of money...

Old Oak Furniture | Fred Roe

The object which the writer has aimed at in the present work is to classify the various examples of each article of furniture as near as may be in chronological order. I have in the great majority of cases, and wherever it has been possible, based my descriptions and theories on personal investigation of the articles discussed, whether English or Continental, occasionally supporting conjectures as to dates by the external evidence of contemporary writers or manuscript illustrators. In studying the history of furniture, it should always be remembered that the restoration of rare or unusual objects in one's mind's eye, though an intensely fascinating occupation, is one which is apt to lead astray. Viollet le Duc, while giving a most astounding series of details from personal research, obviously romances at times through this love of elaboration. While admiring the greatness of his master-mind, I have endeavoured to withstand the insidious temptation of reconstruction.

The Old Furniture Book | by Hannah Hudson Moore

With a sketch of past days and ways. With one hundred and twelve illustrations

The Practical Book Of Period Furniture | by Harold Donaldson Eberlein And Abbot McClure

Treating of furniture of the English, American colonial and post-colonial and principal French periods

Style In Furniture | by R. Davis Benn

The following pages have been written with two distinct aims in view. In the first place, it has been my endeavour to treat my subject in such a vein as to render the text interesting to those who may wish to acquire sufficiently accurate knowledge of old English and some French furniture in order that they may be able to distinguish one style from another, to apportion each to its proper period, and to learn something of the history of all, without entering upon a very deep study of the questions involved. For inquirers of this class, I trust that my general remarks in each chapter will afford the necessary information.

Hints And Practical Information For Cabinet-Makers, Upholsterers, And Furniture Men Generally Author: John Phin

Together with a description of all kinds of Finishing, with full directions Varnishes, Polishes, Stains for Wood, Dyes for Wood. Gilding and Silvering, Receipts for the Factory, Lacquers, Metals, Marbles etc. Pictures, Engravings, etc. Miscellaneous.

Practical Hints For Furniture Men | by John Phin

Relating to all kinds of Finishing, with full directions Varnishes, Polishes, Stains for Wood, Dyes for Wood. Gilding and Silvering, Receipts for the Factory, Lacquers, Metals, Marbles etc. Pictures, Engravings, etc. Miscellaneous.

The Bedroom And Boudoir | by Lady Barker

Too much attention can scarcely be expended on our sleeping rooms in order that we may have them wholesome, convenient and cheerful. It is impossible to over-estimate the value of refreshing sleep to busy people, particularly to those who are obliged to do much brainwork. In the following pages will, we hope, be found many hints with regard to the sanitary as well as the ornamental treatment of the bedroom.

The Practical Book Of Furnishing The Small House And Apartment | by Edward Stratton Holloway

We are so blinded by custom that we seldom consider what a mysterious endowment of our human nature is this sense of beauty and our satis-faction in it, and our longing for its perfect presence. Beyond what is useful, what is true, what is good and orderly and just, there clings to the soul of man this idea of what is infinitely beautiful. A man may not be able to explain it, but there it is. He may not be able to agree with other men as to what constitutes such beauty, but the sense of it is there in him and in them, importunate, indestructible. Canon George William Douglas, Cathedral Of St. John The Divine, New York. From an ex tempore address at the Cathedral Auxilliary meeting, Diocese of Pennsylvania, reprinted in The Living Church.

Principles Of Home Decoration With Practical Examples | Candace Wheeler

Probably no art has so few masters as that of decoration. In England, Morris was for many years the great leader, but among his followers in England no one has attained the dignity of unquestioned authority; and in America, in spite of far more general practice of the art, we still are without a leader whose very name establishes law. It is true we are free to draw inspiration from the same sources which supplied Morris and the men associated with him in his enthusiasms, and in fact we do lean, as they did, upon English eighteenth - century domestic art - and derive from the men who made that period famous many of our articles of faith; but there are almost no authoritative books upon the subject of appropriate modern decoration. Our text books are still to be written; and one must glean knowledge from many sources, shape it into rules, and test the rules, before adopting them as safe guides...

Our Homes And Their Adornments | by Almon C. Varney

Or, How to build, finish, furnish, and adorn a home, containing practical instructions for the building of homes, interior decoration, wood carving, soroll sawing, house painting, window hangings, screens, curtains, window gardening, incidental decorations, decorative-art needle-work, and economic landscape gardening; To which is added a household compendium of new, practical and valuable recipes, the whole being designed to make happy homes for happy people.

Interior Decoration: Its Principles And Practice | by Frank Alvah Parsons

>Much confusion exists at the present time as to the artistic essentials of a modern house. A great deal has been written - perhaps more has been said - about this subject, and still it is vague to most of us. This vagueness is partly because we have not realized fully that a house is but the normal expression of one's intellectual concept of fitness and his aesthetic ideal of what is beautiful. The house is but the externalized man; himself expressed in colour, form, line and texture. To be sure, he is usually limited in means, hampered by a contrary and penurious landlord or by family heirlooms, and often he cannot find just what he wants in the trade; but still the house is his house...

Interior Decoration For The Small Home | by Amy L. Rolfe

It has been the purpose to bring together in this book the chief principles of art as they may be applied to the furnishing of homes of people of moderate means. Many volumes have been written upon the subject of house furnishing which describe in great detail the expensive furniture, rugs, and tapestries which can be purchased only by those few individuals who are also financially able to employ professional interior decorators and who for that reason have less need for a simple guide. It is the people who must make their own selections of furnishings and plan their arrangement who especially require some economic and artistic knowledge on the subject, so that they may obtain the greatest amount of beauty and convenience for the least expenditure. If they understand color and form harmony in the essential relation to artistic unity, they should then have sufficient confidence to express some of their own individuality in their homes as they endeavor to combine the ideal with the practical. Beauty and suitability will by this means be the result of a conscious obedience to the laws of art.

Your Home And Its Decoration | by The Sherwin-Williams Company

A series of practical suggestions for the painting, decorating, and furnishing of the home

Homes And Their Decoration | by Lillie Hamilton French

In the following pages I have made no attempt to discuss architectural periods or problems. My purpose has been to help the bewildered householder to see clearly what results she has been striving for, and how to go to work to obtain them. I have discussed the question of decoration from this point of view only, quoting examples of successful interiors whenever they have seemed helpful. An experience of some years in answering letters from all over this country, from Canada, and from our colonists abroad, - letters written by women of wealth, of limited means, by the schoolgirl and the bride, - has enabled me to know something of the needs of a portion of my country-women...

The Decoration Of Houses | by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr.

Rooms may be decorated in two ways: by a superficial application of ornament totally independent of structure, or by means of those architectural features which are part of the organism of every house, inside as well as out. In the middle ages, when warfare and brigandage shaped the conditions of life, and men camped in their castles much as they did in their tents, it was natural that decorations should be portable, and that the naked walls of the mediaeval chamber should be hung with arras, while a ciel, or ceiling, of cloth stretched across the open timbers of its roof...

The Principles Of Interior Decoration | by Bernard C. Jakway

The nature and the purpose of this study are, I believe, accurately indicated by its title. It is an attempt to analyze, correlate and set forth as clearly as possible the artistic principles that underlie sound work in the decoration of houses. This attempt is based upon the conviction that in a knowledge of these principles, their scientific basis, and the methods of their application, the beginner in this art will find the surest and easiest path to reasonably successful results in practice. The book is designed primarily to be of interest to the housewife, concerned with the attractiveness of her home; to the worker in housefurnishing shops, concerned with increasing the value of his services; to the teacher, concerned with imparting compact and workable knowledge, and to the reader who desires a general understanding of the subject. In other words, it is designed to be of interest primarily to the beginner and the reader whose knowledge of interior decoration is limited, rather than to the artist and the expert.

The Practical Book Of Interior Decoration | by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Abbot Mcclure, Edward Stratton Holloway

It is hard to understand why someone has not written such a book as this before, a book covering the three great needs of anyone approaching in any capacity the matter of household decoration. History is a treasure house of the crystallised experience that has slowly evolved in past ages, a treasure house ready for us to draw upon as we will. The limit of our taking from its stores is marked only by our capacity to receive. This is especially true in the case of so concrete a subject as interior decoration where many enduring examples of the best achievements of former generations in that field have been preserved for us practically intact...

The New Interior: Modern Decorations For The Modern Home | by Hazel H. Adler

It is hoped that this book will be of practical aid to that large body of intelligent people who are seeking to create for themselves expressive and individual environments of life. It does not aim to set down cut and dried rules and principles, or to attempt to enforce any particular type or style of decoration, but to suggest new possibilities and open new trains of thought by setting forth those fresh and stimulating currents which are influencing the creators of what has been called "the new taste" in interior decoration...

The Art Of Decoration | by H. R. Haweis

"Yet Nature is made better by no mean, But Nature makes that mean; so o'er that art Which, yon say, adds to Nature, is an art That Nature makes." - Shakespeare.

The Art Of Interior Decoration | by Grace Wood, Emily Burbank

If you would have your rooms interesting as well as beautiful, make them say something, give them a spinal column by keeping all ornamentation subservient to line. Before you buy anything, try to imagine how you want each room to look when completed; get the picture well in your mind, as a painter would; think out the main features, for the details all depend upon these and will quickly suggest themselves. This is, in the long run, the quickest and the most economical method of furnishing...

The Workshop Companion | by John Phin

A collectifon of useful and reliable recipes, rules, processes, methods, wrinkles, and practical hints for the household and the shop.

Machine Shop Work | by Frederick W. Turner, Oscar E. Perrigo, Howard P. Fairfield

Comprehensive manual of approved shop methods including the construction and use of tools and machines, the details of their efficient operation, and a discussion of modern production methods

Turning And Mechanical Manipulation | Charles Holtzapffel

The author was led to undertake the present work on Turning and Mechanical Manipulation, from the circumstance of there bring no general treatise in the English language for the guidance of the Amateur in these pursuits. The original works by Plumier and Bergeron, although they were suited to the periods at which they were produced, are neither of them sufficient to convey instruction adequate to the present state of the Art; and the more recent French works leave unnoticed a large portion of the machines and instruments now used by Amateurs.

The Workshop Companion | by John Phin

A collection of useful and reliable recipes, rules, processes, methods, wrinkles, and practical hints for the household and the shop

Handy Man's Workshop And Laboratory | by A. Russell Bond

Every practical mechanic, whether amateur or professional, has been confronted at one time or another with unexpected situations calling for the exercise of considerable ingenuity. The resourceful man who has met an issue of this sort successfully seldom if ever is averse to making public his method of procedure. After all, he has little to gain by keeping the matter to himself and, appreciating the advice of other practical men in the same line of work, he is only too glad to contribute his own suggestions to the general fund of information.

Paint Making And Color Grinding | by Charles L. Uebele

A practical treatise for paint manufacturers and factory managers, including comprehensive information regarding factory ... as practical working formulas and recipes.

Chromatography; Or, A Treatise On Colours And Pigments, And Of Their Powers In Painting | by George Field

The progress of the Art of Painting under the happy auspices of this favoured country, the refinement of taste which it has so universally diffused, and the predilection which prevails for its study and practice as a necessary branch of polite education, render acceptable whatever can facilitate the acquisition, or advance the ends, of this useful, elegant, and enlightening accomplishment. Nor are the concerns of this art uninteresting in a still higher view, since whatever refines the taste, enhances the powers and improves the disposition and morals of a people, - and whatever improves the morals, promotes the happiness of man, individual and social. Hence the high moral and political value of this art, to say nothing of its commercial and religious uses, upon which so much stress has been justly laid.

Cyclopedia Of Painting | by George D. Armstrong

Containing Useful and Valuable Information on the Following Subjects: Adulteration of Paint - Blistering of Paint - Brushes - Cal-cimining - Carriage Painting - China Painting - Colors - Color Harmony - Color Mixing - Color Testing - Exterior Painting - Gilding - Graining - House Painting - Marbling - Mildew - Oils and Driers - Oil Painting on Glass - Painting a Bath Tub - Painting in Distemper - Paperhanger's Tools - Paperhanging - Pigments - Plain Oil Painting - Primary Colors - Priming - Scenic Painting - Sign Painting - Stains - Staining - Stencilling - Turpentine - Varnishes - Varnishing - Water Color Painting - When Not to Paint - Practical Points on Painting - Useful Information

Paint And Varnish Facts And Formulae | by J. N. Hoff

A hand book for the maker, dealer and user of paints and varnishes.

How To Take Care Of Your Home | by Douglas Tuomey

How To Take Care Of Your Home is written by a man who not only can tell you how to do your own repair work, but who can actually take up the tools and do it himself. Before adopting writing as a profession, Mr. Tuomey spent over thirty years in the building business as a contractor, and is an expert in plumbing, heating, masonry, carpentry, roofing and allied trades.

The Care Of A House | by T. M. Clark

A volume of suggestions to householders, housekeepers, landlords, tenants, trustees, and others, for the economical and efficient care of dwelling-houses

Mechanics Of The Household | by E. S. Keene

A course of study devoted to domestic machinery and household mechanical appliances

Practical Concrete Work for the School and Home | by H. Colin Campbell

Concrete has been the theme of many books. No excuse can be found for this one by claiming that the subject has not been written of before, yet the authors feel that there is a good excuse or reason for their efforts. While most of the volumes that have been written upon concrete are full of valuable information, the interested person has too frequently found that they contain but a little which really responds to his interest.

Repairs: How To Measure And Value Them | by George Stephenson

A handbook for the use of builders, decorators, etc.

Clay Glazes and Enamels | by Henry R. Griffen

The subject of the manufacture of glazed brick and sanitary ware has been treated more by English writers from an English standpoint than it has by American writers. The clays of our country are so little known to-day, in respect to their adaptability to this purpose, and the majority of them are so different from the English clays in use, that English experience and receipts are hardly applicable to our purposes. We have no clay or class of clays that are known to be specially adapted to the manufacture of these goods, and, in consequence, we cannot have cut and dried rules for their production. The treatment given each clay must depend upon its various characteristics, and must vary therewith. As our experience becomes greater we may develop a clay or class of clays that are specially adapted to the business, and may be able to agree upon a best method of handling them. Until that time, each individual must do the best he can, and use such methods and schemes as he finds best adapted to the clays with which he has to deal.

Elements Of Plumbing | by Samuel Edward Dibble

In preparing this manuscript the author has had in mind the needs of young men having no technical instruction who are anxious to become proficient in the art of Plumbing. As a consequence each exercise is minutely described and illustrated; so much so, perhaps, that an experienced mechanic may find it too simple for skilled hands and a mature mind. But the beginner will not find the exercises too elaborately described and will profit by careful study. Years of experience and observation have shown the author that the methods herein described are entirely practical and are in common use today.

Modern Plumbing Illustrated | by R. M. Starbuck

A comprehensive and thoroughly practical work on the modern and most approved methods of plumbing construction the standard work for plumbers, architects, builders, property owners, boards of health and plumbing examiners, and for trade classes in plumbing

Practical Up-To-Date Plumbing | by George B. Clow

The fact that plumbing during the past ten years has reached a most remarkable stage of development in the construction of improved systems of sewerage, house drains, ventilation and fixtures, is due to several causes. In the first place, the manufacturers of plumbing supplies in their pursuit of commercial supremacy have employed a number of sanitary engineers, who by experimenting and investigation, have perfected systems and fixtures which are a preventative against the dangers of sewer gas and their subsequent results, such as typhoid, scarlet fever, dysentery, etc., coming as they frequently do from no apparent cause, as far as modern science will permit...

Plumbing And Household Sanitation | by J. Pickering Putnam

Since the purpose of this course is to treat of the best and simplest method of obtaining healthy homes and to show ' by what means the utmost convenience in plumbing work may be obtained with safety and economy, no attempt will be made to describe in catalog form all the interesting appliances manufactured to-day. Indeed, it would be impossible in a small volume to do even partial justice to their almost countless numbers. Each enterprising manufacturer requires for the cataloging of his sole individual productions, a ponderous volume, sumptuous and costly enough to pay for a small king's ransom. Before long, of course, in accordance with a law of economics which allows of no exception, a very big Trust will take charge of the whole business and place the goods before the public in a simplified form. Then the consumers will constitute the stockholders and price lists will become less mysterious and more satisfactory.

House Drainage And Sanitary Plumbing | by William Paul Gerhard

The essay reproduced herein was originally prepared for the annual report of the State Board of Health of Rhode Island. It was written both for professionals and laymen. Having met with a favorable reception it was thought worth while to increase its utility by republishing it in an improved and more accessible shape. Many parts were accordingly rewritten, others were modified and omissions corrected. Such omissions, however, are sure to occur in any edition of a book, containing descriptions of modern plumbing apparatus, as new appliances are continuously invented between the time the book is written until it is printed and published.

Plumbing Problems | by The Sanitary Engineer

Or, questions, answers, and descriptions relating to house-drainage and plumbing, from the sanitary engineer. With one hundred and forty-six illustrations

Improved Plumbing Appliances | by J. Pickering Putnam

Until very lately the tendency in plumbing has been to-ward great and unnecessary complication and costliness and the result is a tendency on the part of the public to "do away with set plumbing" as far as possible. They despair of understanding the elaborate piping and fixtures, and the fear of sewer gas, added to the certainty of heavy expense, has had the effect of rendering set plumbing unpopular. A favorable reaction has, however, now set in, and the leading Sanitary Engineers and Plumbers urge greater simplicity in work, and better and more scientific fixtures...

Plumbing Estimates And Contracts | by J. J. Cosgrove

In presenting this volume to the public the author completes a set of books devoted exclusively to plumbing which covers the calling from practice to contracting. The several books included in the set are: "Principles and Practice of Plumbing," "Wrought Pipe Drainage Systems," "Sewage Purification and Disposal," Plumbing Plans and Specifications," "Plumbing Estimates and Contracts" and "History of Sanitation.

Plumbing Practice | by J. Wright Clarke

This treatise on plumbing practice contains the subject-matter of a series of papers contributed to The Engineering & Building Record, New York, in 1883-84-85-86-87. The papers are now re-arranged, and, to some extent, re-written and added to, with a view to presenting them in a more complete form. That plumbers shall command respect, and their advice be taken with implicit confidence, is most earnestly to be desired...

American Plumbing Practice

From The Engineering Record. A selected reprint of articles describing notable plumbing installations in the united states, and questions and answers on problems arising in plumbing and house drainage.

A Working Manual Of American Plumbing Practice | by William Beall Gray

Including approved fixtures, piping systems, house drainage, and modern methods of sanitation

Plumbing Plan and Specifications | by J. J. Cosgrove

Plumbing Inspection, Plumbing Plans & Specifications, Principles of Plumbing Design

Principles And Practice Of Plumbing | by S. Stevens Hellyer

If a man may be judged by his appearance, much more may a workman be judged by his tools. In these days of strong competition the man in any-trade or profession who does not provide himself with the best tools, the most efficient appliances obtainable, for executing his work expeditiously and efficiently, does himself a great injustice...

Principles And Practice Of Plumbing | by John Joseph Cosgrove

In preparing the manuscript for this book, the author's sole object has been to systematize and reduce to an exact basis, the principles that underlie the practice of plumbing. The necessity for accurate rules and formulas, instead of the empirical methods formerly employed, was often and forcibly brought home to the author when designing plumbing installations for large buildings. The scarcity of scientific information on this important branch of sanitation was quite marked. No book had ever been published that indicated the best kind of material to use for a given purpose, that told how work should be designed and installed to be perfectly sanitary, and that showed how to proportion the various parts with relation to the whole, so that a plumbing system designed and installed according to the text would give perfect service.

Sanitary Fittings And Plumbing | by G. Lister Sutcliffe

During the last quarter of a century, so many books have been written on the sanitation of buildings that there would be little need for another work on any part of the subject, were it not that sanitary science is still rapidly progressing. New discoveries and inventions are continually pressing for notice, and old problems are being solved in new ways...

Standard Practical Plumbing | R. M. Starbuck

An exhaustive treatise on all branches of plumbing construction including drainage and venting, ventilation, hot and cold water supply and circulation. The work shows the latest and best plumbing practice, special attention being given to the skilled work of the plumber, and to the theory underlying plumbing devices and operations

Questions And Answers On The Practice And Theory Of Sanitary Plumbing | by R. M. Starbuck

In presenting to the plumbing fraternity successive editions of "Questions and Answers," the author has endeavored to keep pace with the advancement that is constantly being made, and to make each edition of greater value to his readers than the preceding edition has been. The original purpose to present the subject in as concise and brief and practical a manner as possible is still followed.

The Building Code Of The City Of Boston | by Building Department

An Act Relative to the Construction, Alteration and Maintenance of Buildings in the City of Boston

Household Companion: Home Decorations

Every woman should desire her house to be as comfortable and as beautiful as her taste and means will permit. This department will be welcomed joyfully by every housewife. It shows how to make common things serve a double purpose of decoration as well as usefulness, with very little expenditure either of time or money. There are here also instructions for decorating the house suitably for various occasions, directions for doing fancy work of various kinds in leisure hours, and taking care of pet animals, plants, etc., in the house.

Household Companion: The Practical Mechanic

Mending broken furniture, windows, brick or stone work, plumbing, painting, wall paper, and the thousands of things about a house which are liable to get out of order, means money in pocket if you can do it without having to call in a high-priced mechanic. There are many men who could employ evenings in making handsome and durable pieces of furniture, and at the end of the year find themselves richer and more comfortable for it.