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Art of Letter Carving in Wood / Martin Wenham.

Summary:

The Art of Letter Carving in Wood is a thorough guide to this beautiful craft. Based on the v-cut method, it explains how to carve letters in a range of sizes, styles and different kinds of wood. The book progresses from the basic to the difficult, and from simply designing and carving letters to using them in a wide range of situations, from the purely practical and informative to the expressive and interpretative.

Record details

ISBN: 9780719840036
Physical Description: 208 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
Publisher: Ramsbury, Marlborough : The Crowood Press, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- 1. Materials, equipment and tools -- 2. Basic operations -- 3. Carving straight stems -- 4. Carving curves -- 5. Carving oblique stems and acute-angled junctions -- 6. Carving point-ends and numerals -- 7. Using your skills -- 8. A modern Roman alphabet -- 9. Spacing and adapting upper-case letters -- 10. Designing and carving a Roman lower-case alphabet -- 11. Designing and carving sloped Roman letters -- 12. Working with the grain vertical -- 13. Designing and carving italic letters -- 14. Two alternative methods of letter carving -- 15. The use of colour and surface finishes -- 16. Visible language -- Appendices -- 1. Basic alphabet -- 2. Equipment and materials suppliers -- 3. Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Index.