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Title: Wallace Nutting Windsors : correct Windsor furniture.
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941
Subjects: Furniture--Catalogs Decoration and ornament--Windsor style--Catalogs Trade catalogs--Furniture Trade catalogs--Decoration and ornament--Windsor style
Publisher: The Company, Saugus Center, Mass.
Contributing Library: Winterthur Museum Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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brought under his eye alikely hickory sapling. He would cut it andas he went along would come to a post and railfence separating the fields. Sticking one end ofhis sapling into a fence post hole he wouldspring around the other end and place in thenext or the second hole according to the size ofthe bow required, and leave it for an indefinitetime. When he passed that way again he took away his chair bow, or hoop, or rake bow,firmly shaped and seasoned — all by the al-chemy of the wind and sun — natures ready-to-use steam box and form and dry house! Many woods may be bent when green. Aftersteam is forced into the grain the wool quicklytakes on all the properties of seasoned wood anddries rapidly. Bent wood is excellent for all si irl Sof work provided only it is solidly set into otherwood at joints. The Austrian work attached 1 lybolts soon works loose and becomes useless. The use of bent wood is a wide subject whichhas been honored by separate volumes treatingof it exclusively. 36:
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No. 303 No. 303. Small Braced Bow-back, Rhode Island Leg This dainty light chair was for a lady, as the seat is smaller than the average.This variant of the leg turning was popular in Rhode Island. No. 316 Like the above but with larger seat.(37) No. 310 No. 310. Light Fan-back,Plain Ear Sometimes the plain, or even thecarved ear is called a horn-backchair. This piece differs in this re-spect only from the large pictureopposite. No. 325. Light, Plain Fan-back, Braced This piece differs from the preced-ing only in having bracing spindles. No. 326. Fan-back, Braced This is the large chair oppositewith the addition of the braces. Weregard it as the handsomest side ofall Windsors. Other Windsor Variants Odd Windsors have been foundwith a kind of stump (pumble, stub,or blunt Dutch) foot in front. Others, in the writing-arm style,have been discovered with a swivelseat. This, however, seems a tipsyand unnecessary arrangement, as awriting chair should be as stable as possible. Windsors are se

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