Excerpt from The Modern Wood Finisher: A Practical Treatise on Wood Finishing in All Its Branches Why not an art? If to take a commonplace thing and by skill render it beautiful to look upon constitutes art in other lines, why not in this? A piece Of wood finished in the highest degree of polish attainable is a thing of beauty, fully as much so as a great deal of the stuff that goes as art under the high-sounding name of water or oil colors, etchings, pastel work, etc., and is received and accepted under that name by a ...
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Excerpt from The Modern Wood Finisher: A Practical Treatise on Wood Finishing in All Its Branches Why not an art? If to take a commonplace thing and by skill render it beautiful to look upon constitutes art in other lines, why not in this? A piece Of wood finished in the highest degree of polish attainable is a thing of beauty, fully as much so as a great deal of the stuff that goes as art under the high-sounding name of water or oil colors, etchings, pastel work, etc., and is received and accepted under that name by a long-suffering public. Certainly the highly finished piece of hardwood has required as neat, as careful, and as dexterous handling to produce it, and in most cases as much intelligence, technical knowl edge and love of the beautiful on the part of the producer as the average production of the so-called artist has. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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