Product Description
Twenty Decorative Carving Projects In Period Styles
Learn to carve architectural and decorative deigns, found in houses from the Victorian age. This book includes projects from easy and fast, to or more challenging with a lot of detail. Each project is in historical context with a traceable pattern including dimensions, and step-by-step instructions, with photographs of the finished project. The patterns in this book are set so the beginner will start with the Celtic Cross and work up to the more challenging projects of the Great master Grinling Gibbons. By the time you've finished the more complex carvings you will have developed your skills with challenging pieces. There is so much information packed into this book with tools and wood selection and decorating with finishing touches. Each project in this book has a pattern which you can copy to full size,including step-by-step illustrations, with simple instructions you can follow. Capture the historical designs while carving these projects that you can place in your home to create a Victorian style decoration.
These are a few Projects in Twenty Decorative Carving Projects in Period Style:
- Acanthus Swirl.
- Celti Cross.
- Dolphin Tazza.
- Holker Olive Panel.
- The peacock of Riga.
- Gothic Window.
- The Dragon of Eye.
- St Ives Foilgae Panel.
- Fruit and Flower Festoon.
- Pugin Column Table.
- Chippendale Ribbon Festoon.
- Rococo Mirror Frame.
- Grinling Gibbons Foilage.
Twenty Decorative Carving Projects in Period Style Book Specifications:
- Softcover.
- 192 Pages.
- Author:Steve Bisco.
- Publisher: Fox Chapel.