Wilson offers the first book on the extraordinary spectacle of America's finest firearms from the mid-1700s until today. Here in full color are exquisite engravings, gold, silver and platinum inlays, intricately carved mother-of-pearl and ivory--craftsmanship which rivals any other field of decorative arts.
Beginning with the fundamentals, master craftsman Emil F. Kronquist lists and pictures tools and explains basic techniques for cutting stock, annealing and heating, pickling, shallow hollowing, raising, planishing, bending and shaping, leveling, soldering and welding, making molds, pattern making, and chasing. He includes a series of projects for ...
The best study of Arts and Crafts-style jewelry and metalwork to date. Hundreds of beautiful pieces of jewelry are illustrated; their history, characteristics, materials, motifs, influences, and makers' marks are traced. Biographical sketches are provided for the most influential British designers/jewelers/metalworkers.
Stamping is among the most popular artistic techniques because its uses are virtually limitless. No matter what medium they work in, artists and decorators alike can use stamping to create one-of-a-kind pieces with simple techniques. This follow-up book to "The Stamp Artist's Project Book" highlights cutting edge techniques and materials used in ...
"...the metalcraft and jewelry of this overlooked and idiosyncratic artist-metalsmith ...resonates with an uncommon personal passion." - W. Scott Braznell. Janet Payne Bowles (1872/73-1948) was an Arts and Crafts jeweller and metalsmith who worked in Boston, New York, and Indianapolis and enjoyed an international reputation during her lifetime. As ...
This volume is one of several that examines the National Gallery of Art's distinguished collection of decorative arts. (The second volume will be published in 1996.) The group treated here is composed primarily of works acquired from the Widener Collection, and amplified by holdings acquired from the Kress family. Included are more than eighty ...
A discussion of the rapid tooling (RT) technologies under development and in use for the timely production of moulds and manufacturing tools. It describes applications within various leading companies and guides product and manufacturing process development groups on ways to reduce investments of money and time.
This book covers virtually every paint technique and every possible surface; the result is an eminently useful guide to decorative painting, and includes 35 projects that are easily accomplished by an amateur: fresco effects, sponging, trompe l'oeil, stencilling, marbleizing, etc.
This publication draws on sales catalogues and advertising brochures documenting the entire range of Ikora metalwork produced by WMF (Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik AG, Geislingen) from the early 1920s until the 1960s. Even during the first world war, Hugo Debach, who would later become director-general of WMF, took the initiative in having ...
Theory and Practice of Metalwork: Third editionhas been prepared to bring the book up to date and in line with modern practice. The chapter on iron and steel manufacture has been completely rewritten and the sections on brazing and soldering have been revised. A number of new diagrams and photographs have been included.
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