. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. Settle of the Cromwell Period. Strap work, bands and borders. Not until well into the periodof the Jacobean Style—James I (1603-1625)—was there evi-dence that the carver worked for the joiner instead of the joinerbuilding frames for the carver to decorate. 12 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN The cabinet maker was then beginning to work for recogni-tion more in the excellence of his joinery and by the display ofmolded and mitered panel work, and while the general forms ofthe over-enriched and the plain are quite similar, as the Ja
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. Settle of the Cromwell Period. Strap work, bands and borders. Not until well into the periodof the Jacobean Style—James I (1603-1625)—was there evi-dence that the carver worked for the joiner instead of the joinerbuilding frames for the carver to decorate. 12 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN The cabinet maker was then beginning to work for recogni-tion more in the excellence of his joinery and by the display ofmolded and mitered panel work, and while the general forms ofthe over-enriched and the plain are quite similar, as the JacobeanStyle is reviewed and we sit back and read of the history of thetime, we are impressed that political and social conditions dohave an influence on the character of the clothes we wear andthe furniture we use, for when Cromwell became Protector heand his followers certainly would have none of the things of the. Fig. 4. court—its grandeur, extravagance, tinsel, carvings and foolish-ness—and we look into the homes of his time and see that therewas considerable modification to conform all things to the simpleand useful. Note the severely plain paneled settle in Fig. referring to the carved court cupboard in Fig. 4, theessential features of the Elizabethan are shown. There arefew surfaces of rest. Under analysis, however, the sturdy formof the structure or carcase commands attention when broughtinto comparison again with Fig. i, for example. Figs. 5 and 6 represent the character of carving employed,being much in the nature of bands or squares, the design being INFLUENCE OF ANTIQUE MODELS 13 cut into the wood much after the manner of type, with the maindetail left quite flat. Fig. 7 is a chair much in vogue during this period and is hereused to illustrate how much our village chair makers in Colonial
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