. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. e hastapered the lower part of a heavy table leg or given a squarebulblike effect to a post, and in more elaborate pieces treated aback rail to easy curves with correpsonding hollows, mindful, nodoubt, of things seen in his early days in Spain. The monk, as well as many another, in effecting an enclosureby gate or barrier, adopted the idea of the primitive man whofenced in his first garden from wild animal depredations by treelimbs set at intervals and criss-crossed by boughs in the inter-vening spaces as in Fig. 82, then as
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. e hastapered the lower part of a heavy table leg or given a squarebulblike effect to a post, and in more elaborate pieces treated aback rail to easy curves with correpsonding hollows, mindful, nodoubt, of things seen in his early days in Spain. The monk, as well as many another, in effecting an enclosureby gate or barrier, adopted the idea of the primitive man whofenced in his first garden from wild animal depredations by treelimbs set at intervals and criss-crossed by boughs in the inter-vening spaces as in Fig. 82, then as the nations became more re-fined the Grecian idea came prominently to the front, and todaywe use more than ever the thought which is given expression in 62 J^URNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN Fig. 83 of the illustrations. This never fails to be effective andto the point in filling space. The limb and bough idea will by a little study resolve itselfinto many simple and direct means of ornamenting panels, basesor spandrels, as noted in Fig. 84, 85 and 86. It is not treated. Fig. 82 -f^^ _i^:^_ Fig. 83
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