The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 21 Figure 22 of furniture were introduced from France. Sometimesthe portable presses and the chests were painted withtempera decorations, and were bound with wrought-iron clasps and hinges, which were just beginning tocome into use. The bed-clothes and personal clothing of the noblesand rich landowners began to assume a rich character,and were often embroidered. Tapestry and painted
The practical cabinet maker and furniture designer's assistant, with essays on history of furniture, taste in design, color and materials, with full explanation of the canons of good taste in furniture .. . Figure 21 Figure 22 of furniture were introduced from France. Sometimesthe portable presses and the chests were painted withtempera decorations, and were bound with wrought-iron clasps and hinges, which were just beginning tocome into use. The bed-clothes and personal clothing of the noblesand rich landowners began to assume a rich character,and were often embroidered. Tapestry and painted cloth hangings were imported;also pottery of an ornamental description was not onlyimported, but made in England at this time. All this 40 THE PRACTICAL CABINET MAKER. applies to the homes of the rich only, for the poorerclasses remained for a long period in a very primitivecondition as regards their style of houses and theirfurniture. The construction of furniture and the panelling ofchests began to exhibit some workmanlike appearancesof good carpentry. Panels wereplaced in framework that was mor-tised and fastened with woodenpegs, which became the universalmethod of panelling throughout theGothic period. Room panelingcame into use in England in theearly part of the thirteenth century,Figure 23 when pine timber was used at first for this work, but was displaced later by the more sub-stantial oak. This oak panelling during the Gothicperiods was often carved with elaborate tracery of anarchitectural character (Figs. 21, 22), and a commondesign was a carved imitation of a carefully foldedtextile, known as the linen panel (Fig. 23). Chests were used as tables, and the tops had inlaidcheckers to be used as chessboards. They were alsoused as sideboards o
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