Series editors' preface - Wood Tools

Contents
Series editors’ preface xix
Contributors xxi
Acknowledgements xxv
Illustration acknowledgements xxvii
PART 1 HISTORY
1 Furniture history 3
1.1 Introduction 3
1.2 Earliest times to the Middle Ages 3
1.2.1 Egypt 3
1.2.2 Greece 4
1.2.3 Rome
1.2.4 Byzantium and the
5
Romanesque period 5
1.3 Medieval 6
Background 6
Functional types 6
Design and construction 7
Materials used 8
Tools and techniques 8
Surface decoration and finish 8
Organization of the trade 9
1.4 Renaissance to Industrial
Revolution 9
1.4.1 1500–1600 9
Background 9
Functional types 9
Design and construction 10
Materials used 11
Tools and techniques
Surface decoration and
11
finish 11
Organization of the trade 12
1.4.2 1600–1700 12
Background 12
Functional types 13
Design and construction 14
Materials used 16
Trade practice, tools and
techniques 16
Surface decoration and
finish 18
1.4.3 1700–1800 20
Background 20
Functional types 20
Design and construction 21
Materials used 23
Tools and techniques of
conversion and
construction 24
Surface decoration and
finish 25
Organization of trades 26
1.5 The nineteenth century 26
Background 26
Functional types 28
Style and type of
construction 29
Materials used 30
Tools and techniques 31
Surface decoration and
finish 33
Organization of trades
and manufacturing 34
1.6 The twentieth century 35
Context 35
Materials used 37
Tools and techniques of
conversion and
construction 40
Surface decoration and
finish 40
Organization of trades
and manufacturing 41
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