Handicrafts, Arts & Crafts
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Board-Work; or the Art of Wig-making, EtcBoard-Work; or the Art of Wig-making, Etc. - Designed For the Use of Hairdressers and Especially of Young Men in the Trade. To Which Is Added Remarks Upon Razors, Razor-sharpening, Razor Strops, & Miscellaneous Recipes, Specially Selected.The following work, which is the result of...
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The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century WilliamsburgThe Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - An Account of His Barbering, Hair-dressing, & Peruke-Making Services, & Some Remarks on Wigs of Various Styles.Richard Gamble, barber and perukemaker of Williamsburg in the middle years of the eighteenth century, appears to have remained a bachelor all...
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The Knitting BookThe Knitting BookIt is usually considered necessary to introduce works of any description, however trifling, with a few prefatory remarks. Happily the days of dedication are nearly at their close, and an author has now only to direct the attention of the reader to...
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The Blacksmith in Eighteenth-Century WilliamsburgThe Blacksmith in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - An Account of His Life & Times and of His CraftIron seemeth a simple metal, but in its nature are many mysteries, wrote Joseph Glanvill, a seventeenth-century English churchman. To the contrary, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, two centuries later,...
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The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century WilliamsburgThe Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg - Being an Account of the Nature of Leather, & of the Crafts Commonly Engaged in the Making & Using of It.Once upon a time there lived in France a poet-bureaucrat by the name of Charles Perrault, who wrote...
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My Knitting Book (Second Series)My Knitting Book (Second Series)It has been justly observed that, an art cannot be taught but by its proper terms. In the art of knitting, various terms have been employedwhether correctly, or not, it is here needless to inquireto designate the same simple process....
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The Andalusian Knitting and Netting BookThe Andalusian Knitting and Netting BookRepeat these 2 rows 20 times more, when there will be only 13 stitches; then knit 64 rows plain, always slipping the 1st stitch; this will make the bodice 25 inches round the waist, if required more or less,...
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My Crochet SamplerMy Crochet SamplerThe following pages contain a selection of patterns adapted to almost every purpose to which the art of Crochet is applicable,whether as an useful or a decorative species of work. Many of the designs have been expressly composed for this little treatise;...
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Painting by Immersion and by Compressed Air: A Practical HandbookPainting by Immersion and by Compressed Air: A Practical Handbook BRUSHING DIPPING SPRAYING FLOWING TUMBLING DRYING We specialise in all Paints, Enamels, Japans, Lacquers, Varnishes and other materials for the protection and decoration of Industrial Products of all kinds. Our clients comprise of the...
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The Stocking-Knitter's Manual: A Handy Book for the Work-TableThe Stocking-Knitter's Manual: A Handy Book for the Work-TableThese Patterns were compiled for the benefit of a friend, who had some pupils; and she having found them of service, and a saving of time, when engaged in teaching others, the writer has ventured to...
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Cigar-Box Dioramas: A "How-to-do-it" HandbookCigar-Box Dioramas: A "How-to-do-it" HandbookThe box is painted on the outside, either with any of the rubber-base (latex) paints, or with paint from a spray can. The inside of the box is given one or two coats of the black latex paint. (Other flat...
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Flat Machine Knitting and FabricsFlat Machine Knitting and FabricsWhen the City of New York established a textile school in 1919 I was asked to take charge of the class in knitting. Although very busy in manufacturing lines, I decided to give up a part of my time to...
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The Jolly Book of BoxcraftThe Jolly Book of BoxcraftThe Jolly Book of Boxcraft has been enlarged and rewritten from work started in May, 1909. This work was purchased by St. Nicholas, Little Folks, Good Housekeeping, The Congregationalist and Christian World, The Designer, Hollands Magazine, The Housekeeper, The Ladies...
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Paint & Colour MixingPaint & Colour Mixing - A practical handbook for painters, decorators and all who have to mix colours, containing 72 samples of paint of various colours, including the principal graining grounds[5] [7] Clearly the first thing to be done before studying the subject of...
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Forge WorkForge WorkTeachers of forge work generally supply their own course of instruction and arrange the exercises for practice. The necessary explanations and information are given orally, and hence often with very unsatisfactory results, as the average student is not able to retain all the...
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Seat WeavingSeat WeavingWoodworking shops in manual training schools far outnumber those for other manual activities, and as a result, courses in woodwork have come to be termed the stable courses in a handwork curriculum. However, experience in woodwork alone is not sufficient, and needs to...
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Barbers' Manual (Part 1) Text Book on Taxidermy (Part 2)Barbers' Manual (Part 1); Text Book on Taxidermy (Part 2)By way of explaining the dual character of this little book, we here indulge a few brief introductory remarks. Part First is designed simply as a manual of instruction for barbers, and we hope it...
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The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting BookThe Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book - or, Adventures Among the Knitting People[v] [vi] [vii] [viii] [ix] [x] [xi] [xii] Note.The garments described in this book will fit 12- to 16-inch dolls. It is impossible to give exact measurements, because few people crochet...
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Soldering, Brazing and WeldingSoldering, Brazing and WeldingThis handbook, which explains in detail a variety of processes common to general metalworking, has been written by a number of thoroughly practical men, by whom it was contributed in another form to Work, the illustrated weekly journal of handicrafts and...
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How to Amuse Yourself and Others: The American Girl's Handy BookHow to Amuse Yourself and Others: The American Girl's Handy BookI do wish some one would write a book like that for girls, is the remark we have frequently heard when a new book of sports for boys has made its appearance; but it...
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