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Every miniaturist, whether collector or craftsman, should always be concerned with the accuracy in design of each piece of miniature furniture or accessory and should be knowledgeable in combining the pieces into authentic rooms. This comprehensive book on miniatures opens with a large section on the major periods of American furniture and their characteristics: Jacobean, William and Mary, Queen Anne, Chippendale, Federal, Empire, and Victorian. Each section covers in detail interior architecture, furniture, and accessories, and is copiously illustrated with hundreds of photographs and drawings.
For the craftsman, the next section on making period furniture and accessories introduces basic requirements for getting started and general methods of working. Thirty-five specific patterns and directions follow, each giving a bill of materials, working procedures, photographs, and a schematic drawing with identifying captions. Among these projects are a Chippendale bed, a Queen Anne chair, a lacquer cabinet, a French lyre clock, a ladies' desk, a pole fire screen, a lampshade, a harp bench, and an 18th century gaming table.
For the needlework miniaturist there are 46 charted designs, each with a description, a list of symbols for colors, and a graph. There is an illustrated collection of works by well-known artists such as Eugene Kupjack, Donald Buttfield, George Hoffman, Dusty Boynton, Ernie Levy, Francis Wittemore, Dennis Hillman, Don Buckley, and many others.
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