Wood carvers multiplied and embellished churches and palaces, the houses of the Burgomasters, the Town Halls, and the residences of wealthy citizens.
The change in the design of furniture naturally followed, for in cases where Flemish or Italian carvers were not employed, the actual execution was often by the hand of the house carpenter, who was influenced by what he saw around him.
Many other societies, guilds, and art schools have been established with more or less success, with the view of improving the design and manufacture of furniture, and providing suitable models for our young wood carvers to copy.
Renaissance to the Spanish carvers and cabinet makers.
This seems a great pity, as Flanders still possesses many stone-carvers of great skill, and the kindly hand of time would soon mellow the new work to harmonise with the old.
Closely allied to the carvers of stone were those who worked in metals and of these Tournai had its full share.
As the long nosed roadster threaded its way along Main Street the Carvers stood watching until its red tail lights faded from view.
After depositing the Carvers at their new home Updyke refused the invitation to alight, but Winifred, the bride, would not have it so, and she caught up one of his big hands and called to her husband to help her.
It saves a great deal of trouble, and prevents the shower of gravy with which awkward carverswill often inundate the table-cloth, and sometimes their neighbors.
Good carversare almost as rare as good tenor singers.
Some houses, more especially those situated near the coast and erected during the period of commercial prosperity, were built by ship carpenters and wood-carvers during dull seasons.
It was often called "cheese-like" and for this reason was preferred by wood-carvers and cabinetmakers for their art.
There is little or no doubt that the carvers of our grotesques were members of the mysterious society which has developed into the modern body of Freemasons.
But if we have yet to wait some fortunate discovery of rolls of workmen's names, with their rate of wages, we are not without such interesting information concerning the old carvers as is contained in portraits they have left of themselves.
These encrusting ornaments, by their opposition to the light of what the carvers call a "busy" surface, increase and accentuate rather than detract from the effect of the sweep of arches or dying vistas of recurring pillars.
But the masonic history of our carvers is much enveloped in error to the outside world.
Long before the last waitress was relieved, the carvers were at work, and the company was bubbling over with merriment.
His pupil Fra Giovanni da Verona was one of the most celebrated of the carvers and intarsiatori, and left works in many places in Italy.
It is very much to be desired that designers and carvers would exert their inventiveness and endeavour to break up the monotony and feebleness which characterize most frames, vide borders and photograph frames.
It is usual among carvers to begin with cutting the groove with a V tool, but it is well to prepare for this by using the tracer or wheel.
If you cannot obtain a slip exactly suited to any particular tool, then grind or cut it to shape on the grindstone or with a file; some carvers use a very coarse whetstone adapted to this purpose.
There are far too many wood-carvers who cut away under in order to make leaves thin and natural, till they are like paper, and much more fragile.
It was in this manner that the old carvers of England and their masters, the Flemings, taught their pupils.
And he should, whenever an opportunity presents itself, try to see practical carvers of all kinds at work, for in this way he will learn much which no books give.
Among professional wood-carvers the former is generally known as a firmer, in order to distinguish it from the chisel used by carpenters.
All this has to be kept in view, in any attempt to gauge the intellectual development, or determine the degree of civilisation, of the palæolithic draughtsmen and carvers of the Garonne.
As to the ivory of the narwhal and the rostungr, or walrus, it was in use by Scoto-Scandinavian carvers after the disappearance of the reindeer from Scotland.
Notice too the little masks which immortalise the features of the Lancaster men of 1340; sometimes no doubt they represent the carvers themselves.
At Ely (37) two distinct and conflicting designs are combined; to those two the Lincoln carvers gave unity (17).
Now here we have Dutch and English carvers engaged together on what was practically one work: moreover the more artistic and difficult part of the work, the figure sculpture, is entrusted to the Dutchmen.
The canopies are known to have been made in London; the carvers being Robert Ellis and John Filles, apparently Englishmen.
What had tempted us to pause a night in Astorga was the wood-carved retablo by Becerra in the Cathedral, but we found it by no means equal to the work of the carvers in Valladolid.
Valladolid was personally associated with this national development, for most of the master-carvers lived at one time or another in the city.
For instance, legend says a brotherhood of stone-carvers existed in Spires and Bamberg from the time when those cathedrals were begun.
These latter seem in old times to have been the designers of scaffoldings and makers of beams for roofing; wood-carvers and inlayers were called Maestri d'intaglio.
It is true indeed that unknown mediaeval carvers had shown an instinct for the beautiful, as well as great fertility of grotesque invention.
The ancient carvers must have realized the full importance of sculptural relief in their poorly lighted edifices.
The foreign carverssettled principally in Burgos, where there grew up around them apprentices eager to fill the churches with statues, retablos, choir stalls, and organ screens executed in wood.
It seems as if the four corners of the earth must for generations have been ransacked to find a sufficient number of carvers for the sculpture.
Primaticcio and Cellini founded a school of sculptors and wood-carvers in France, of which Jean Goujon stands pre-eminent.
Much quaint figure work, in which they greatly excelled, was used by the Flemish wood-carvers in their joinery.
After a time I am told to specialise in a comical little Roman-nosed pony; but several of the better paid carvers work up caricature images of eminent Utopians.
Every now and then, bringing with him a gust of resinous smell, a white-clad machinist will come in with a basketful of crude, unwrought little images, and will turn them out upon the table from which we carvers select them.
The little Carvers stood still, transfixed with a curious mingling of delight, excitement, and horror.
Pen turned to the two Carvers and said that she must ask permission, but she would be with them in a minute.
Carvers for my Loords Boorde, and a Servant bitwixt theym both, except thai be at their frendis fyndyng, and than ather of theym to have a Servant.
When silver fish-carvers are considered too dear to be bought, good electro-plated ones answer very well, and are inexpensive.
Some carverscut the upper side of the sirloin across, as shown by the line from 3 to 4; but this is a wasteful plan, and one not to be recommended.
A host of locksmiths, glasscutters, potters and stovemakers, bookbinders and carvers turned out in the golden age of Nuremberg work which has never received its artist's name, but which continues to delight us.
There were indeed so many carversthere towards the end of the fifteenth century that it is difficult to understand how they all gained a livelihood.
Jack and Jean were already down among the wood-carvers in the village and came back after a while with their hands full of pretty things.
There used to be very celebrated carvers of netsukes who signed them and their work is very valuable.
When they told him that I was much interested in the art and kindred industries of our people, he said that there were goldsmiths and wood-carvers there; they only needed a little directing.
Sister Roekmini must naturally go to work with them, and she sat down with the wood-carvers on a bench as naturally as though she had been there all along.
My husband thinks the idea of moving the Japara wood-carvers here excellent.
After Kartini was married her little school was continued at Rembang, and some of the wood carverswho had been working under her supervision at Semarang were anxious to follow her to her new home.
Although I am a modern woman what a strange bridal dower I shall have," she writes to Mevrouw Abendanon in discussing the plan for moving the little children she was teaching and the wood carvers to Rembang.
From an artistic point of view, the manufactures of metal are the most important products of India; the wood carvers of ancient times surpassed all rivals and still have a well-deserved reputation.
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