. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. The form is usually that of a one or two-edged Knife. As theblade does not require to be very sharp, it is generally made of thesame material as the handle, and in most cases of ivory, wood,or brass. The decoration is generally confined to the handle; the blade isat most decorated with flat enrichment. Plate 233. The Paper-Knife. 1. Modern, brass. 2—3. Modern, ivory or wood, by Dir. G. Kachel, (Gewerbehalle). 4—6. Modern, wood carving, by J. Eberhardt,
. Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use. The form is usually that of a one or two-edged Knife. As theblade does not require to be very sharp, it is generally made of thesame material as the handle, and in most cases of ivory, wood,or brass. The decoration is generally confined to the handle; the blade isat most decorated with flat enrichment. Plate 233. The Paper-Knife. 1. Modern, brass. 2—3. Modern, ivory or wood, by Dir. G. Kachel, (Gewerbehalle). 4—6. Modern, wood carving, by J. Eberhardt, Heilbronn. 7. Modern, pierced metal. The Scissors. (Plate 234.) Scissors, intended primarily for use in ladies work, and after-wards applied to a variety of other purposes, are mostly met-with intwo different fundamental forms. The earlier form (French: forces),which held its ground up to the end of the Middle Ages, has aspring hoop which unites the two blades (fig. 1). The later form(French: ciseaux), which begins to appear sporadically as early asthe 10th century, has two separate blades moveable round a central METAL OBJECTS. 403. The Paper-Knife. riate * 404 The Scissors. — The Hand-Bell. pivot, and terminating at one end in the blades and at the other inhandles with ring-shaped eyelets to receive the fingers (figs. 2, 3,5, 6). The shape is iisually symmetrical. Variations, like fig. 4, arerare. Not infrequently, the scissors are provided with a chain bymeans of which they may be suspended, either alone or with otherarricies, from a Chatelaine. The points are sometimes protected by aguard (fig. 10). The decoration is generally confined to the handles,and frequently consists of pierced work; the blades are plain, ordecorated by inlaying, &c. Where handle and blades are not of thesame metal, which in this case can only be steel, the handles areoften of brass or silver. Between these two extremes are gilt, silvered,and nickel led handles. The Renascence gratified
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