Furniture Decoration Made Easy - A Practical Work Manual for Decorating Furniture by Stenciling, Gold-Leaf Application and Freehand Painting

Charles Hallett

• Publisher: Rene Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473384620
• Print ISBN:
  9781446525517

Furniture Decoration Made Easy - A practical work manual for decorating furniture by stencilling, gold-leaf application and freehand painting. This handbook on furniture decoration is not intended as an exhaustive reference work on the history of stencilling, nor on the lives of the early artisans. The principal benefits you may obtain by a careful study of its contents are: (1) explicit instructions for the amateur, (2) short cuts we have learned by many years of decorating, (3) ideas for applying the old patterns to the vast amount of reproduction furniture easily obtainable today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Foreword
• Contents
• Chapter I Background of furniture decoration
• Chapter II Early craftsmen
• Chapter III Instructions for painting and graining old chairs or reproductions
• Chapter IV Cutting the stencil
• Chapter V Stenciling with bronze powder
• Chapter VI Striping on furniture
• Chapter VII Gold leaf—its use and application
• Chapter VIII Varnishing the furniture
• Chapter IX Twenty practical work projects with photos, instructions and work patterns
• Work Pattern 1 Yellow Thumbback Chair
• Work Pattern 2 Rosewood Grained Comb-back Boston Rocker
• Work Pattern 3 Two-Slat Hitchcock Type Chair
• Work Pattern 4 Duncan Phyfe Type Chair
• Work Pattern 5 Turtleback Hitchcock Chair
• Work Pattern 6 Horn-of-Plenty Hitchcock Chair
• Work Pattern 7 Yellow Salem Rocker
• Work Pattern 8 Stenciled Chest of Drawers
• Work Pattern 9 Rockee with Horn-of Plenty Design
• Work Pattern 10 Five Foot Settee
• Work Pattern 11 Fiddleback Chair
• Work Pattern 12 Child’s Chair
• Work Pattern 13 Old Commode
• Work Pattern 14 Sheraton Fancy Chair
• Work Pattern 15 Captain’s Chair
• Work Pattern 16 Cobbler’s Bench
• Work Pattern 17 Baltimore Hitchcock Chair
• Work Pattern 18 Decorated Swedish Dining Chair
• Work Pattern 19 Pennsylvania Balloon Chair
• Work Pattern 20 Hand-Painted Bureau
• Supplementary sheaf of patterns for Hitchcock chairs and Boston rockers
• Index