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Linenfold

Fig 7.4 The grouttd leuel bas been sawn down at the sides and ends and a narrow, straight-edged cbisel is carving a channel along saw cuts which are used as a guide. Notę the sawcut in the forcground.

Another mistake somctimes madę is to assumc chat all lines drawn are cut against vcrtically. If saw curs were madc along the lines of the ridges that appear in Figurę 7.5 the design would need to be drastically altered.

The Logic of Perspective

If you take a sheec of card and curl it as in Figurę 7.7 and then stand it on end you will obscrve how the parts that are ncarest to you appear lower down. This is a rule that usually obtains with linenfold, although therc are plcnty of examples where the carvers sense of design has got the better of his sense of per$pective {see Fig 7.3).

In the vcry stylized sixteenth-cenmry and early sevenreenrh-century designs {see Fig 7.2), where the continuity of the materiał has been replaced by a simple series of vertical grooves and ridges, the top edge is carvcd into points and hollows but the bottom edge is often straighc. The older designs have a carved bottom edge but the logie of

FlG 7.5 A deep gouge caruing a deep fold. The saw cuts do not aliuays follow every linę drawn along the su>face.

FlG 7.6 A moulding piane used against a fence clamped on the wood to cut a hollow.

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